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I've handed in a story. And yet am haunted by the question of whether the ground in Massachusetts in November is frozen too solid to bury a body. I don't think it would be. I expect I shall find out definitively once the letters start coming in.

If you're eligible for this, apply. You've got to be in it to win it. Don't let anyone tell you what you can't do.

This shit is such bullshit so here's a thread of ancient funerary epitaphs for children:

Friends, one last shout out for my #writingthepast historical fiction course which starts a week today! All the creative history chat via Zoom each Monday at 8pm. Have a cheeky £10 discount on me with the code LASTMINUTE10: eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-the-…

A couple - and their #dog - stroll by moonlight, painted by Gesina ter Borch c. 1654-59 (Rijksmuseum)

This is a wonderful course - a scene I wrote as part of Imogen Hermes Gowar #writingthepast made it into book 2. Highly recommend ✨

#PLR day! My favourite thing - more than the money, which is v nice - is seeing that things I wrote many years ago are still being borrowed and, I hope, enjoyed. Thousands of people each year read The Mermaid. That it continues to live is a great joy to me. Libraries are magic!

It's National Hugging Day! 🫂 To celebrate, here are a few examples of medieval hugs First up we have a scene from an early fifteenth-century manuscript of a man and woman enjoying a rather close embrace Walters Manuscripts (The Walters Art Museum) MS W. 166, fol. 118r 🧵 1/

I have this backup notebook that I've been using sporadically since 2017, whenever I can't find my everyday notebook. It's a very special bit of Mermaid and Mrs Hancock promo. It feels sacrilegious to use it up but also really good. What a time in my life that was.

I was browsing some photos of Bristol in the 90s and found one of my dear grandparents' street. And there they are outside their house. I can't express how comforting it is to see this.

The nets!!!! I've never seen a border like that before.

Digital facsimile of the Hours of Catherine of Cleves. So many beautiful images to pore over, plus a commentary full of information and just the right amount of sass. themorgan.org/collection/Hou…

When I was 19 I saw Marianne Faithfull on Richmond Hill. It was a very beautiful evening after - for me - a very happy day, and we smiled at each other. It seemed very natural she'd be there, very much in the Ab Fab "God" role. I'm sad she and I no longer share a planet.

I'm going to try not to be on this website any longer. You'll find me at the other place xx