I’ve waited 66 years & 4 books for this. Thank you
@GoldsboroBooks
&
@ViperBooks
It was worth the wait. I cried before I even got in the shop! And then the launch! Photo dump tomorrow.
#WhatWeDidintheStorm
💙🌊💙🌊💙🌊💙🌊💙
So today is the day I become a PUBLISHED AUTHOR.
This video is in honour of all of us launching in lockdown. It might not be exactly what we’d dreamed of or hoped for but I’m high on cupcakes & adrenaline. YAY!
📚💗📚💗📚💗📚💗📚💗📚💗📚💗
#CallMeMymmy
@ViperBooks
Sorry for shouting but it’s MY PUBLICATION DAY!!!
I’ve decided to go low key with my sales technique.😆
In my local bookshop
@WaterstonesN8
An author first, apparently.
🔪💍🔪
#NastyLittleCuts
@ViperBooks
I’ve been awake for 48 hours straight, am in my nightie at 5pm & have tweeted so much my fingerprints have worn off. Happy publication day to me. Wouldn’t change a thing.
#CallMeMummy
@ViperBooks
A dark festive
#giveaway
for your 👀 & your👂
Like, repost, tag some friends who might like to follow me for books & cat content. I’ll choose winners this weekend. Paperback or audio available.
#MakeMeClean
*
@ViperBooks
*contains 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐾🐾
I’ve put on a stone since my lung collapsed, all my muscles disappeared 😱 I & went back to comfort eating after Splodge was run over 😿. But I’ve started my comeback.
Old girls lift.
#Fitness
#Writing
#Saturday
Bertie, my sweetheart, my emotional support, is in animal hospital waiting to have an intestinal blockage removed. If you believe in the power of good vibes, & I do, please send some to him.
#PrayForBertie
Felt emotional seeing this brand new
#Banksy
on Hornsey Road just across from my gym. I turned to a lady next to me in the crowd to celebrate the real joy people felt & it was Caitlin Moran. I’ve reached peak North London.
#Art
#artmatters
💚💚💚
Pip Pip Hooray! 🎉🐾🐾🎉
The vet called with the 2nd blood test results & it’s not FeLV as they feared (a viral leukaemia) - which means we can keep her as she’s not a danger to the big cats!!! Me & Geoff in tears.
She’s been through so much…
40 years ago today TV-am launched.
My first time on the hallowed sofa was presenting Tina’s Tips.
Terrifying as live tv is I loved it!
Now I’m giving tips on removing bloodstains in my crime novel
#MakeMeClean
@ViperBooks
🧽🩸🧽
#WritingCommunity
* Ten tons of makeup.
* Filter.
* Ring light the size of the sun.
* Fake blossoms shoved in candles.
* Frock late night buy from god knows where.
This is what it takes to go on telly to promote your debut novel.
#CallMeMummy
@ViperBooks
@reallorraine
News just in on Insta. First
@asda
sighting. HUGE DEAL for someone who grew up cleaning supermarket floors with my family. Now ON THE SHELF!
Please share pics. Bargain!
💗🖤💗
#CallMeMummy
@ViperBooks
There have been many wobbles on the way to publication. But one of THE BEST things to *finally* being an author is having people like Janice in my corner. Thank you.
💗🧽💗
READ IT AND SWEEP!!! 😆😆
Happiest of happy publication days 🎉 to the wonderful
@TinaBakerBooks
for today’s paperback arrival of the nail-biting thriller
#MakeMeClean
🧹🧼 Read it and sweep! 🕵️♀️🔎🔪 Out now from
@ViperBooks
Writer down. Batch of migraines. Had to lie in darkened room unable to see let alone read.
Waiting for doc appointment as haven’t had them since I was a teenager.
#Migraine
tips please.
#NotReading
#NotWriting
🧠⚡️🕶
Heartbroken. My cats are my family. Splodge Statham was run over yesterday. Thank you to the kind passers by who found him & took him to the vets. Sadly he couldn’t be saved. Healing hugs needed.
