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Linda Daunter @lindadaunter.bsky.social · 11d

Today's good news,

Louise has decided to reissue #MrsNarwhal'sDiary

Loved this book. Funny, touching, and I could relate to all the very real characters. It definitely deserves to be better known.

Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · Aug 4

Signed copies of Mrs Narwhal's Diary by SJ Norbury are now available at my website. Beautiful book inside and out. You don't often see the sister-in-law relationship in fiction, and it's sensitively explored in this novel... please share!

www.louisewaltersbooks.co.uk/buybooks

Pile of paperbacks of Mrs Narwhal's Diary by SJ Norbury, spines out. One copy sitting on top face out. Background is a green, blue and yellow floral cushion.

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Linda. I'm glad you enjoyed it. The novel does deserve to be widely read and loved and I'm pretty sure it would be had a Big 5 publisher brought it out and spent a lot on marketing! Alas, that's unaffordable for a tiny press like mine x

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · 14d

My weekly novel episodes and novel notes are back. I had a seven week break during which my dad passed away. My novel notes this week are about loss, creativity, and writing. I’m muddling through. What else is to be done?

louisewalterswriter.substack.com/p/novel-note...

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Has it really been seven weeks?

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · 14d

My weekly novel episodes and novel notes are back. I had a seven week break during which my dad passed away. My novel notes this week are about loss, creativity, and writing. I’m muddling through. What else is to be done?

louisewalterswriter.substack.com/p/novel-note...

Novel notes - 30

Has it really been seven weeks?

louisewalterswriter.substack.com

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · 17d

My novel-in-progress can be found here: louisewalterswriter.substack.com

It's a labour of love and a true #workingclass project.

The White Feather by Louise Walters | Substack

My sixth novel serialised weekly throughout 2025. Click to read The White Feather by Louise Walters, a Substack publication. Launched 9 months ago.

louisewalterswriter.substack.com

Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · 17d

Pleased to say I'm continuing my novel on S**stack this Wednesday. I took a six-week break due to my dad getting ill and passing away. This morning I finished the next episode. I find I have a new relationship with this novel... which I'll explore in this week's novel notes x

Black and white image of a detail of a hexagon patchwork quilt

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · 26d

And of course in her day there were no/fewer cars or buses so everywhere must have felt further away. The hamlet even now is quite isolated geographically, but only a ten minute car trip to the nearest town, Brackley.

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · 26d

As a kid it felt a long way but my dad drove to work there every day. The building of the M40 had a big impact on local transport. The roads have changed a lot in the Banbury/Brackley/Bicester area so much over the last few decades... Flora would be astounded!

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · 26d

I see a lot of this in my editing work. One of my common notes to writers is “Move this backstory to later in the novel?” or “Cut this backstory? We barely know this character so for now we just need to see her in action.“

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · 28d

I read it as a teenager when I lived in the actual Lark Rise, Juniper Hill. I lived in a cottage there from 1977 to 1993 with my mum, dad and brother. I was inspired to be a writer knowing Flora had lived there and written such an important memoir. Must read it again soon!

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · Aug 4

Signed copies of Mrs Narwhal's Diary by SJ Norbury are now available at my website. Beautiful book inside and out. You don't often see the sister-in-law relationship in fiction, and it's sensitively explored in this novel... please share!

www.louisewaltersbooks.co.uk/buybooks

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · Jul 29

One of the best novels you haven't yet read is on #KindleUnlimited at the moment! Mrs Narwhal's Diary by SJ Norbury is charming, funny, and heartwarming, exploring beautifully a tender sister-in-law relationship...

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Y7TH2T4

Paperback copy of Mrs Narwhal's Diary by SJ Norbury with pink flowers and foliage on cover and for real in the photo. Very pretty and fresh-looking. This book is also available as an audio book.

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The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social · Jul 21

A quick reminder that we're currently accepting pitches for stories for publication.

The time we're looking for stories - fiction or non-fiction - about what it means to be working class in 2025.

Pitch us!

Full details: thebeemagazine.com/open-call-fo...

Open Call for Submissions

Send us your ideas for stories you’d like to write for the Bee.

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The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social · Jul 26

Great novel by @jennyknight.bsky.social

The jacket of Wild Moon Rising, a novel by Jenny Knight

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · Jul 26

I’m reading it at the moment! (Audiobook.) I was a rural working-class child like Jenny. Lots to enjoy and recognise. Will be reviewing it once I’ve finished it.

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh1.bsky.social · Apr 29

I've reissued my novel The Dig Street Festival with a new preface about the road to here. Working on a paperback version too. It was first published by the lovely Louise Walters in 2021, but LWB closed in 2023.

I've enjoyed it. I want my book to live and quietly find its people.

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · Jun 19

Not on here much, or any social meeds nowadays! Pop in every now and then. Still on Twitter/X but a bit sporadic.

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Jenny Knight @jennyknight.bsky.social · Jun 19

Can't believe I'm saying this, but it's Publication Day! #wildmoonrising is officially out in there in the wild... I'm a writer a little lost for words, to be honest - I'm stunned, proud, slightly terrified and a whole lot happy. This took A LOT of years, so I hope it inspires you, too x
💙📚 #booksky

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · May 31

When I ran my indie press I paid four times a year, every three months. Never skipped a payment. I wasn't crowd-funding and worked my arse off to pay to publish my authors' books. If crowdfunding, there is no reason to not be able to pay royalties.

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · May 17

My latest novel is serialised every Wednesday in 2025. #ownvoices authenticity. I am #workingclass and my novel is inspired by my family, my background, my life.

louisewalterswriter.substack.com/p/welcome

Page from my notebook showing planning for my novel The White Feather. Very scruffy, lots of crossing out.

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · Feb 14

If you see this, post something RED…

Paperback of Don’t Think a Single Thought by Diana Cambridge. Predominantly red.

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · Feb 7

Picnic at Hanging Rock is one of my fave unsettling novels. It’s brilliant.

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Laura Laakso @lauralaakso.bsky.social · Feb 5

I definitely recommend checking out this gorgeous novella. Dreamy, glamorous, and very sad. Plus, you get to support an indie!

#amreading #BooksWorthReading #BooksMakeGreatGifts #bookstoread #WritingCommunity #indieauthors

Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · Feb 3

Happy day! We're re-issuing Don't Think a Single Thought by Diana Cambridge. It's available again in print, e-book, and audio. Read all about it in this morning's newsletter... and please share...

www.louisewaltersbooks.co.uk/so/4fPIzBhnC...

#booksky
#booksworthreading

Oh happy February!

Hello, everybody. Hope you are doing all right. At last it's February... spring is just around the corner... and with it, some rejuvenating news from LWB towers on this fine Monday morning! I'm going ...

www.louisewaltersbooks.co.uk

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · Feb 3

Happy day! We're re-issuing Don't Think a Single Thought by Diana Cambridge. It's available again in print, e-book, and audio. Read all about it in this morning's newsletter... and please share...

www.louisewaltersbooks.co.uk/so/4fPIzBhnC...

#booksky
#booksworthreading

Oh happy February!

Hello, everybody. Hope you are doing all right. At last it's February... spring is just around the corner... and with it, some rejuvenating news from LWB towers on this fine Monday morning! I'm going ...

www.louisewaltersbooks.co.uk

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Louise Walters @lwbooks.bsky.social · Jan 31

Big news coming on Monday… look out for a newsletter from me. There may or may not be a clue in the photo below…

Paperback of Don’t Think a Single Thought by Diana Cambridge.

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