Thank you to everyone who joined us for Book Club. A wonderful evening filled with brilliant questions, thought provoking ideas, lots of fun and laughter! 📚 📚🌊Caroline Lea🏞️✍️ we adore you and your writing and we can’t wait to read the next one you have up your sleeve 🤩

Writing friends! As part of a course I'm teaching, I want to give my writers some advice on getting published. I'd love your input please! 1) Can you recommend a great freelance editor, esp. focusing on #histfic? 2) Any advice on self-publishing or getting an agent? Thank you!

If you're looking for inside knowledge on the various stages of publishing, join us at the National Writers Conference 2024! 🎫To find out more and book your place, click the link in our bio/ here: buff.ly/3TCHEpu Jessie Goetzinger @carolinelealea #NWC24 #WriterEvents

📣 Join us at the National Writers Conference this June! An unmissable day of industry guidance and networking for writers. 📅29th June 2024 10am - 4pm 📍Birmingham, UK 🎟️Tickets from £42: buff.ly/3wKx2Od

Hugely excited to be on a panel for the #NWC on 29th June. There are loads of great events and discussions for prospective writers – tickets are selling fast! 👀💜📚

Love this piece in Psychology Today about that hideously overused writing maxim, 'show, don't tell'. I think great writing does both. psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/rethin…

Blue shell the 1%

Loved meeting readers, writers and bookish obsessives yesterday at the #NationalWritersConference. Such a pleasure to be on a panel with kiya rose and Jessie Goetzinger, brilliantly chaired by Emma Boniwell. Thanks to WritingWestMidlands & everyone who came along 💜

Thing is, you're allowed to bin your own copy of a book, even if you work at Waterstones. If you want to bin my book because you hate me...that's OK! I won't get you fired. I feel like I'm inviting a big conflagration of my books, but you know what? I still won't get you fired.

HUGELY excited to have this proof of OLD SOUL by Susan Barker. Sue's writing is wonderful (if you haven't read THE INCARNATIONS, please do so immediately!) & this novel, out in Feb 2025 sounds fantastic. Thank you @penguinukbooks @boroughpress. I can't wait to start 💜

Can't quite articulate how much I adored THE WEDDING PEOPLE by Alison Espach. Hilarious, insightful, immersive, tender – this beautiful , brilliant love story had me reading until 3am. Monica Heisey meets Phoebe Waller Bridge. Thank you Francesca Main & Phoenix Books, I loved it💜

22nd July!!!!!!

Thank you so much Liz Foley and HarvillSecker for this gorgeous proof of NEPHTHYS by Rachel Louise Driscoll. It sounds fantastic and looks beautiful. Can't wait to read 🩵🧡🩶

Oh thank you SO much to Sophie Orme, kat dunn 🕯️🕸️ (occasionally here) and Bonnier Books UK for this GORGEOUS copy of #Hungerstone complete with treats which smell and taste *delicious*. This beautiful novel by #KatDunn is out Feb '25 & I am absolutely here for a Sapphic vampiric retelling 🤩🧛‍♀️🦇

New tattoo by the amazing Dan Metcalfe at Valentine's Tattoo. 🧡🧡🧡 instagram.com/p/C9qJ9uoMmgd/…

LOVE this book. The perfect summer read. 💜💛🩵

Loved loved LOVED this brilliant book. #TheWeddingPeople 💜 The most fantastic, heartfelt, hilarious and brilliant summer read. 💛 Thanks again Francesca Main for giving me the chance to read a proof. 💚

DISCOVER THE SPELLBINDING RETELLING SET AT THE DAWN OF THE ROMAN WORLD ✨ By Sunday Times bestseller Laura Shepperson This is the story of Rome's origins as it's never been told before, through the eyes of three women whose choices changed history. brnw.ch/21wLRnf