William Hussey JERICHO’S DEAD out now!
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ICYMI! A vote for KILLING JERICHO - crime fiction's first EVER Traveller detective - in the
#Theakston
Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024 would mean the absolute world! Because representation really does matter 🕵️♀️🎪🏳️🌈🔪
🚨I am THRILLED to announce that KILLING JERICHO is longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024!
Voting is now OPEN - please give crime fiction’s first Traveller detective a vote here! 🕵️♂️🎡🎪
#TheakstonsCrime
#TheakstonsAwards
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After 16 years as a carer (9 for Mum, then 7 for Dad), I keep have these strange spikes of anxiety. I keep feeling I should be doing something - checking meds, cleaning, washing clothes, cooking, preparing for appointments. But there's nothing now.
There's no one left to care for
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An actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it… GIFs Only…. Go
An actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it… GIFs Only…. Go
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If you’d told a 10-year-old Traveller kid, who was publicly ridiculed at school for his ‘backwards spelling and shameful English’, that his love of writing stories would prove a cruel teacher wrong, and I’d end up a published author at the Cheltenham Literature Festival…
Well 🤯
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I got my heart scan results! My replacement valve is stable! Now I can get on with life without worrying for a few months 💔❤️🩹❤️
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RIP the best Dad anyone could have wished for.
A kind, clever, funny, gentle man who everyone loved and never had an unkind word for anyone.
It was the honour of my life to look after you as best I could these past few years.
A showman’s showman to his fingertips.
Rest well xx
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‘B-b-b-but Emma Watson owes her career to-’
No. Because someone once gave you a job, that doesn’t mean you must enslave your conscience, your integrity, your very soul to that person.
That idea is utterly despicable.
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Do you ever find grief bowling out of nowhere and knocking you breathless?
It’s 7 years since we lost Mum, but I was just taking the washing in and I had this rush of loss that took my breath away.
I don’t think you ever stop grieving. Not really.
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So Chris and I just got a disgusted look from a couple simply because we’re lying together on a big lounger around the pool.
All we’re doing is lying here like everyone else. Just, y’know, existing.
No to homophobia during
#pridemonth
or EVER!
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Just seen a Tory MP practically crying for his colleagues’ fate and wondering how they will pay their mortgages if they’re ousted.
Good.
Now you know how we feel. Not nice, is it?
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Anyone who grew up under Section 28, do you remember people being open about their sexuality at school?
Nope, me neither.
What I do remember is the misplaced guilt and shame that led to self-harm and a dear friend’s suicide.
All the work of folk like Heather
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To the nasty person who bravely sent an anonymous message questioning my commitment to looking after Dad after my night out last night:
Arrangements were put in place. He wasn’t just left alone. After several days caring, I was allowed an evening off.
Carers are allowed a life.
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‘The Conservative party will drift into authoritarianism and I cannot stand idly by while that happens’ says Steve Baker MP about Covid restrictions.
The same Steve Baker who voted for The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - a law that would make a dictator blush
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Does ANYONE refer to this thing as 'X'? I said it once and I felt inexplicably embarrassed. It just feels so absurdly childish. It's still Twitter, right?
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God, family are on fire today!
My cousin: Why don't you and Chris have a holiday in Dubai? We just got back and loved it.
Me: Um, because we'd be immediately arrested and possibly executed.
Cousin: Oh, I'm sue that's not true. They were very friendly to us.
Me:
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🧵Funny thing with modern society. It’s like you’re allowed a window of grief and then expected to be ok and get on with life as normal.
The reality is when losing a loved one, society actually insists you immediately become buried under admin - sort the death certificate,
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Just seen a suggestion on BBC Breakfast that librarians could be employed to fill gaps in the care system during
#coronavirus
because they are 'trained professionals'. Don't remember them being valued in this way during austerity when govt said any volunteer could run
#libraries
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Dad memory. When he took me to see Jeremy Brett - THE Sherlock Holmes - in a theatre play about the great man. Mum had already secretly written, saying I was a huge fan, and Brett invited us both back stage for a visit. He had ‘the delightful Marilyn’s letter’ pinned to
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When younger gay men arrogantly disrespect elder gay men in my hearing, they get told where to park their attitude.
