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Jane Casey

@janecasey.bsky.social

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Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and The Killing Kind (now on TV!). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

Would it help make it more party and less Stephen-King-character-from-his-cocaine-days?

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

Brown. Gingham.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

You have to make the most of the alt text!

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

It really is a trend that won't die despite looking good on .0000001% of women who don't want to look good anyway.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, Oliver Bonas, this just screams party dress. I can have a great time listening to LPs with the other sister wives.

A morose woman in sensible shoes stands next to a weird lamp against a background of GCSE Textiles coursework, wearing a brown gingham sack. Described as 'partywear' on the website. More accurately 'a cry for help'.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

Also part of the week was the unexpected (by me) retirement of my wonderful editor who has been my guiding light through many books. I am verklempt. You don't know what a good editor can do until you have one.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

As anyone who works in or adjacent to UK publishing knows, it has been A WEEK. I'm exhausted.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

IT IS!! I looked it up! Still, though. The hair.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

Is that a Velasquez?

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

I'm tall but I've found Marks have been the source of some good options lately. H&M 12 is more like an 11 in most cuts and some of my favourite jeans have come from there. I also really like the and/or range from John Lewis. You have to go and try everything on! I'm sorry! I don't make the rules!!

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

They are the worst bosses. Absolutely terrible.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1d

I've come to the conclusion we need more gates and gatekeepers.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 4d

My dad helped to fund Sullivan Bluth (through his job; not personally).

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 7d

No. You’d wear it twice a year.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 7d

Honestly I’d buy it. It’s art.

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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a grey day in London so we are planning some photo shoot arrangements of our books which we hope will add colour to the misty outdoors, from our lamplit desk straight to yours! 💙📚#booksky

A colourful stack of Manderley press books with their rainbow cloth spines.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 8d

Incredibly sad. A man with a most beautiful mind - a true intellectual in the best sense of the word.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · Mar 4

Anything worth doing REQUIRES failure.

Not just once.

But over and over and over again.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · Mar 3

Because we all need a talk about failure and people and purpose right now, I’m porting over an old story thread from Twitter: the time my advisor told me if I didn’t get a C and destroy my perfect transcript, it would RUIN my life, and the time she was not actually wrong about it

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rubot @rubot.ie · 9d

this is a tweet i think of often

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 10d

Oh yes, the best. I was thinking of easy listening guns n roses etc.

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 10d

That is perfect!

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 10d

I hate this. What is the point of absorbing entirely fake creativity? It’s like choosing to listen to ear-bleed cover versions.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 10d

“It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting."

A Welsh Band Spent a Decade Building a Fanbase -- An AI Imitator Outpaced Them in Two Months

AI band Bleeding Verse cite Holding Absence as an influence — and they have more monthly listeners on Spotify than the human band.

www.rollingstone.com

Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 10d

I want soup for lunch but all I have are stupid soup ingredients.

Cat, despairing, on stairs.