Lesley McKenna

#PitDark #A #DF #PNH Crossings: Ellie, a writer who dies in an accident leaving 3 unpublished Dark Fantasy novellas on her laptop. Gemma, her best friend, reads them and is sucked into a world of horror, vengeance, death & metamorphosis. Multi-POV portmanteau novel.

@sivori I have my main groceries delivered because I Iive a long way from any proper shops and don’t drive. I do try to get public transport when I can.

I don’t understand getting your food or groceries delivered. Are you really that busy? What happens when all your chores depend on a underclass of people scuttling around to deliver your groceries, cut your grass or clean your house? What remains? There is something undignified in it.

@ariellcacciola Great! Looking forward to submitting my novel, Crossings, to you. A mix of a story of contemporary loss, grief and haunting, combined with Victorian Gothic horror and post WWI cosmic horror.

Ok, agents and authors. It's me! Your friendly, local editor. I'm starting to build my 2026 list. Interested in what I'm looking for? Sure, you are. Here's my #mswl. manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/arie…

@EyesShutTeacher I do. I loved them!

OK so who remembers Elinor M Brent-Dyer’s Chalet School books and how old are you? I’ve been drawing blank looks this week 👵

@adamkvonende @LolOverruled I think it’s more misery porn tbh.

@LolOverruled I wish critics of this book would define 'torture porn'. Unless you believe its legions of fans are sadists and psychopaths who take perverse pleasure in the suffering of others?

@rebeckoning @LolOverruled Hard agree!

@LolOverruled thank you for saying this. I fucking hated this book and by proxy, every single person who posted reels/tiktoks quite literally sobbing for the main character. Being an open minded hater, I read it in its entirety… I want to jump the writer so badly!!!

@jaden_powell @LolOverruled Yeah. I only finished it so I could have a proper discussion about it with my daughter who loved it. After many ‘discussions’ about it we’ve agreed to disagree. But I loathe it.

@LolOverruled But like don’t you feel like you have to finish it? I had to and it was terrible, but I am glad I did. Because I can be a full on hater now.

@MemorialAddress @LolOverruled True. Trouble is, in my opinion, it IS a bad piece of ‘literature’. Misery porn at its worst and at least 300 pages too long because the author apparently refused to edit it.

@LolOverruled Not everyone can stomach difficult subjects, that doesn’t make it a bad piece of literature. The beauty of books is that there are millions of others out there for you to choose from if a particular one doesn’t interest you 😜

@lettuceatcakes @LolOverruled I’ve struggled with those things and felt no connection with Jude whatsoever. I absolutely hated his character.

@LolOverruled I think for people who have struggled with suicidal thoughts(me) we have a very deep trauma bond with the book, but to anyone who hasn’t experienced some of the things Jude experiences I would 100% not recommend this book to literally any person.

@adamkvonende @big_sister @LolOverruled No. Just this book!

@big_sister @LolOverruled Do you think books about difficult topics should not be published?

@LolOverruled I agree. I hated that book with a fiery passion. Misery porn at its worst.

@brclothwrites Life is a cacophony.

This is your word of the day: CACOPHONY. Dare you use it in a sentence?

@klhicks912 Both. I started writing in my teens, got a first class hons degree in creative writing and a masters in my 40s, then went on to teach creative writing students. Now retired and still writing.

Which authors here went to school for writing and which ones picked it up and never stopped?

@PatricProAuthor Y’es 😀😀😀

Do you use apostrophe's correctly?

@paulmasonnews Misogyny has already entered mainstream politics. Never really went anywhere.

3️⃣ Misogyny will enter mainstream politics - and the whole anti-woke cocktail will be normalised by the BBC and alt media - that's proved successful in America. We need to stand up for women's rights across the board

Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵 1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...

@raeleaverrahman Yes, although we’ve always known that Jilly Cooper is in fact Jolly Super!

@ceris57 I do like the hair in some ways but I appreciate they didn’t “gloss it up” for modern sensibilities! It looks brittle and dry as it should! I also really appreciate that they’re treating it like a period piece - not bringing too many modern sensibilities to the story but allowing

Having a great time with Rivals. One thing I really appreciate is as glossy as it is it also makes the 80s look suitably awful. The hair is so well done and looks awful. The parties are shot beautifully but seem completely naff.

@raeleaverrahman Yeah. I guess I’ll get used to it, but I do find it off putting, and it diminishes his sex appeal for me. Although of course he’s a reprehensible cad!

@ceris57 He’s completely not right physically, I was very surprised, and I know lots of people don’t like it but personally I think he’s very hot and charismatic lmao so I am winning 😂 it was a very surprising casting choice.

@raeleaverrahman Yes. It’s very privileged upper middle class, Tory sensibility, but then I believe that’s Jilly Cooper’s viewpoint too. I’ve read the book numerous times in the past, and really enjoyed them, but don’t know if I would now. Probably would tbh, but would certainly question it more.

@ceris57 A lens for us to look at it and say “yeah some stuff was. Not good.”

@mannyball_ Two things can be true at once. People can care about both, and do.

You're allowed to be upset and shocked at this passing but it really helps put into perspective how certain lives are valued more than others, whilst others are treated as completely dispensable

Not to be that guy but do you see the absolute shock and horror people are in that ONE human died and how he was taken so young at 31, put into perspective the 30,000+ people of Gaza alone mostly way younger than Liam Payne and how it's been going on for more than a year straight