Team Minghella Ripley all the way. #sorrynotsorry

We have the sequel to Yellowface right here. Love the detail that our trans Ripley of Romantasy evaded zoom (and therefore detection) by claiming dysphoria.

On point.

I very much hope that children’s publishers, agents and authors are paying attention to the #CassReport - & the news coming from other countries, including the US, Finland, the Netherlands - & adjusting their output accordingly.

Culture has played a big part in this scandal.

HATE/SPEECH/SCOTLAND - A POEM
Obviously not funded by Creative Scotland or Scottish Book Trust.

Join Laura Vaughan, author of Hazard Night for a reading and a Q&A session at Shoreditch Library on Monday 25th March 6:30 - 7:30pm
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Laura Vaughan Hackney Libraries

'It will go down as one of the worst medical scandals in history.'
The #wpathfiles put it beyond doubt that surgeries and drugs of unproven benefit are being given to those who cannot give informed consent. If you're still cheering this on, you are complicit.

book idea vs. the first draft.

I'm delighted to share a #guestpost from Laura Vaughan about her inspiration behind Hazard Night Rach RandomResources Corvus
#thriller #HeatherAdoresBooks #HazardNight
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'Laura Vaughan is an author who gets better and better with every book' - Great review of #HazardNight 💫

Laura Vaughan

Publishing

'A delectable slice of Dark Academia - Times Crime Club on #HazardNight by Laura Vaughan
The blog tour kicks off this week from 25th February 💫
Thank you Rach RandomResources for organising and to all the #bookbloggers taking part!

Novels: hard
Synopses: really bloody hard
Blurbs: nightmarish
Taglines: having a nervous breakdown
Titles: aaargh, impossible!

Tough, but wise. Reminds me of an impatient editor 30 years ago, 'Enid Blyton,' she said, 'put her kids into a cupboard when necessary. '
'A nice cupboard,' she added (mistaking my silence for unhelpful mutiny instead of lack of cupboards)..

Just found this pic of myself on Pinterest. Yup, this is pretty much the scene here most days, once I've put my hair into a relaxed beehive up-do, just writing in my pants, in full make-up, with my little pocket dog sitting on my tiny thigh.

It's an utter disgrace for a rape crisis centre to be using 'nice women don't say no' against users who want female-only spaces

Just another evening of harmless fun. Until they found the body...

Dark academia fans, get this one on your tbr pile - #HazardNight Laura Vaughan comes to paperback this February.

Pre-order:
Waterstones:
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When people ask me about the Eternal Relevance of the Iliad, I sometimes say: read it because it's not relevant. Human experience is so much bigger than here and now. But sometimes I wish this great poem about the horrors and loss of war would stop being so damn relevant.

Shirley Jackson responds to the 1950s version of being tagged in a bad review.

All of us in the UK who are not Jewish - an immense, an overwhelming majority - have a responsibility in these troubled times to make our Jewish fellow-citizens feel valued & safe. A responsibility that clearly right now we are failing to meet. It shames the country.