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November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Day 1 / Question 1 of the Writehive mentor ama! I’ll be updating with new questions and answers over the next couple of days.

More information is on the site here: writehive.org/writehive-me...
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Hi! I’m a #HiveMentor once again this year and excited to participate. Last time I was incredibly privileged to get to know two fantastic writers, and I hope to be lucky again 🤓

Do check out this programme as there are many wonderful folks participating, covering trad and indie and hybrid and more.
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta
A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive. Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place. But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood. As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.
October 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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English people, back me up
“In England, a booster shot is spelled borchestershire shot”
August 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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This isn’t love. This is a real life Narcissus falling for their own digital reflection, and now there’s entire communities of them reinforcing each others’ insanity and self absorption

“AI husband” smh 🙄
August 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Unironically posted in r/republican

The list of countries had me wheezing 🤣 these absolute spoons
Nobel peace prize image
August 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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I will never get tired of that “cover to be revealed” graphic, it’s unreasonably exciting and mysterious.

UK reviewers, if you’d love an arc, please reach out! Priority for physical and audio will be given to folks who have accessibility needs for certain formats ❤️

#advancedreadingcopy
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters comes a dark fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong that combines ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive. When Mercy Chan washed up on the shores of Hong Kong with no family, no money, and no memories, she was thrust into the horrors of World War II. She survived by hiding in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the end of the war, she has rebuilt her life and found work with the local triad as a ghost-talker, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place. These days, the alleyways of Kowloon feel like home. But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost has infested Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood. As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realize that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making. Thirty-three years before, mere days ahead of the Japanese invasion, Sung Siu Yin and her mother flee Hong Kong, intending to hide out on her mother's ancestral island home. It’s beautiful, tranquil, and remote… but also inhabited by ghosts ever since the entire village drowned in a storm many years ago. Still, it’s better than living under occupation. But as the war drags on and isolation sets in, Siu Yin is increasingly drawn into the island's grim past—a past that may still have a hold on the present. There is a darkness lurking beneath that idyllic ocean, and it has been waiting many years for someone to return.
August 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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wow okay just call me out like that
Comic headline says: how my husband when he’s alone, versus how I eat when I’m alone. Image shows a man making healthy soup and salad from scratch while the woman eats toast over the sink
June 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I asked in a DIY group if dress rental was a thing in the UK, since the resale value of wedding gowns isn't great. Rental is common in East Asia / SEA for precisely that reason.

Felt like this reply was lowkey rude or racist? Wdym all "asians" (which? kind??) wear dresses that fit badly 🤨 Girl what
"Asians wear dresses whether they’re to long or they fit badly, here people want perfection and unfortunately no bridal gown ever fits properly they all need a nip and a tuck here or there."
June 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Repost with a pic and your age.

Recently turned 5 😎
Black and Tan dachshund lying in the sun
April 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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whew
Op: tariffs will finally bring prices down like the iPhone. And Samsung phone 1-2k dollars is ridiculous. Reply: apologies for the very personal question but were you homeschooled by a pigeon?
April 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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"Readers"

By Geoff hattersley
I have readers, they add up To twenty, and I know at least Five women who’re half impressed. Think of this: showing a book By a friend to your mother Your mother in the apron and slippers. "He reminds me of you," she says, Tossing the book aside, “barmy.” It can take years to get this far, years.
March 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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In this week's episode of Writers Are Deranged:

there is a woman who posts the same excerpt over and over in fb writer groups, asking for feedback.

She doesn't make changes, though. She's just harvesting responses so that she can mock her critics in a compilation, which she publishes as a book
A book cover that reads “I’ve listened now I speak” as its title A lengthy book blurb in which a woman explains why she fishes for, and compiles, various critiques of excerpts she chose to post but disagreed with
March 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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how your email finds me
Cobel asking How are you? While Mark replies oh my God, so good. A reference tk a sarcastic scene in severance season 2
March 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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On Being A Writer, by Clementine Radics
On Being a Writer Look at us, smiling with all our teeth out. Suffering so bravely in the spotlight, spilling blood on the page. Behind the curtain someone is bleeding. There is dust on the floor. You can smell the mold.
March 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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boardgame hour
Complicated boardgame spread out on a table
March 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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The Narrow Path, by Anthony deMello
THE NARROW PATH God warned the people of an earthquake that would swallow all the waters of the land. The water that would take their place would make everyone crazy. Only the prophet took God seriously. He carried huge jugs of water to his mountain cave so that he had enough till the day he died. Sure enough, the earthquake came and the water vanished and new water filled the streams and lakes and rivers and ponds. A few months later the prophet came down to the plains to see what had happened. Everyone had indeed gone mad. They and would have nothing to do with him and were convinced that he was insane. So the prophet went back to his mountain cave, glad for the water he had saved. But as time went by he found his loneliness unbearable. He yearned for human company, so he went down to the planes again. Again he was rejected by the people for he was so entirely different from them. The prophet then took his decision. He threw away the water he had saved, drank the new water and joined his fellow men in their madness. When you seek for Truth you walk alone. The path is too narrow for company. Who can bear such loneliness? Anthony deMello. The Song of the Bird.
March 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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nah, I get to wear the warlord helmet in this relationship
Ladies, it's time to start thinking whether the guy you're dating has post apocalyptic warlord potential
February 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Every week I read the guardian PMQS snap verdict to cheer myself up.

However glum I'm feeling, at least I'm not Badenoch on a Wednesday morning.
PMQs - snap verdict It is always good to be charitable in life and so, for reasons to be explained in a moment, it is worth pointing out that that was not quite as bad for Kemi Badenoch as it looked. But that’s little consolation, because it looked dire. Possibly her worst yet. As expected, Badenoch started by asking about the Telegraph splash. This is what she said:
February 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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help him
Poster purporting to show a man who has aged 60 years in the last week. Number is included to call him.
February 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Brits will live in a town like this and then stumble over my name
Street sign that says Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth / please drive safely
February 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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in Vandermeer's Southern Reach novels, the people who are trapped in Area X choose to hyperfocus on tiny insignificant things for their survival. Otherwise the vast cosmic horror will send them insane and consume them

anyway check out this tiny cute sand bubbler crab, decorating his wee home
A white, pea sized crab on pale sand
February 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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asking the tough questions
Street food stall sign in a mix of English and Chinese, offering pork buns, with the English tagline "Why so fucking yummy?"
January 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM