Rosie Fiore
@rosiefiore.bsky.social
Author of The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Middlesex University London. Tutor on Jericho Writers' Ultimate Novel Writing Course. rosiefiore.com
By all accounts he feels 24 if she'll stand still for long enough...
August 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
By all accounts he feels 24 if she'll stand still for long enough...
Who is Lucy Westenra? Sweet or flirtatious? Virtuous or wicked? And who is lurking in the shadows, determined to do her harm?
The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. Out now. www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Life-L...
The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. Out now. www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Life-L...
May 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Who is Lucy Westenra? Sweet or flirtatious? Virtuous or wicked? And who is lurking in the shadows, determined to do her harm?
The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. Out now. www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Life-L...
The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. Out now. www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Life-L...
Bram Stoker created Lucy Westenra as Dracula's first victim: but who was she really? A flirtatious girl? A wicked temptress? A loving fiancée? A child killer? Read her true story in The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. On sale now. www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Life-L...
May 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Bram Stoker created Lucy Westenra as Dracula's first victim: but who was she really? A flirtatious girl? A wicked temptress? A loving fiancée? A child killer? Read her true story in The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. On sale now. www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Life-L...
Lovely friends, here's my big news! My new book, The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra, will be published on 2 May this year. After a torrid few years battling the publishing industry, I am self-publishing this one, and I couldn't be happier. www.rosiefiore.com/the-death-li...
April 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Lovely friends, here's my big news! My new book, The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra, will be published on 2 May this year. After a torrid few years battling the publishing industry, I am self-publishing this one, and I couldn't be happier. www.rosiefiore.com/the-death-li...
If the term is new to you, I have been informed that the poet John Agard has "legendary aura". Adjust your style accordingly.
February 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
If the term is new to you, I have been informed that the poet John Agard has "legendary aura". Adjust your style accordingly.
I have an enormous p*nis on my car roof. I'd like to say it's because I'm interested in ancient history and it's a tribute to the Cerne Abbas Giant. But the truth is I have a 15-year-old son and that's all the explanation you need. Eye roll emoji.
January 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I have an enormous p*nis on my car roof. I'd like to say it's because I'm interested in ancient history and it's a tribute to the Cerne Abbas Giant. But the truth is I have a 15-year-old son and that's all the explanation you need. Eye roll emoji.
Esmeralda is the most excellent procrastination enabler. She lies down and SLEEPS on one in a very emphatic manner, giving the perfect excuse to say, "Well I would get up and do things, but..."
January 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Esmeralda is the most excellent procrastination enabler. She lies down and SLEEPS on one in a very emphatic manner, giving the perfect excuse to say, "Well I would get up and do things, but..."
Post-swim smugness... water was four degrees, snow in the trees, mist over the water. Glorious!*
*(double glorious now I'm home with hot water bottle and French toast)
*(double glorious now I'm home with hot water bottle and French toast)
January 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Post-swim smugness... water was four degrees, snow in the trees, mist over the water. Glorious!*
*(double glorious now I'm home with hot water bottle and French toast)
*(double glorious now I'm home with hot water bottle and French toast)
Today's delight: a freezing, glittery morning swim at the pond, sharing the water with three cormorants. Then I learned their collective noun is a "gulp". A gulp of cormorants. Delicious.
January 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Today's delight: a freezing, glittery morning swim at the pond, sharing the water with three cormorants. Then I learned their collective noun is a "gulp". A gulp of cormorants. Delicious.
This is me completing 366 days of yoga in 2024. I didn't miss a single day. I practised in friends' homes, on a stone floor in 40-degree heat in San Vincenzo and on a grotty nylon hotel carpet in Hull. I fitted it in at 5am or 11pm, depending on the pressures of the day, but I did it. >
December 31, 2024 at 1:34 PM
This is me completing 366 days of yoga in 2024. I didn't miss a single day. I practised in friends' homes, on a stone floor in 40-degree heat in San Vincenzo and on a grotty nylon hotel carpet in Hull. I fitted it in at 5am or 11pm, depending on the pressures of the day, but I did it. >
One of 15 yo's friends just described the way "slightly older" people hold their phone at arm's length, craning away and typing with one forefinger as "double-chinning" and I feel personally attacked.
December 31, 2024 at 2:04 AM
One of 15 yo's friends just described the way "slightly older" people hold their phone at arm's length, craning away and typing with one forefinger as "double-chinning" and I feel personally attacked.
Fyi, darlings, this is obviously not the real Barbara Kingsolver.
November 30, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Fyi, darlings, this is obviously not the real Barbara Kingsolver.
