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The Gothic Cabinet by CJ Cooke is about dark folklore, haunted families, and unforgettable women.
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A Red Thread through the Labyrinth (opens the original)
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Follow me on Instagram • Sign up to one of my writing classes here • Begin or renew an annual subscription this month, and you’ll be automatically entered into a prize draw to win a signed copy of my new book • My next book The House of Cursed Daughters is out in October, and you can pre-order it here.<a clas
Hag, Witch, Bitch (opens the original)
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I’m teaching two online masterclasses this weekend. Want to come?Write with me!Isn’t it wild how, 500 years after the witch trials in Europe reached their peak, we still use the term ‘witch’ to insult women? And - like ‘slut’, ‘bitch’, ‘hag’, ‘Karen’, ‘whore’, ‘harlot’, etc., there is no male equivalent. Don’t come at me with ‘warlock’ - when was the last
History has a woman problem (opens the original)
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I’m teaching two online masterclass next weekend. Want to come?Write with me!I’ve noticed something during the course of my book research, which is that history has a woman problem. There is absolutely no problem whatsoever in finding information on how men lived throughout history. Male lives are thoroughly documented. Kings, Emperors, knights, monks, popes, and, further down the social scale, landowners, farmers, miners - the record is thin but they’re there.</
A Gothic Cabinet of Curiosities: some books I’ve enjoyed lately, a writing retreat, and thoughts I’ve had while finishing the first draft of a new novel (opens the original)
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I’m teaching an online masterclass next Sunday and we’re writing ghost stories. Want to come?Write with me!I ran my first 5k last night in about 2 months and it was damn hard. I had to stop halfway through to use the loo - luckily I was on a treadmill and not in the middle of the street - and I really had to use all the mental tricks to get myself over the line. But I got there, and today I’m feeling better for it. I started running in 2021, using the Couch to 5k app, of which
A Finite Number of Tuesdays (opens the original)
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I saw my dad’s dead body was I was 13 and I’ve thought about death every day since.You can probably tell I can’t do small talk very well. But such an experience tends to sharpen your awareness of mortality and transience very, very quickly, and so I cut past a lot of the fluff at a tender age and got straight down to what I wanted out of life. Which brings me to my midlife crisis:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lgAp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,f
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