This month's @adaptationtoday.bsky.social podcast episode is basically an excuse for me to geek out over @emmawbooks.bsky.social's work in historical fiction. As always, @reraddatz.bsky.social is thoughtful and insightful! Listen on Apple podcasts or Spotify.
This is Mr Darcy. His grown up feathers are now all in, and his outside abode is under construction. Tomorrow, his pond is being constructed and then he will be outside with his buddies all day every day. For now, please appreciate his smouldering good looks.
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Amazing review of my new book, Mercy! 😍
Mary, Queen of the Forty! London 1895.
Desperate to catch the Queen of The Forty Thieves, D.S. Grey pursues Mary Carr, leader of an all-female gang, whose reputation and beauty is famous all over London.
Someone, somewhere, must have a grudge against her.
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Amazing review of my new book, Mercy! 😍
A huge thank you to all the speakers and attendees for their talks, insightful comments, and relevant issues raised.
We've heard from researchers, like @drgbain.bsky.social, and practitioners, like @emmawbooks.bsky.social
And a special thank you to my co-organiser, @lizzieseal.bsky.social 👏👏👏
A fantastic day filled with really valuable and interesting talks. An absolute pleasure to have been involved.
Susannah Stapleton book event with Prosecco! This book is based on such an interesting case, you have to read it! @susannahstapleton.bsky.social
Animal charity asks for help after baby surge
#Shropshire
🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...
#poem #poet #poetry #writingcommunity
Susannah Stapleton book event with Prosecco! This book is based on such an interesting case, you have to read it! @susannahstapleton.bsky.social
Bookmail! Literally arrived in this morning’s post and I thought I’d have a quick flick through with my coffee. Now I’m 49 pages in already and I’m hooked! Met James last week and had to read his book! @jameshannah.bsky.social
Thought I’d reintroduce myself as I’ve been quiet recently! I’m the author of three books. My fourth comes out at the end of July, Mercy, about a woman arrested for murder in 1948. I give talks about the historical research I do. And I’m the co-founder of @oncreativewriting.bsky.social!
1895, London.
Desperate to catch the Queen of The Forty Thieves, D.S. Grey pursues Mary Carr, whose reputation and beauty is famous all over London.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️“A wonderfully immersive read.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️“Woodhouse writes with great respect and empathy for her subjects.”
amzn.eu/d/ii9GyrJ
1895, London.
Desperate to catch the Queen of The Forty Thieves, D.S. Grey pursues Mary Carr, whose reputation and beauty is famous all over London.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️“A wonderfully immersive read.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️“Woodhouse writes with great respect and empathy for her subjects.”
amzn.eu/d/ii9GyrJ
#poem #poet #poetry #writingcommunity
a favourite writing spot in a library with a view of trees
archival research in special collections at John Rylands
the poster for #HistFicMay credited to StomperMcEwan.com
Great seeing all the posts for #HistFicMay - so a belated entry. Day 1 intro - hello! I'm a big reader of historical fiction (got the bug aged 7 reading Rosemary Sutcliff) & love archival research. Spent 3 years in the RNA's fabulous New Writers' Scheme. Still a beginner...
#HistFicMay day 2 introduce your writing - I love researching & writing about 19th/20th century U.S. history. My first novella The Anarchist's Wife was about the 1920s Sacco-Vanzetti case in Massachusetts. At the moment, I'm doing a short story course about gothic fiction.
Writers, are you concerned about generative artificial intelligence taking away your work and/or future opportunities? If so, #AI pro Paul Dettmann has a message you'll be happy to read!
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/author-paul-dettmann-crime-guy-gen-ai-not-threat-to-writers
Check out the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to listen to me talk with Griffin & Giller Prize winning poet @toluini.bsky.social about bonsai trimming, the afterlife of landfill diapers, & his stunning new collection, Unravel (McClelland & Stewart, 2025)
newbooksnetwork.com/unravel
#poetry
Canadian writers nominated for $10K Literary Award best debut short story collection: Perfect Little Angels, Vincent Anioke; Coexistence, Billy-Ray Belcourt; Death by a Thousand Cuts, Shashi Bhat; Code Noir, Canisia Lubrin; and Smoke, Nicola Winstanley.
https://tinyurl.com/mwxkkjwm
Roland Barthes once said that one a book is written the author's biography can be ignored. But author Claire Dederer says this isn't so easy.
https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/can-you-really-love-the-art-without-loving-the-artist/
Two researchers tell MIT that humans need to start thinking of AI as normal. Isn't normal highly subjective, and doesn't this really depend on the role the AI is fulfilling and what it's doing? #AI
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/29/1115928/is-ai-normal/amp/
A visual meditation. A poetic new exhibition of dreamlike black and white images captures Japan’s contemplative beauty, from lonely Torii gates to sprawling temple trees.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/apr/29/a-form-of-meditation-a-photographic-haiku-to-japan-in-pictures
Love and Need - a book for those who choose to follow poet Robert Frost into “those dark trees, / So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze.”
https://thepointmag.com/criticism/the-way-to-a-poem/
Guys! It’s me!
Mary , Queen of the Forty is on a price promo at the moment! 12% off on Amazon!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ on Amazon and Goodreads!
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Meet Margaret Catchpole, a horse-stealing, prison-breaking badass.
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