SAM BLAKE
@samblakebooks.bsky.social
No 1 bestselling Irish crime writer (adult & YA) 💙📚
Chair Society of Authors, views my own.
Agent: Simon Trewin
https://linktr.ee/SamBlakeBooks
Chair Society of Authors, views my own.
Agent: Simon Trewin
https://linktr.ee/SamBlakeBooks
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SAM BLAKE
@samblakebooks.bsky.social
· Jan 27
For anyone new to me, I write thrillers (www.samblakebooks.com 😊 #TheKillingSense No 1 bestseller, out now! 🎉) I founded Europe's biggest writing resources website @writing.ie, Ireland's International Crime Writing Festival @murderonefest.bsky.social & run a fab online writers group, Writers Ink 💙📚
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Feels like a day for this #painting. "Poolbeg, Kayakers, Sunlight" came out of monthly cycles past Scotsmans Bay where I would invariably stop and enjoy the views across Dublin Bay and wait for kayakers to paddle into my picture. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Feels like a day for this #painting. "Poolbeg, Kayakers, Sunlight" came out of monthly cycles past Scotsmans Bay where I would invariably stop and enjoy the views across Dublin Bay and wait for kayakers to paddle into my picture. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape
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We have #SIGNED copies of SNOWBLIND by #RagnarJonasson @orendabooks.bsky.social
with lovely patterned edges
LUXURY 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
❄️Signed bookplate
❄️Beautiful sprayed edges
❄️Bonus story, Fadeout
❄️New introduction
www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...
We have #SIGNED copies of SNOWBLIND by #RagnarJonasson @orendabooks.bsky.social
with lovely patterned edges
LUXURY 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
❄️Signed bookplate
❄️Beautiful sprayed edges
❄️Bonus story, Fadeout
❄️New introduction
www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We have #SIGNED copies of SNOWBLIND by #RagnarJonasson @orendabooks.bsky.social
with lovely patterned edges
LUXURY 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
❄️Signed bookplate
❄️Beautiful sprayed edges
❄️Bonus story, Fadeout
❄️New introduction
www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...
We have #SIGNED copies of SNOWBLIND by #RagnarJonasson @orendabooks.bsky.social
with lovely patterned edges
LUXURY 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
❄️Signed bookplate
❄️Beautiful sprayed edges
❄️Bonus story, Fadeout
❄️New introduction
www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...
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Did you know that we’re one of the few organisations to award grants to writers for works-in-progress? Daniel Rachel received an Authors' Foundation grant from us to help fund research for his work-in-progress, This Ain't Rock and Roll, which has now been published by White Rabbit Books.
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Did you know that we’re one of the few organisations to award grants to writers for works-in-progress? Daniel Rachel received an Authors' Foundation grant from us to help fund research for his work-in-progress, This Ain't Rock and Roll, which has now been published by White Rabbit Books.
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Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.
A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
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A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.
A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
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A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
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Fabulous story 👏👏👏
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Fabulous story 👏👏👏
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A daily dose of vitamin c. One of the three limited edition prints available in my print shop. #oilpainting #art
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A daily dose of vitamin c. One of the three limited edition prints available in my print shop. #oilpainting #art
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Every so often it’s useful to answer some of the questions I get asked on here.
1. Yes they are.
2. Not the whole message, obviously.
3. In the garage, mainly.
4. No, it wouldn’t be practical. Sorry.
5. Purely random.
Cheers, T.
1. Yes they are.
2. Not the whole message, obviously.
3. In the garage, mainly.
4. No, it wouldn’t be practical. Sorry.
5. Purely random.
Cheers, T.
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Every so often it’s useful to answer some of the questions I get asked on here.
1. Yes they are.
2. Not the whole message, obviously.
3. In the garage, mainly.
4. No, it wouldn’t be practical. Sorry.
5. Purely random.
Cheers, T.
1. Yes they are.
2. Not the whole message, obviously.
3. In the garage, mainly.
4. No, it wouldn’t be practical. Sorry.
5. Purely random.
Cheers, T.
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It is a little later than I'd intended but here's our "usual" start to #SundayMorning. This is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums. Cecil lived almost opposite at 221 Farringdon Road Buildings #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
It is a little later than I'd intended but here's our "usual" start to #SundayMorning. This is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums. Cecil lived almost opposite at 221 Farringdon Road Buildings #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup
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Tent Campers
10”x10” Oil on cradled wood panel
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Available
10”x10” Oil on cradled wood panel
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Available
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Tent Campers
10”x10” Oil on cradled wood panel
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Available
10”x10” Oil on cradled wood panel
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Available
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If you can access BBC iPlayer, I recommend watching the Val McDermid In Her Own Words documentary as soon as you possibly can. However well you think you know Val and her work, you will learn things that astonish you.
November 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you can access BBC iPlayer, I recommend watching the Val McDermid In Her Own Words documentary as soon as you possibly can. However well you think you know Val and her work, you will learn things that astonish you.
Voting closes for the An Post Irish Book Awards tomorrow! 💙📚 If u've enjoyed my books, The Killing Sense is shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year. You can vote at www.irishbookawards.ie/vote - you don't have to vote in every category, but u *can* vote from anywhere!
