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Tessa Barrie
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Yorkshire-born, one-quarter Greek writer growing old disgracefully in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK, who believes that however dark a story gets, a subtle sprinkling of humour is essential.
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dreenawriting.co.uk
This is exciting! This Sept, I’m teaching an online workshop for WestWord, on celebrating ‘the ordinary’ in hist fict. At just £10, it’s a bargain! Book below and join me, why don’t you? It’s going to be great fun.
🗝️’ I gyve until my wife my second best bed.’ 📜

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Buy tickets – I Gyve Unto My Wife My Second Best Bed” – Celebrating the ‘Ordinary’ in Historical Fiction – Zoom
History may be written by the victors, but the most captivating stories often lie in the forgotten corners of everyday life. Wh...
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August 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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DJ Lily's #music of the day

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Nena's 99 red balloons
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August 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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As part of the blog tour for murder mystery, The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook, I have a guest post by author @tessabarrie.bsky.social to share

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#booksky 💙📚
#mysterylovers
#bookblogger
The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook - Tessa Barrie | Blog Tour Author Post | @TessaBarrie @rararesources - My Reading Corner
The remote village of Didsbrook is thrown into turmoil after its best-known resident, the former actress turned best-selling novelist Jocelyn Robertshaw, is found dead under mysterious circumstances. ...
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August 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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dreenawriting.co.uk
Read my review of @tessabarrie.bsky.social ‘s new release, The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook. 📚⬇️

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Dreena Collins's review of The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook
5/5: The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Disbrook begins as a light-hearted murder mystery with a classic feel. Set in a picturesque English countryside village populated by the arty, wealthy, quintess...
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July 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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dreenawriting.co.uk
What a great weekend! Folky open-mic yesterday, @tessabarrie.bsky.social ‘s book launch today, and lionesses this evening. Plus roast spuds. What more could you ask for? ☺️📖🏆🥔
July 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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On the blog today is my book list of all the books that I want to read in August 💙📚

#authors @alexandraweston.bsky.social @claremarchant.bsky.social @tessabarrie.bsky.social @ericsilberstein.bsky.social @janeloftus.bsky.social and more
Books I Want to Read in August 2025
Left on the Shelf Book Blog Book Reviews Book Information Recommendations Writing Reading Books for Children Books for Adults Books for Teens Fiction
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August 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
tessabarrie.bsky.social
Exciting times! Available on Amazon from midday next Tuesday, July 1st. #bookrelease #quirky #characterdiven #murdermystery
June 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Why #bookreviews are so important to #indieauthors.

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WHY BOOK REVIEWS MATTER
When I published my debut novel, Just Say It, I knew absolutely nothing about marketing and promoting a book, so I learned as I went along, relying heavily on tips and advice from other Indie authors.
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June 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I have been home for three days, and yet my Hay Experience 2025 is still very much alive and buzzing in my head, and will be for some time to come. #hayfestival tessabarrie.com/f/still-zing...
Still Zingin' after my Hay Experience 2025
My first Hay Festival experience was thirty years ago. We went for two consecutive years, and the sessions that have stayed with me for all these years were Harold Pinter and Helen Fielding. Why I've ...
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June 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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The countdown to the launch has just begun! #Quirky #murdermystery #launch #comingsoon #preorder
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The Countdown to the Launch of 'The Doyenne’ has begun!
In the meantime, here is an insight into the historic (and fictional 😏) village of Didsbrook.
https://tessabarrie.com/f/the-countdown-to-the-launch-of-the-doyenne’-has-begun
June 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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he eBook is now available to pre-order on Amazon at the special price of 99p/99c until the big release day on 1st July 2025. shorturl.at/WWIhz #BookLaunch #quirky #MurderMysteryNovel #preordernow shorturl.at/upApV
May 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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At the end of 2024, after weeks and months of submissions, I was offered two book deals for The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook, but unfortunately, I have had to change direction. Click here to find out more. tessabarrie.com/f/may-2025-n...
MAY 2025 NEWSLETTER - CHANGE OF DIRECTION
At the end of 2024, after weeks and months of submissions, I was offered two book deals for The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook. I opted to sign with SpellBound Books UK, with a publication d...
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May 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Okay, here's a cheeky little teaser for 'The Doyenne' for you on a Wednesday morning.
April 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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PoetryPalooza 2025 April 12–14!
Get indie poetry eBooks for $0.99–$1.99 + enter to win a $15 or $20 Bookshop.org gift card! (two winners) ($20 gift card donated by Elizabeth Michaud)
🛒 More info + giveaway entry: www.vwpublishing.com/poetrypalooza
#PoetryPalooza #IndiePoet #PoetryMonth
April 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
tessabarrie.bsky.social
Don't forget the eBook is only .99 throughout the whole of April. Grab your copy now!😊#JustSayIt #99p #FamilySaga #bargain
April 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
Wana hang out with YA, LGBTQIA+ found family striving to make a world of monsters, magic, mystery & mayhem better?

