Karen Andrews

@ocallaghanac Love this!! ❤️

"Library kids are going to save the world."

@V8Sheppard At least it’s being read!! 👨‍🍳 😆

Other authors are winning the Booker Prize, I'm getting my book read by giant chefs on stilts at the Manjimup Cherry Harmony Festival. We are not the same. 😎

Support this fantastic organisation and maybe win a new car! 🚗 💗 raffletix.com.au/rizeupgalaball…

@G_D_Ison_Writer Noooooooo!!

@G_D_Ison_Writer Southern Comfort 🤢🤢🤢

@LaraCainGray @G_D_Ison_Writer @RahniaCollins @SteveMinOn @ocallaghanac @AuthorPoppyGee @passtheamyl @JenBowden12 @michelleuptonau @rayseewriter @Carla_m_salmon Good luck 🤞🏻

@G_D_Ison_Writer @RahniaCollins @SteveMinOn @ocallaghanac @AuthorPoppyGee @passtheamyl @JenBowden12 @michelleuptonau @rayseewriter @Carla_m_salmon @KMMAndyWriter I’ll be an apology for this one I’m afraid. I’m house hunting this weekend 🤞Have fun and send photos!

@ocallaghanac @LaraCainGray Well done Lara. I think you deserve that glass! 🥂

@LaraCainGray Impressive! 👏

Cheers to: - 3 cities in 4 days - 3 events in 4 days - talking to 3 or 400 people about books and literacy, and then… - writing a bloody good short story based on the human connections that matter most when you have a crazy busy weekend.

@G_D_Ison_Writer @RahniaCollins @LaraCainGray @SteveMinOn @ocallaghanac @AuthorPoppyGee @passtheamyl @JenBowden12 @michelleuptonau @rayseewriter @Carla_m_salmon Sorry I can’t make this one! We’ll be in Port Macquarie for the Ironman. Have fun.

@LaraCainGray 🥺🥺

No-one teaches you in college how to farewell a friend who doesn’t speak your language. With no choice, I lean in and whisper ‘bye friend’. The vet takes him away. #30Words30Days #college #microfiction And also, we lost our cat today 😢

@G_D_Ison_Writer Too true!

@G_D_Ison_Writer Yes I remember it too!

@AuthorAllieR @calmann_levy Congratulations @AuthorAllieR that’s awesome 👏🏻

I'm excited to share the French cover of The Bay. LA TRIBU means 'The Tribe.' The Tribe was actually the original title I picked when I first thought of the idea! It launches 3rd May in France. Huge thanks to my French publishers, @calmann_levy! #LaTribu #livresfrancais

@michelleuptonau Great review! Couldn’t agree more 💗

💗💗💗My heart is bursting!💗💗💗🥰🌴👠📚☀️

@G_D_Ison_Writer @RahniaCollins @LaraCainGray @SteveMinOn @ocallaghanac @AuthorPoppyGee @passtheamyl @JenBowden12 @michelleuptonau @rayseewriter See you there! 😁

@passtheamyl @G_D_Ison_Writer @RahniaCollins @LaraCainGray @SteveMinOn @ocallaghanac @AuthorPoppyGee @JenBowden12 @michelleuptonau @rayseewriter Occasionally on here. That’d be great. Thanks!

@LaraCainGray Was a frequent lunch/coffee/meeting place for me 💖

A lot of Brissie friends of my vintage have fond memories of 3 Monkeys cafe in West End. It closed. I was sad. It re-opened…as a tiki bar. It is now The Fourth Monkey. It has Pac-Man and Prosecco. But I still miss the olden days.

@LaraCainGray Fantastic review. I’m going to have to get me a copy!! 📖 😁

Home Brewed Vampire Bullets is an occult rock ’n roll black comedy like no other. Mad Max meets Hunter S from Brisbane author Garth Jones. I blogged about why shocking texts are good for you and quality euphemisms are an art form. charminglanguage.com/2023/02/26/gar…

Busy week; Ed Sheeran with my girl 💖; Del Amitri with my man 💙; Book launch with my neighbour ❤️ for Michelle Mitchell’s book Tweens. Plus working every day 🙄✈️ who has time to write 🤷‍♀️

@V8Sheppard @RahniaCollins @LaraCainGray @incunabula Exactly!! I love the German take on things. The holocaust “museums” and camps are confronting and haunting, but they state ‘we show them, in order to remember never to return!’ (Or something like that) You can’t erase events, you can only learn and hopefully improve!

@KMMAndyWriter @RahniaCollins @LaraCainGray @incunabula Yep. It really creeps me out when people try to erase what the past was like. We won't learn anything if we just treat history as rewritable into today's norms. Harrowing.

Roald Dahl - 2001 authorized Puffin edition vs 2022 authorized Puffin edition. telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/1…

@RahniaCollins @LaraCainGray @V8Sheppard @incunabula It’s like trying to rewrite history! They’re his words, written in his time. Leave them alone. If you don’t like it don’t read it.

@LaraCainGray @V8Sheppard @incunabula But it's also important to see the attitudes and thought processes of previous times even if they are problematic. Those are some of the best places for discussions.