Thank you, thank you 🙏🙏❤️
Thank you, thank you 🙏🙏❤️
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Voting closes for the An Post Irish Book Awards tomorrow! 💙📚 If u've enjoyed my books, The Killing Sense is shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year. You can vote at www.irishbookawards.ie/vote - you don't have to vote in every category, but u *can* vote from anywhere!
Thank you, thank you 🙏🙏❤️
Thank you, thank you 🙏🙏❤️
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Many of David Tindle's paintings possess what might be called a quiet profundity. For the art critic Brian Sewell, Tindle was: 'a painter in that quietly Romantic tradition of British art ... concerned with everyday, intimate, domestic subjects.'
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Many of David Tindle's paintings possess what might be called a quiet profundity. For the art critic Brian Sewell, Tindle was: 'a painter in that quietly Romantic tradition of British art ... concerned with everyday, intimate, domestic subjects.'
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Table is set! Find me at #ThoughtBubble! I have stuff!
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Table is set! Find me at #ThoughtBubble! I have stuff!
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Blue lemons. My print shop is now open for the next 72 hours with 3 limited edition prints. I only open my print shop once a year. #oilpainting #art
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Blue lemons. My print shop is now open for the next 72 hours with 3 limited edition prints. I only open my print shop once a year. #oilpainting #art
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After what has been quite a busy & stressful week here (one way or the other), another #SaturdayMorning has crept up on me quite unexpectedly so here's our weekly antidote to stress &, hopefully, a restful week-end for us all: this is "Interior" by Brynhild Parker from 1930. #BrynhildParker
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
After what has been quite a busy & stressful week here (one way or the other), another #SaturdayMorning has crept up on me quite unexpectedly so here's our weekly antidote to stress &, hopefully, a restful week-end for us all: this is "Interior" by Brynhild Parker from 1930. #BrynhildParker
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Butterflies still on the wing, late blooms and confused wildlife are the latest signs that Britain’s seasons are slipping out of sync as the climate warms
Poppies blooming in November? Why our seasons are falling apart
Butterflies still on the wing, late blooms and confused wildlife are the latest signs that Britain’s seasons are slipping out of sync as the climate warms
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Butterflies still on the wing, late blooms and confused wildlife are the latest signs that Britain’s seasons are slipping out of sync as the climate warms
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Who would like to buy a book today?
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Who would like to buy a book today?
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Christine Falls by John Banville is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2026,
Christine Falls by John Banville is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2026,
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
via @faberbooks.bsky.social
Christine Falls by John Banville is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2026,
Christine Falls by John Banville is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2026,
The Killing Sense is now out in shops in the handy paperback size, and it has the opening chapter of my January 2026 book Your Every Move in the back! It's perfect for travelling so here are some photos that might inspire you...
The Killing Sense out in paperback!
The Killing Sense is now out in shops in the handy paperback size, and it has the opening chapter of my January 2026 book Your Every Move in the back!
samblakebooks.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Killing Sense is now out in shops in the handy paperback size, and it has the opening chapter of my January 2026 book Your Every Move in the back! It's perfect for travelling so here are some photos that might inspire you...
More pics of Paris! 🇫🇷
The Killing Sense is out in paperback - the very handy size for travelling, AND it's shortlisted at the An Post Book Awards for Irish Crime Novel of the Year - you can vote from anywhere in the world, I'd so appreciate it! Www.irishbookawards.ie/vote
🙏🙏❤️
The Killing Sense is out in paperback - the very handy size for travelling, AND it's shortlisted at the An Post Book Awards for Irish Crime Novel of the Year - you can vote from anywhere in the world, I'd so appreciate it! Www.irishbookawards.ie/vote
🙏🙏❤️
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
More pics of Paris! 🇫🇷
The Killing Sense is out in paperback - the very handy size for travelling, AND it's shortlisted at the An Post Book Awards for Irish Crime Novel of the Year - you can vote from anywhere in the world, I'd so appreciate it! Www.irishbookawards.ie/vote
🙏🙏❤️
The Killing Sense is out in paperback - the very handy size for travelling, AND it's shortlisted at the An Post Book Awards for Irish Crime Novel of the Year - you can vote from anywhere in the world, I'd so appreciate it! Www.irishbookawards.ie/vote
🙏🙏❤️
Let me take you to Paris! 🇫🇷
The Killing Sense is out in paperback - the very handy size for travelling, AND it's shortlisted at the An Post Book Awards for Irish Crime Novel of the Year - you can vote from anywhere in the world, I'd so appreciate it! Www.irishbookawards.ie/vote
The Killing Sense is out in paperback - the very handy size for travelling, AND it's shortlisted at the An Post Book Awards for Irish Crime Novel of the Year - you can vote from anywhere in the world, I'd so appreciate it! Www.irishbookawards.ie/vote
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Let me take you to Paris! 🇫🇷
The Killing Sense is out in paperback - the very handy size for travelling, AND it's shortlisted at the An Post Book Awards for Irish Crime Novel of the Year - you can vote from anywhere in the world, I'd so appreciate it! Www.irishbookawards.ie/vote
The Killing Sense is out in paperback - the very handy size for travelling, AND it's shortlisted at the An Post Book Awards for Irish Crime Novel of the Year - you can vote from anywhere in the world, I'd so appreciate it! Www.irishbookawards.ie/vote
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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
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Leonard Cohen who died on this day 2016:
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Leonard Cohen who died on this day 2016:
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah