HeyJaredThe Lady Novelist Writes
An infrequent newsletter about being a proper, wading through those words, getting to the good stuff, still going after all these years lady novelist. Joy, truth bombs, author angst, book recommendations & my new quarterly event in Bath, Good Books Only.
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Ten autumn bookish thoughts from my desk (opens the original)
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Hello there. In an effort to keep some focus to this sprawling megalodon of a newsletter I am doing a list. I love a list don’t you? Andy Burnham didn’t mention lists in his speech today (which I found extremely moving as the daughter of someone whose dad lived in a care home for five very very awful years with brilliant staff who were paid nothing and moved on all the time and a system designed to break everyone) but trust me, if he gave everyone a free shopping list style book with nice design
The problem with being ‘nice’ (opens the original)
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Good day friends. Thank you for your lovely comments about The Treasures, i am so happy it has done the job for so many of you. I am wild with excitement about the Ravens. Part Two, The Threads will be out in June 2027 and i will post a pre order link when I have one. But here’s the Treasures again because it’s so lush:<div class="captioned-image-contai
Summer reading 2026 (opens the original)
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Good morning ladies and gents! Roll up! see how I promised my editor I would get an idea of when my rewrites would be back with her and instead I did this on Canva:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1029" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dbyp!,w_1
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