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Happy Easter! May your day be filled with bluebells, roast dinners and chocolate.

Fab start to the day: woken by birdsong and managed to squeeze in a chapter of edits before breakfast.

Get yourself a coat with pockets big enough to hold your entire manuscript.

Call me old-fashioned, but when I bought this Larousse carnet de lecture for my 9yo to keep track of our French reading, I wasn’t expecting it to come with spice ratings. Now the dilemma: do I cover it with labels or keep the journal for myself and start reading Anaïs Nin?

Meet Freddo, unearthed whilst destroying rotten decking.

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M&S maths

Loved hearing Samuel Burr in conversation with his agent Hellie Ogden at Real Writers Circle this evening. Also pictured: a cheeky glass of red to steel me for my reading.

Happy Dalloway Day to those who celebrate! #dalloway100

So chuffed to find my name in the acknowledgments for A LETHAL COCKTAIL by Ciar Byrne - the second in her cosy crime series starring Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell - out next week!

Had my first Mslexia long-listing (for the snakes theme). Taking this as a win! 🐍

Café edits: tying up loose ends & creeping up to 75k words. Home stretch! 🤗

Greetings from autumnal West Sussex.

V&A East timeline: open access archives, Bowie bits & RIBA-worthy architecture. #eastlondon #eastbank #vaeast #arts #museums #london banglemag.com/post/victoria-…

Current read and I’m LOVING it. So much warmth and humour. Virginia Woolf and her sister really come alive. 💙

It’s been a while, folks. How are we all?

Querying update for my contemporary whodunnit: subbed to two agents in April, one in May and one today. One replied to say she’s going on mat leave. Very quiet otherwise. Helps that I’m too busy to overthink it! #amquerying

Can you tell I’m on a train? It’s the only time I seem to use this thing anymore…

Vineyard Vacay read Ivy Ngeow #TheAmericanBoyfriend

Another gorgeous day here in West Sussex. Nearly done with the summer issue of Bangle Magazine - I’ve left the last of the formatting with my deputy editor (the long-suffering) & with any luck the flipbook will be out next week!