I’d imagine the group of three who were rude to the gentleman in Soho last night are still reeling a bit from the telling off they received. 😡
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A tower of my published books so far! That’s over 3,000 pages. Not bad for a kid who failed his grammar school entrance exam and was told at 12 that he was ‘too thick to ever be a writer’. Truth is, you don’t need to go to some fancy school or be from a posh background - 1/2
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I should make clear: I and other visiting authors have recently had experiences of being asked to censor our LGBT focused presentations. I have also spoken to a librarian who quietly dismantled their LGBT book display because of ‘quiet pressure from above’
This is happening NOW
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I just had occasion to reflect how kind Suzy Izzard was to me when I met her back in the 90s. I was a scared and lonely closeted gay uni student and she was signing autographs after a gig at Bristol uni. I confided my identity to her and she gave me a hug and told me I would 1/2
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Hoping to get my full heart scan results this week. I know my replacement valve is leaking and my exhaustion levels have been quite bad, but still praying that doesn’t mean open heart surgery again in the next 12 months.
Keep those fingers crossed for me!
I wanna keep smiling!
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So guys, what do we think of the beard so far? A way to grow yet but the fella really likes it - and yes, I’m going for the gay lumberjack look 😂
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My nephew Jackson has lots of complex needs, yet he sat down and followed a YouTube tutorial and produced this amazing drawing!
Any book illustrators out there, can you send some encouragement to Jackson that I can pass on?
It would mean the world to him!
Proud uncle x
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Very happy! I have the BEST boyfriend xxx
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I swear, society and govt will not allow you to catch your breath after you lose a loved one.
I've never dealt with so much admin in my life. The indiffrent, bureaucratic tidying away of a person's life is remorseless.
When are you allowed a moment to grieve?
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We kept Dad’s Christmas Day seat for him yesterday, with his stick and coffee cup. Miss you, Dad xxx
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BIG NEWS CONFIRMED!!
‘Brilliantly fresh, beautifully dark, utterly unique’
Brokered by my amazing agent Veronique Baxter at David Higham Assiciates, brilliant commissioning editor Ben Willis has acquired my debut adult thriller in a 3 BOOK DEAL!
This will feature 1/
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I only wish a frightened boy who cried himself to sleep most nights had had this in his life.
Such a moving moment from John and Johannes. We adore the Shape of their Rumba 💖
#Strictly
@jojo_Radebe
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17 years as a carer and I think I'm approaching complete burnout. I just snapped at my Dad and I hate myself for it. But I'm trying to edit my book, earn a living, & look after someone with constant needs. I could slap myself for saying a mean thing to him. It's had me tears
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We connected over Instagram, were supports for each other during our health crisises and life-saving surgeries, became best friends for three years, shared all thoughts, fears and hopes for the future.
And fell in love
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Are the press really suggesting Peter Phillips is walking between Harry & William because they might... what? Start brawling over the coffin? I know the Windsors are probably the most dysfunctional family in the UK, but I don't think they'd Jeremy Kyle it up on national TV
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To celebrate the publication of the KILLING JERICHO paperback, I’m giving away a SIGNED & DEDICATED copy of the hardback!
Open only for the next 24 hrs. To enter simply follow me, like & retweet this post!
Winner limited to UK only - announced tomorrow at 7pm!
#KillingJericho
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If you still have your Mum - and if she’s positive presence in your life - hug her for me.
I’m missing mine terribly. It’s 7 years today since we lost the brightest, kindest light in our lives to such a cruel death. She didn’t deserve one second of her pain.
Our last photo
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💔BROKEN HEARTS & ZOMBIE PARTS GIVEAWAY💔
I still have a small number of BHZP proofs to
#giveaway
before the book is released on 11 May! If you would like a signed copy please follow me, like, and share this post and I will select winners from the entrants! UK only
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I'd love to see a new TV adaptation of Margery Allingham's enigmatic Golden Age detective Albert Campion. I'd cast Matt Smith!