My enby, aro-ace, AuDHD led Ruarnon Trilogy is now on

Itch elise-carlson.itch.io

DriveThru Fic bit.ly/RuarnonTrilogy

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🌈📚 #FantasyBooks #BookSky
Title: Ruarnon Trilogy Background: Eastern Ocean Umarinaris Map Left island (north to south): North Lands, Zaldean Realm, castles marking governor's castles locations throughout. Death Belt Desert. Urai Jungle southwest, Tarlah (Ruarnon's home) southeast. Cauldron Island (mountain bordered, natural harbour) east of Tarlah. Small ink, looking sketched sailing ship in southern ocean. Foreground: all 3 Ruarnon Trilogy covers in black ereader frames in a row. Manipulator's War Cover Left: portrait of young Heir Ruarnon, their hair braided back, eyes outlined with kohl, wearing fitted bronze armour, a bronze disc kilt, holding a helmet in their left hand and leaning on a spear with their right, which pierces the ‘A’ in the title. Right: Red glyphs outline a stone archway, through which fire arrows rain down on torch-lit battlements atop a castle, at night time. Bottom text: Elise Carlson, Ruarnon Trilogy Book 1 Secrets of the Sorcery War Blue glyphs in a stone arch frame a pair of tall cliffs, a ship sailing on bright blue water through the gap, into the sunshine of a natural harbour. Bottom text: Elise Carlson, Ruarnon Trilogy Book 2 War in Sorcery's Shadow Purple glyphs around a stone arch in a stone wall, through which blackened clouds, with grey, lightening pronged edges loom over a many brown towers castle. Lightning crashes against and partially reveals a magic dome shield around the castle. Desolate hills and dray plains life before it, with leafless, dried-up trees and a skull in the foreground. Bottom text: Elise Carlson, Ruarnon Trilogy Book 3
March 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
tessabarrie.bsky.social
So, if I intermittently go silent on social media over the forthcoming weeks, it doesn't mean I am staring at the computer screen twiddling my thumbs. It means I am pouring everything into making my two outstanding projects as successful as possible. No half-measures for my book babies!
April 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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A new blog post is up about creating settings @ tessabarrie.com/f/creating-n...
April 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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On April 10, indie bookstore Sleepy Dog Books of Mt. Pleasant, MI. will host a reading/signing for my #gothic #horror, The Dance of Rotten Sticks.

I’m sure most #booksky 💙📚 folks can’t attend, but you can still support Sleepy Dog (and me) by buying the #book here:

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The Dance of Rotten Sticks
Check out The Dance of Rotten Sticks - <i>The Dance of Rotten Sticks</i> tells the story of Isaac Fletcher, a recent widower struggling to raise three kids after losing his wife to a bizarre car accid...
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March 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Looking through my site for something completely different I rediscovered the kind words #EMPowell wrote in #InternationalThrillerWriters magazine about my contemporary thriller "Double Identity".
"slick and sophisticated action-packed read" Wow!
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March 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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#positivevibes #happyfridayeveryone
I woke up this morning, not to sunshine, but with an overwhelming positivity that I would finish "Freya's Story" by the end of April. While writing it, I have been so out of my comfort zone, but I have enjoyed every minute.
March 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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I will always have a soft spot for my firstborn book baby!
March 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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My kids books If I Were Invisible ... and The Palm Tree Swingers Island Band

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99c/p till 31st March

#kidlit
March 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Kemet somehow controls the most powerful weapon known anywhere. Using it, an evil the Ancients unleashed may provoke Armageddon. Will the Chosen of the Gods stop it—or, while trying to, unwittingly, end all life? amazon.com/dp/B0CJ66JGK9
#vampires #SFF #darkfantasy #WritingCommunity#booksky 📚💙
March 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
tessabarrie.bsky.social
My firstborn novel will always have a place in my heart. #JustSayIt #videotrailer #bittersweet #FamilySaga #motheranddaughter #dysfunctionalfamily
March 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM