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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 5d

Hello! For ADHD Awareness Month, the bionic text eBook of 'It's Not a Bloody Trend' is down to £2.99.

If you find you have trouble with your eyes sliding off words, bionic text is a wonderful innovation that makes it much, much easier to read a book: www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Not-Bloo...

The beautiful blue and gold cover for my book It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult. At the top, there's a quote from Bryony Gordon: "An incisive, brilliantly written and - above all - deeply comforting book."

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Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve just discovered your alt text descriptions. Magnificent. Need to up my game.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 10d

Hello from ADHD me who was just idly wondering when the paperback edition of It’s Not a Bloody Trend was coming out (I’ve been away) and blow me, it’s TODAY! With a lovely new quote from Bryony Gordon and everything! Thank you so much to Andrew and everyone at Robinson and Millie at United Agents!

Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · 10d

It's #ADHDAwarenessMonth and one very good way to become more aware is to read It's Not a Bloody Trend, by @katbrownwrites.com, which is out in paperback this very day - retailer links here: www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kat-b...

Cover image of It's Not a Bloody Trend by Kat Brown with endorsement by Bryony Gordon.

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Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · 10d

It's #ADHDAwarenessMonth and one very good way to become more aware is to read It's Not a Bloody Trend, by @katbrownwrites.com, which is out in paperback this very day - retailer links here: www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kat-b...

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Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · 12d

Have you seen they have been filming the sequel in the UK? In a new estate that weirdly looks like New England just behind the dump near my parents' house. Lots of excitement on my local Facebook group about Sandra B being spotted.

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Clare Mackay @claremackay.bsky.social · 22d

Big news!

I loved researching and writing this book, which is all about shedding the shame, and getting really curious about urges to pick, pull and bite.

I can't wait to share it with you! It's out on April 2nd, and is available to pre-order now.

#bfrb #bfrbs #bodyfocusedrepetitivebehaviors

Picuture showing forthcoming book, called 'Keep your hair on: understanding urges to pick, pull and bite' by Clare Mackay, which will be launched in April 2026

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Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social · 24d

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Sep 8

Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past

Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

www.amazon.com

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Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · Aug 20

We published the brilliant 'Holding the Heavy Stuff' this summer - an illustrated guide to acceptance and commitment therapy.

Inspirational quote about the shortness of life from 'Holding the Heavy Stuff' by Ben Sedley, with an illustration of an eggtimer, and the book cover.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · Aug 19

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · Aug 6

Preorder links here if you'd like a copy, or for a friend – and, as always, you can order it from your library! littlebrown.co.uk/titles/kat-b...

No One Talks About This Stuff

No One Talks About This Stuff is a support group for almost-parents. A place to share their journeys of loss and limbo, to confront social pressure and to fi...

littlebrown.co.uk

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · Aug 6

One day I won't feel physically unwell because of Unbound/Boundless, but until that time, here's the Publishers Weekly piece on it which is causing Some Chat in the authors group. The authors group filled with brilliant books, ideas, and writers. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Brown added of the Unbound situation: “I’m in a WhatsApp group with 88 other ex-Unbound/Boundless authors, all of whom have felt utterly sick at the thought of letting down everyone who supported our books.” She added that “there are so many brilliant ideas waiting to be picked up from Unbound authors… all backed by hundreds of readers.”

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Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · Aug 6

Yay, lovely to see this covered in The Bookseller. We re-publish this brilliant anthology tomorrow!

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · Aug 6

Some lovely official news about No One Talks About This Stuff – now a Robinson/Little Brown acquisition www.thebookseller.com/rights/robin...

Robinson snaps up Kat Brown's No One Talks About This Stuff following Unbound's closure

Robinson Psychology has acquired No One Talks About This Stuff: Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood edited by Kat Brown following the closure of Boundless.

www.thebookseller.com

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · Jun 10

I am also delighted to say I've just signed with Robinson to publish No One Talks About This Stuff. Robinson publishes It's Not a Bloody Trend and are a dream to work with. I am so excited for NOTATS to have a proper life given all the Unbound horrors. As you can see, Sybil is very supportive 🙄

A golden retriever lies on the floor like a melancholy dishcloth. Her comfortable bed lies slightly away from her but no! She spurns comforts! Only hard floor.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · Jun 10

It means a lot that Reading Well has books on dealing with loss. It's something that many parents experience. It's also why No One Talks About This Stuff is deliberately intersectional: grief and loss don't exist in a vacuum. They are informed by who you are. It's a support group in a book.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · Jun 10

Some lovely news. Accessibility means a lot to me with my books so I'm really thrilled that my anthology No One Talks About This Stuff has been chosen for @readingagency’s new #ReadingWell for Families booklist! Now available to borrow for free from libraries. readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/...

A picture of my book No One Talks About This Stuff: Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood, which has been chosen for the Reading Well parenting list and will feature in 750 libraries around the UK.

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Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · May 9

Pope Tim Tams VI

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · Apr 10

In cheering news, if you’re near Moorgate, you must pop into Makes Sense to Me’s bookshop pop-up at 120. (Inside the Barclays.)

Karyma Ellis specialises in neurodiversity and sells books and fidgets for kids, teens and adults - really really lovely! makessensetome.co.uk/pages/events-1

Me and Karyma Ellis, the founder of Makes Sense to Me, grinning cheerfully while I brandish a copy of my book

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · Apr 9

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · Mar 17

Whilst I wholeheartedly agree, worth skipping to Ed and James's postmortem in the last five minutes. Very funny.

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The Long Sleep suicide support book by Kate Hill @thelongsleep24.bsky.social · Mar 15

With gratitude to
@drrachelgibbons
for raising awareness #Hope #ItsOkayToTalk #MentalHealthAwareness #Support

The Long Sleep suicide support book by Kate Hill @thelongsleep24.bsky.social · Jan 18

‘Through the compelling personal account and practical guidance it offers, this book helps turn immense grief into a pathway for healing, ensuring that the suffering of those we’ve lost becomes a catalyst for deeper human connection and care’ 🌱 Dr Rachel Gibbons, Royal College of Psychiatrists

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Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · Mar 7

'It's Not a Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult' by @katbrownwrites.com is just 99p on Kindle for the whole of March. An ideal time to snap this up if you haven't already.

Cover image of 'It's Not a Bloody Trend' by Kat Brown, now just 99p on Kindle for all of March 2025. Picture also features a selection of endorsements of the book.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · Mar 4

It’s Not a Bloody Trend is a 99p Kindle deal throughout March if you’re looking for an accessible book about ADHD adult diagnosis - lots of people I haven’t paid and do not know have told me its funny, helpful and informative, which really surprised my mum. www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Not-Bloo...

It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult

It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult eBook : Brown, Kat: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

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Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · Feb 28

He had a chat that had been running for four months. It was endless pages and pages...

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Andrew McAleer @andymcaleer.bsky.social · Feb 28

My dad had the same issue, they randomly decided to make his 'blueyonder' email address defunct: 'just set up a new email address to fix it'. I managed to get him back him but he'd spent months going back and forth to customer services, how do Virgin expect people in their 80s to cope with this?

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