Which classic, neglected detective would you like to see reintroduced to a modern audience?
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Pic of me and Dad from a couple of years back. Happier times.
But even in the 7 years while I was his fulltime carer and his health was failing so badly, we had some good laughs too.
Sleep well, my Showman legend 🎡🎪🎠
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Just burst into tears in middle of Tesco. I asked a lady if she could help me (because I’m clueless) find the right sanitary products for the local Ukraine donation.
She then found me later and had bought loads of stuff to add to my trolley. She just patted my hand & walked away
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The greatest storyteller I ever knew died this month.
He was my Dad. A Showman who barely attended school & couldn’t read or write much at all.
Yet he could hold you spellbound with a tale & make you laugh until your sides ached.
I learned much of my craft from him. My dear Dad
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Does this sound selfish: I’ve now been a carer, first for my late Mum until she passed in 2016, then my Dad when he had his major stroke in 2017. That’s over a decade of hospitals and doctor’s appointments and looking after others. And I’m just so, so bloody tired.
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Spending the night at hospital with Dad. He’s fighting hard but has double pneumonia and the doctors have suggested we stay by his side.
Thanks to everyone for their kind wishes and prayers xxx
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@sacha_coward
Just had a TERF on FB tearing apart the brilliant Pride article my goddaughter wrote for her school. It’s amazing how these people claim to be so concerned about kids but have no issue being vicious to a young girl.
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Today: only gay guy on an entirely straight stag do! Pray for me 🤣
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be all right and I was fine just the way I was. This was years before I told my family and I was just so appreciative of that moment of warmth and kindness.
I’m sure she doesn’t remember this but I will never forget it.
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We miss you so much Dad.
A Showman legend from boyhood to his dying day.
A self-made man, born with nothing who, through 70 years hard graft, made his fortune and took the best care of his family.
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Can I suggest a new law? Ghostwriters must have their name prominently displayed on all celebrity ‘authored’ books. Give us hacks a fighting chance to keep the measly bit of crust we currently bust a gut to earn.
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He fought through the night and is still with us. My sister has taken over now so I’m heading home for a few hours sleep. Thanks for all the love and kindness xxx
Spending the night at hospital with Dad. He’s fighting hard but has double pneumonia and the doctors have suggested we stay by his side.
Thanks to everyone for their kind wishes and prayers xxx
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Will be signing for a bit. Poor Dad isn’t doing well.
Thanks for all the kind words and prayers. They meant the world xxx
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for the heartbroken to catch a breath, let alone begin to heal
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Being a carer is hard.
It’s pretty much broken me tonight and, after 12 years, I’m not sure I can do it anymore.
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Ok. So this has blown me away! When I was a shy (what?! I was!) and closeted-to-my-family 20-something living in London, I’d pop into the iconic Gay’s The Word regularly. I was too shy to chat to anyone then, but I loved the place. To think that one day my book would appear 1/2
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What's the one show cancelled in recent years that you wish would just *please* come back. For me, there's no competition. It's
@JonathanAStroud
's creepy and captivating
#LockwoodandCo
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I have just this minute finished my 14th novel!!!!!!!
Title and subject matter under wraps for now, but I think this could be the best thing I’ve ever done…
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'World, Food, Sperm and River: they are the Banks,' says
@VictoriaCoren
on
#OnlyConnect
... Hmm. I'm not sure I like this Mary Poppins remake.
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@benji_smith
The data must be deleted. Now. Most authors scrape by to make a living, and we can't even do that if our books are pirated - and I can't imagine how all the data you obtained was collected other than by this method. Please don't collaborate in the destruction of our living.
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So at the gym yesterday, after my workout I changed into my
@philipnormal
tee and one of the lovely older ladies who does her Pilates shouted out ‘La!’ as I walked by. She then came over for a socially distanced chat. In a shaky voice she told me she had loved
#ItsASin
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Dad is very poorly in hospital. All good vibes appreciated. He’s now on nebuliser and morphine
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loved him - when you FINALLY emerge from under all that - you realise you haven’t actually started to grieve at all.