The target market for these slimy techbros is not the bookbuying public, but aspirants authors, desperate to see their book published. "Spines" will immediately become a byword for unintelligible crap, and no readers will touch it. But they don't care, as they'll have pocketed thousands from authors
November 26, 2024 at 10:48 AM
The target market for these slimy techbros is not the bookbuying public, but aspirants authors, desperate to see their book published. "Spines" will immediately become a byword for unintelligible crap, and no readers will touch it. But they don't care, as they'll have pocketed thousands from authors
Guys! Guys! Keanu's following me. I have finally MADE IT. I wonder which of my books he likes the best?
November 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Guys! Guys! Keanu's following me. I have finally MADE IT. I wonder which of my books he likes the best?
This is in Hull. Not sure what the origin is, but I love it! The street also features the smallest window in England I think...a tiny slit in the wall!
November 20, 2024 at 4:54 PM
This is in Hull. Not sure what the origin is, but I love it! The street also features the smallest window in England I think...a tiny slit in the wall!
Shamefully late to the party, I've just read Ann Patchett's Bel Canto. When I teach students about POV, I always struggle to find a true example of omniscient 3rd person. This is that book, and she's so skilful, she still manages to make us sympathetic to every character. I thought it was brilliant.
November 19, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Shamefully late to the party, I've just read Ann Patchett's Bel Canto. When I teach students about POV, I always struggle to find a true example of omniscient 3rd person. This is that book, and she's so skilful, she still manages to make us sympathetic to every character. I thought it was brilliant.
Esmeralda and I would respectfully like to be included (I'm respectful, she's a goblin, but nevertheless).
November 19, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Esmeralda and I would respectfully like to be included (I'm respectful, she's a goblin, but nevertheless).
My beloved grumbles when I go to the church Christmas Fair, because apparently I come back with "too many books", and "pointless tat". Well I've proved him wrong this year, by buying these Reasonably Priced yet Terrifying Christmas Cats. You can imagine his delight.
November 25, 2023 at 2:50 PM
My beloved grumbles when I go to the church Christmas Fair, because apparently I come back with "too many books", and "pointless tat". Well I've proved him wrong this year, by buying these Reasonably Priced yet Terrifying Christmas Cats. You can imagine his delight.
Beloveds! Want to write a book but don't know where to start? Where the hell do ideas come from? Another blog post from your favourite armour-plated ballerina. www.rosiefiore.com/post/summoni...
November 17, 2023 at 11:21 AM
Beloveds! Want to write a book but don't know where to start? Where the hell do ideas come from? Another blog post from your favourite armour-plated ballerina. www.rosiefiore.com/post/summoni...
Dearest ones, I beg your kind attention. With great trepidation, I'm launching a blog of writing advice. If you've ever dreamed of writing a novel, I hope you'll find some kind and useful advice from this "Ballet-scarred rhinoceros". #amwriting #amwritingfiction
www.rosiefiore.com/.../your-tit....
www.rosiefiore.com/.../your-tit....
November 15, 2023 at 3:19 PM
Dearest ones, I beg your kind attention. With great trepidation, I'm launching a blog of writing advice. If you've ever dreamed of writing a novel, I hope you'll find some kind and useful advice from this "Ballet-scarred rhinoceros". #amwriting #amwritingfiction
www.rosiefiore.com/.../your-tit....
www.rosiefiore.com/.../your-tit....
Hatchard's book tree joy at St Pancras
November 12, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Hatchard's book tree joy at St Pancras
This recent rejection properly knocked me. Now I've turned it into an erasure poem, I feel marginally better!
November 1, 2023 at 11:56 AM
This recent rejection properly knocked me. Now I've turned it into an erasure poem, I feel marginally better!
Pic "borrowed" from @nadiakbarb.bsky.social : here's me at the @jerichowriters.bsky.social London Festival of Writing being learned and teaching people about great first pages. #LFOW23
October 30, 2023 at 12:06 PM
Pic "borrowed" from @nadiakbarb.bsky.social : here's me at the @jerichowriters.bsky.social London Festival of Writing being learned and teaching people about great first pages. #LFOW23
Off to the @jerichowriters.bsky.social #FestivalofWriting in my middle-aged lady author uniform: Popsy book dress, Snag tights, denim jacket with feminist badges, sparkly trainers! See you there!
October 28, 2023 at 7:44 AM
Off to the @jerichowriters.bsky.social #FestivalofWriting in my middle-aged lady author uniform: Popsy book dress, Snag tights, denim jacket with feminist badges, sparkly trainers! See you there!
14yo has been away for a week in France with the school. I've missed him terribly. No mobile signal. He's just come back online. This is all I got. The teenage years are truly here
October 13, 2023 at 10:27 AM
14yo has been away for a week in France with the school. I've missed him terribly. No mobile signal. He's just come back online. This is all I got. The teenage years are truly here