Took the day off. Lazy morning with the dogs and spent the afternoon writing. May have finally mastered the story I've been wrestling with for two months. Don't know why I'm always surprised to be more productive and focused as a writer when I don't have a head full of work.
Book 58: Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel. Propulsive, spare and powerful story of a girls' boxing tournament and the inner lives of the fighters. Loved it #AmReading
Today is paperback launch day for my novel, The Disappeared! It's a frighteningly timely dystopian tale of banned books, authoritarian government and obsessive relationships. Go check it out 🔥 srlpublishing.co.uk/product/the-...#books
Listening to The Hotel Avocado audiobook and Bob Mortimer is narrating. It's lush hearing your own northern accent in mainstream media! 🥰
Book 57: The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue. Knotty, funny coming of age story about Cork roommates Rachel and James and their relationship with a married professor #AmReading
Book 56: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff. Loved this blackly humorous story of a group of women from an Indian village who come together to get rid of their abusive husbands #AmReading
Finding it increasingly hard to keep a consistent writing routine going alongside my work life. I'm lucky to be freelance, but working in the arts, the contracts available all seem to be for fewer hours now, which means more jobs, more to juggle, less brain space for writing.
Book 55: Yr Dead by Sam Sax. Quirky, literary novel with a story told through fragments of memory #AmReading
Book 54: Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson. A fun, witchy story set in Hebden Bridge with narrator Nicola Coughlan doing the widest array of accents I've heard in an audiobook #AmReading