The ongoing flood of admin and bureaucracy we expect the bereaved to IMMEDIATELY wade through drowns out the agony of a broken heart
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Signing off til Thursday. It’s my dear Dad’s funeral tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who has sent messages and been so kind over the past pretty hellish month.
Really appreciated it xx
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It's my birthday today! But that isn't the BIG, STUNNING, FABULOUS news....
So I can finally announce that
#HideousBeauty
sold out its entire first print run in under 3 weeks after publication!!! A reprint was hurriedly ordered and is now in its second printing! Honestly, I'm 1/2
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To pay the bills, to eat,to function as a ‘productive’ member of this society that has allowed me, and all of us who lose loved ones, so little time to piece ourselves back together.
I just think there ought to be a little more breathing time allowed by govt and big business
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And do you know what?
2 months later, when so many people think I should be feeling better, I’m only just beginning to feel the darkness, emptiness and loss of my lovely Dad.
But now? Now there’s a living to be earned. I need to work, to fix my mind on creativity, not grief
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What virtually every Sherlock Holmes adaptation gets wrong: Holmes is rarely rude. His social manners are noted by Watson as impeccable, and he is especially gallant to women. He often displays remarkable acts of kindness and empathy. He is NOT the awkward sociopath of the screen
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Blown away by the response to this post! Thanks all.
I think that teacher’s belittling of me stayed in my heart & made me determined to create a smart, heroic Traveller character one day. He finally took the form of my detective hero in KILLING JERICHO
If you’d told a 10-year-old Traveller kid, who was publicly ridiculed at school for his ‘backwards spelling and shameful English’, that his love of writing stories would prove a cruel teacher wrong, and I’d end up a published author at the Cheltenham Literature Festival…
Well 🤯
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Any author buddies know any writers of picture books for 5-year-olds? There's a v poorly little girl in Great Ormond Street currently battling cancer who would LOVE some signed books.Any help HUGELY appreciated. I will cover costs of books etc. Just DM me.
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Here it is, folks! The cover for JERICHO’S DEAD!
Designed around a tarot card motif, it perfectly captures Scott Jericho’s 2nd case - a thrilling, twisty Gothic murder mystery! You can preorder now (please do ☺️) at the links here!
#JerichosDead
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his corkboard in his dressing room and was the kindest, loveliest man, putting us at ease and offering Dad a glass of champagne. Dad took the pic of us then Jeremy showed us all around Wyndham’s theatre and was fascinated when Dad said he was a showman.
Great memories
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Been dating this gorgeous human for a month yesterday. Happiest month of my life ❤️❤️
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The BEST day in Edinburgh with my boy. If you haven’t guessed yet, I love him VERY VERY VERY much ❤️❤️
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Merry Christmas, one and all!
Love, us! 😘🎅🎄
Hold your loved ones right this Christmas xxx
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So, I have a limited number of
@Usborne
samplers from
#YALC2019
with exclusive reveals of some of 2020's most exciting new
#UKYA
books, including
#HideousBeauty
! If you'd like one just like/RT this tweet and I'll randomly select and send you a signed copy!
#LoveWinsAlways
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Conversations with my aunt always fill me with joy.
Her: We bought your book. I couldn’t read it. Not my cup of tea. Terry’s tried it too but he’s finding it hard going. When are you going to write something nice for older people?
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🚨
#Competition
time!🚨
To celebrate this amazing
#KillingJericho
quote from the legendary Val McDermid, I’ll be giving away a FREE signed copy of the book today! Just follow me, like & RT this tweet and I’ll select a winner from the entries!
UK only/closes at midnight today!
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I’m a year older than this Bryan Johnson billionaire guy who spends $2m a year and transfused his son’s blood to look younger.
I spend £6 a month on a bit of moisturiser and eat pizza like it’s going out of fashion.
I’m 45, a billionaire, obsessed with staying young — and hard to date
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The gym has been a crucial lifeline for my mental health after the loss of my Mum, Dad’s paralysing stroke, and my own open-heart surgery, all in the space of 2 1/2 years.