@GraniteNoirFest
#WritingCommmunity
Serving Darth Vader realness. Missing friends’ book launches & birthdays & work & at this rate probably meetings with agent & publisher. FFS
#asthma
#flu
#hospital
Yesterday I cried so much I pulled a muscle in my jaw. Today the kitten’s on the mend (she was sick but has just been to the vets & perked up). I’m back working despite 3 rejections yesterday which💔Geoff has just arrived with emotional rescue kit. Why I love him.
#amwriting
Win! Win! Win!
Exclusive!
@ViperBooks
pressies!*
+++ a pristine proof of
#CallMeMummy
!**
Retweet and follow and at 5pm tomorrow I will select a random winner using a convoluted system of cats and Dreamies.
*contains alcohol
**contains🙀🙀🙀
When you finally get in your local bookshop
@WstoneCrouchEnd
& they’ve sold out of your book, so you have to send your husband running back to bring some from home so you can do the photo you’ve been WAITING YOUR WHOLE LIFE TO DO!
That.
@Waterstones
#CallMeMummy
@ViperBooks
A gush re
@harriet_tyce
I’ve loved her since
#BloodOrange
. She’s supported me from day one - giving me an author quote for my debut, liking posts, now inviting me to the blue place. No reason. Just kindness. Thank you💗 I’ve only ever met her once. I was dressed as a penguin. 💗
Sending all my love to everyone at the
@ViperBooks
Showcase. 💗🐍💗
Me, my single working lung & my snakes will be there in spirit.
This from the launch night.
🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸
We are THRILLED to reveal the cover of
@TinaBakerBooks
' next book,
#NastyLittleCuts
.
Debs wakes in the night
There's a man in the kitchen
He's holding a knife
But it's not an intruder
It's her husband...
Coming Feb 2022, this is one thriller you won't want to miss!
#coverreveal
In other news, no breast cancer. Just a few dodgy cells that need monitoring. Thank you
#NHS
for mammograms, ultrasounds, 4 biopsies & clearly explained results. Will have annual checks. 🎯🎯Relieved & exhausted. Now to decide re the
#HRT
.
Photo dump incoming -
@itsthebookparty
Christmas shindig🎄🎄🎄
Honestly, the minute I got there it was FAB & my stupid nerves disappeared!!!! I love you
#bookbloggers
,
#booksellers
,
#readers
& fellow
#writers
. And back in Brum for the first time since my Pebble Mill days. 💗📚
We can’t let the trolls who ruined my book launch have the last word. It’ll be a funny story one day, but not quite yet.
I’m going to try a thread. In case it goes wrong, thank you
@instabooktours
for doing this to make me smile. 💗
📣 BREAKING NEWS! 📣
Fresh in from the printer, gorgeous proofs of
@TinaBakerBooks
’ new psychological thriller
#NastyLittleCuts
!
Having only just stopped the bleeding from my last round of papercuts, I shall recommence the posting! 📮
Miss Pip Buggerlugs Baker *Hyphen Pending* Searle is proud to announce she does NOT have ear mites. Given that she’s 80% lugs this is a relief to her parents, currently crowd funding for a hyphen 🐾
An urban miracle
@marksandspencer
Finsbury Park when dipsy here left her purse at the till - the amazing staff found & kept it safe until I arrived in a blubbering mess an hour later. They wouldn’t even let me buy them chocs. Huge thanks Caroline & security. Very touched💗💗💗
Six months of TLC 💗🐾💗 Miss Pip Pipanella, Pip Pip Hooray.
She’s now spayed & microchipped & going into the garden like a big girl & the vet said, despite the MANY health crises along the way, she’s now ‘totally normal’ - a diagnosis I’ve never received 😆
#KittenOfX
So today is the day I become a PUBLISHED AUTHOR.
This video is in honour of all of us launching in lockdown. It might not be exactly what we’d dreamed of or hoped for but I’m high on cupcakes & adrenaline. YAY!
📚💗📚💗📚💗📚💗📚💗📚💗📚💗
#CallMeMymmy
@ViperBooks
As a woman who’s been married 3 times I am honoured to be shortlisted for the Love Is Blind Award for Most Twisted Couple!!!
💗🔪💗
#NastyLittleCuts
@ViperBooks
Preparing for
#NewYearEve
like 🖤
Sending love to all who find this time of the year difficult. Today would have been my mum’s birthday. Bracing to eat my own body weight in chocolate. Roll on
#2024