The new block of The NIFTY Book Club is open for sign ups! 📚 Sept '25 - Jan '26 📚 Sundays 10-11.30am OR Mondays 19.30-21.00 BST/GMT 📚 Live author Q&As 📚 Worksheets in advance, meetings on zoom 📚 Full details in link below: https://t.co/WrlqvVJJX2 #writingcommunity

My Books of the Year 2025

Do I know any secondary school English teachers who wouldn't mind answering some questions about their job for a book? Thank you!

'Max insisted on a program for the funeral, something intentional and not rushed.' Beautiful, heartbreaking and fascinating exploration of grief and family dynamics by @VeronicaWrites in Flash Fiction Magazine #fiction #flashfiction How to Bury a Fish

Yesterday, I put out an open call for poems by Poets of Colour. I'd like some more submissions please. Do we have to look our self-confidence in the eye and say 'I can, I will, I must!' https://t.co/OpnTsMU0UE

The book of my heart! Early readers are saying amazing things. I'd love it if you'd pre-order. #WhatHappenedThatSummer

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard that AJ Silver, America's biggest teen pop sensation, had plunged to his death on a rollercoaster... 📚 👀 Pre-order your copy of #WhatHappenedThatSummer by @LauraPAuthor today! https://t.co/zTiKxiFJND

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: author Rhiannon Buckley and her brilliant new memoir "A Mind Blown." Read more here: https://t.co/7J99uSNEdG @crystalclearjt @EverybodyReview @welovememoirs

Really enjoyed this quirky little story by @bdcutkomp @BendingGenres #fiction #flashfiction

And for our final author spotlight, we have a lovely, healing nonfiction by Laura Santi. Read here: https://t.co/87HPTrB0Z3 #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Remember that determined wannabe author who folded an origami flower each time she got a rejection? I made a whole garden of perseverance and now I get to hold my book! And people are buying it! 😍🤩💜 Don’t give up on your dreams!

Granta also opened for submissions today - although the fiction category is still missing (it is available for the free, low-income submissions, so I guess it will open for everyone later today).

Feels like I’m shouting into the void recently. Querying my new MS: No response. Contacting bookshops to arrange signings: No response. Contacting schools to arrange visits: No response. Social media: Super low interaction. Say hi and keep me sane? Please? 😅

📢Hey - @ElectricLit is accepting FREE personal essay submissions! Hurry, because they're only open for 2 weeks or until their 500 cap is reached. 2000-6500 words. Pay is $100.

SURPRISE!! Opening my inbox widely December 1-7th to all genres in YA and adult (still limited in MG and no PB)!! If you have something that will make me laugh, cry, or swoon...send it my way!

FREE Shipping is GO! Get your paws on some excellent books with free delivery 28 Nov-1 Dec. Support independent bookshops, indie booksellers (and their cats.) https://t.co/BWc7z1mlYb [Site-wide | UK only | Standard shipping]

Lovely to see my book Saltburn on this @bookshop_org_UK #IndieBlackFriday list @renardpress - click on the link and browse some indie publishing delights. Amazon doesn’t need ALL our money. 😂🙌 https://t.co/yJ9CTlrz9A

And it’s Free Shipping for Saltburn and all other books on @bookshop_org_UK from 28th November to 1st December. So please share and celebrate #IndieBlackFriday

We have some amazing authors leaving us at the end of the year. This is the last chance to grab some of these incredible titles and support them for the foreseeable future. All books in our store are 25% with the code NORTHODOXMAS until the new year https://t.co/Qs8UFgtW4K

It’s not every day (or year, or book) that you get to number 2 in the Kindle chart. It’s such a dream to see #TheLifeSheCouldHaveLived flying so high. I’m so grateful to my publisher, @BoldwoodBooks (who also published the current number 1, #OneSnowyDay by @sharilow).

Thrilled!