Virginia Macgregor

🇺🇸I dare to dream…I know, I know, you’ll give me all the sensible reasons for why it can’t and won’t be. But still, for me, America has always been about aspiration, and this feels like a time to aim high, so I dare to dream…#HarrisButtigieg2024 @KamalaHarris @PeteButtigieg

@PatronSaintDogs I sobbed throughout the final chapter - such a moving book.

Howled at the moon last night reading Caleb Carr's My Beloved Monster. Beautifully written, it is the moving tale of a companion animal told as a dying man's final homage to the cat that rescued him. #Caturday #CatsOfTwitter

@ChrisBohjalian I just finished this beautiful, moving, haunting memoir and cried through the whole last section - big blubbery tears. As a big cat lover, I felt so grateful to read someone who finally put on the page what magical creatures they are.

Yes, I really loved Caleb Carr's memoir of his life with Masha. You will, too.

First time this year writing on the covered porch. Spot Otto🐈‍⬛… #amwriting

In this week's newsletter I share my 5th Tip for Creative Growth: Collaborate with Nature. I dive deep into those gorgeous writers, like Robin Wall Kimmerer, who remind us how deeply connected we and our creativity are to the natural world.🌿 #creativity open.substack.com/pub/virginiama…

My brave, talented friend, the writer and mental health activist, @Irenebuchine, is talking at the @BookeryMHT about her beautiful and important book #celiaandthelittleboy. Come along if you're in the area - but regardless, buy and share this book about children and mental health

If you love a book, don’t forget to tell everyone about it on social media & leave a review on Amazon & other book review websites. It’s the only way that the books you love will find new readers. And it’s the only way that authors will continue to thrive & write more books.

On behalf of the cat community, who have been slighted for too long: could we please stop calling it down "dog"! 😆🧘‍♀️ #yoga #CatsOnTwitter #cats

Do you feel lucky? Or unlucky? And do you think you have any control over your answer? In my newsletter this week I look at what it means to be lucky, successful and generous, especially as an artist. #creativity #WritingCommmunity #thewritingcafeé shorturl.at/rszIK

To kick off my Substack series on Creative Growth, I explore how cherishing your inimitability is the key to finding joy as an artist. #MondayMotivation #creativity open.substack.com/pub/virginiama…

In celebration of eclipse week here in the USA (which was mindblowingly beautiful), here's my second YA, all about young love under that big starry sky of ours. @HarperCollins @Harper360 #asfarasthestars #eclipse2024 #yafictiond

Following my keynote at the Derry Author Festival, I'm releasing a series on my Substack, THE WRITING CAFÉ: 7 Tips for Creative Growth. I hope you'll follow along.🌱 shorturl.at/EOWY0 #writing #writingcommunity #writingadvice #creativity @derrylibrary

In 2024 I want to STRENGTHEN my writing practice, my mothering, being a partner, a friend, my health, the way I show up in the world - not by powering through, but by building up the fabric of who I am. Do you have a word for the year? I’d love to know.🤍 #NewYear2024

INTRODUCTION: WRITING FROM FICTION @virginiamacgregor5781 youtu.be/yg0A--7JJAg?si… via @YouTube

@adalimon Feel better soon. Hope you get to hide under a duvet with a good book! And the cat and dog, of course.

A clever, tender book about a child who doesn't fit in and the grief following the death of a mother. A beautiful look a father-son relationship and the power of the natural world to heal - and how we need to save it before it's too late. @penguinrandom #bewilderment #BookReview

Monday #bookhaul from @blackwelloxford: possibly the best way to start the week! Have you read any of these? They've been on my #tbr pile for a while - can't wait to dive in.

Airports have the right idea. If you’re gonna stress people out, at least give them bookstores, coffee, cocktails, and let them wear sweatpants. It’s only fair.

@CescaMajor Yay - well one you!

How I feel about it finally being publication week for MAYBE NEXT TIME after two years waiting for this moment.

The awesomely talented @jon_mcgregor has done it again with #leanfallstand: one of the most moving explorations of marriage and the failure of language and the painful and beautiful recovery of love and body and mind and words. I loved the final third, especially. @4thEstateBooks