I remain grateful to the NHS heart rehab team who encouraged me on this path when I was at my lowest ebb ❤️🩹
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Speaking as something of a
#Christie
purist, I totally buy that as
#Poirot
's backstory. Actually makes much more sense than him being chief of the Belgian police. Bravo
@PhelpsieSarah
. Bravo!
#TheABCMurders
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Happy 2024 from us to you xxx
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When I was a kid, I wrote a poem about my favourite detective & Mum sent it to the inimitable
@David_Suchet
, who replied with this lovely note.
His words encouraged me to go on writing and, years later, it became my career!
Huge thanks to Sir David for this early encouragement!
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Chris has made me the most wonderful album of our first year together, with photos and illustrations and handwritten memories. I feel so so lucky to have such a wonderful partner ❤️❤️
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Currently writing my Dad’s eulogy.
After 14 books, this is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write.
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Fabulous meeting with a new publisher (🤫) about a new book (🤫) which will be out this time next year. And will be a brand new genre for me!
It’s already written and will be a ‘super lead title’ for them…
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Really happy to say my sisters really like my eulogy to Dad. A big relief as I wanted it to reflect how we all saw him and loved him.
Now I just have to read it out at the funeral next week. It’s one of the last things I can do for him, so I just want it to go well.
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A polite reminder: please don’t tag/subtweet authors in negative reviews/opinions.It’s potentially very harmful. In 2016, I was tagged in a 1 star review the day my mum’s life support was turned off. There it was, waiting for me next time I signed in. It felt like the final straw
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Been a rough week here, but I’m excited today. Off to to see my boy for our first anniversary weekend!
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#Giveaway
Time! Only 12 hours to enter! My last batch of
#HideousBeauty
author copies have arrived - so, who fancies a signed one? Just follow me, like and RT this tweet - random winner selected by 8pm tonight! Double your chances by entering on my Instagram for another copy!
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Morning all. Struggling a bit this morning. Reality of my book - 2 years of my life - coming out in May to closed bookshops/cancelled events really hit me. In the scheme of things right now a book isn’t a big deal, I know, but it’s my career and it is a bit devastating.
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I love this look!
So excited for the 15th Doctor
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To the anonymous person who messaged me about my surgery scar. Thank you for your view about it being 'disgusting', 'nothing to be proud of', and 'scary for kids to see.' I disrespectfully disagree. We all have scars, visible or not, and they are beautiful. They tell a story 1/2
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No better feeling than finding your book face-out and then chatting to a bookseller who champions your work ☺️🥰
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🚨I am THRILLED to announce that KILLING JERICHO is longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024!
Voting is now OPEN - please give crime fiction’s first Traveller detective a vote here! 🕵️♂️🎡🎪
#TheakstonsCrime
#TheakstonsAwards
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Night lovelies!
Not said that for ages and I’ve missed it! Just a quick thank you for all your support recently with Dad being so poorly, my carer stresses and my heart stuff. Sometimes this place can be kind and you guys are the best!
So cheers to you 😘
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the funeral arrangements, solicitors, sort out banks, utilities, household items, begin probate, tax, pension and disability benefit matters. The list is endless.
So when, roughly 2 months after you last held your dying father’s hand and told him for the final time that you
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When you’re at Harrogate Crime Festival and the legendary Val McDermid tells you how much she enjoyed your book!!! 😁😁😁😁😁
#KillingJericho
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📣ANNOUNCEMENT 📣
I’m beyond thrilled to announce that, less than 2 months after publication, BROKEN HEARTS AND ZOMBIE PARTS has SOLD OUT its entire first print run and has been rushed into a reprint!
Now with the wonderful Becky Albertalli’s kind words on the cover!
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I think I came up with an idea for a very new take on a vampire love story last night. And a gay YA vampire love story at that. Who's in?
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A dream come true!
After a lifetime of devotion to crime novels, I’ve been accepted as a member of the Crime Writers Association with my qualifying novel KILLING JERICHO!
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Me and the fella. This was our first ever pic together.
Thank you for the happiest couple of months in my life, sweetheart xx
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