Vicky MacKenzie
@vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Writer, cat lady, John Ruskin obsessive, wrote a novel about medieval mystics. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Forgot to put this up - my amazing birthday book haul from January. So many treasures here! 📚😍
February 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Forgot to put this up - my amazing birthday book haul from January. So many treasures here! 📚😍
Happy birthday to me (2 weeks ago but I forgot to post my lovely birthday book haul!) Really looking forward to this - and the production is sumptuous 🖼😍
January 26, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Happy birthday to me (2 weeks ago but I forgot to post my lovely birthday book haul!) Really looking forward to this - and the production is sumptuous 🖼😍
Happy 3 year anniversary to this little weirdo 💙 #ForThyGreatPain
January 19, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Happy 3 year anniversary to this little weirdo 💙 #ForThyGreatPain
Shhh! I just got this, everyone be quiet, please. #HelenDeWitt @ndbooks.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Shhh! I just got this, everyone be quiet, please. #HelenDeWitt @ndbooks.bsky.social
Hell yes! The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones - I'm going in. 📚😍🥊
January 14, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Hell yes! The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones - I'm going in. 📚😍🥊
So lovely! Yours are a little ahead of mine... 🌾
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 AM
So lovely! Yours are a little ahead of mine... 🌾
Oh my god, this is amazing. So moving, so funny, so utterly brilliant. #FunHome by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Oh my god, this is amazing. So moving, so funny, so utterly brilliant. #FunHome by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social
My latest Substack post is live!
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
January 2, 2026 at 3:48 PM
My latest Substack post is live!
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
Been looking forward to this one for ages. Eight weeks of short fiction ahead of me while I teach my favourite course 'What Can A Short Story Do?' and hopefully write a few more stories of my own. Kicking off with #Openings by @lucycaldwell.bsky.social pub by @faberbooks.bsky.social. 📚✒️
January 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Been looking forward to this one for ages. Eight weeks of short fiction ahead of me while I teach my favourite course 'What Can A Short Story Do?' and hopefully write a few more stories of my own. Kicking off with #Openings by @lucycaldwell.bsky.social pub by @faberbooks.bsky.social. 📚✒️
I enjoyed watching Adam Mars-Jones on University Challenge last night, what an utterly charming man! So it seemed high time I read his novel BOX HILL @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. So far it's as charming as him... (and very rude for reading on the train 😉)
December 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I enjoyed watching Adam Mars-Jones on University Challenge last night, what an utterly charming man! So it seemed high time I read his novel BOX HILL @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. So far it's as charming as him... (and very rude for reading on the train 😉)
My Christmas haul. 📚🥰 More modest than past years as I asked for other stuff too. Seem to be leaning in to a certain kind of comfort read. The times call for it, I suppose.
December 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My Christmas haul. 📚🥰 More modest than past years as I asked for other stuff too. Seem to be leaning in to a certain kind of comfort read. The times call for it, I suppose.
My Book of the Year 🙃
I'm freakin obsessed. #BaxterDury
I'm freakin obsessed. #BaxterDury
December 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My Book of the Year 🙃
I'm freakin obsessed. #BaxterDury
I'm freakin obsessed. #BaxterDury
Life on Internet vs reality (0% chance of rain vs rain currently streaming down the window)
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Life on Internet vs reality (0% chance of rain vs rain currently streaming down the window)
Hurray! A very good post day - latest copies of @stingingfly.bsky.social @tolkajournal.bsky.social and @extrateethmag.bsky.social all arrived today! 📚✒️😍
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hurray! A very good post day - latest copies of @stingingfly.bsky.social @tolkajournal.bsky.social and @extrateethmag.bsky.social all arrived today! 📚✒️😍
This is awkward - no one has bid for a signed copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... yet. 😬
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is awkward - no one has bid for a signed copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... yet. 😬
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
This auction is now LIVE! Funds go to Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. I've donated a signed pb copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... and I'm happy to dedicate it if you're buying it as a present!
app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This auction is now LIVE! Funds go to Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. I've donated a signed pb copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... and I'm happy to dedicate it if you're buying it as a present!
app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
I am in love again.
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I am in love again.
Thank you @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social for recommending THE HERO OF THIS BOOK by the inimitable Elizabeth McCracken - what a deep and wise joy it is! A memoir written on the aftermath of her mother's death, it is so gloriously perceptive and witty and tender. #BookSky
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Thank you @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social for recommending THE HERO OF THIS BOOK by the inimitable Elizabeth McCracken - what a deep and wise joy it is! A memoir written on the aftermath of her mother's death, it is so gloriously perceptive and witty and tender. #BookSky
"Stella lounged against a cocktail cabinet whose glass frontage was engraved with the outline of a naked woman. I'm not going to be cowed, she thought. Not by nipples."
Bliss to be indoors on a rainy day reading my new favourite author. Thank you @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for this wonderful proof!
Bliss to be indoors on a rainy day reading my new favourite author. Thank you @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for this wonderful proof!
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"Stella lounged against a cocktail cabinet whose glass frontage was engraved with the outline of a naked woman. I'm not going to be cowed, she thought. Not by nipples."
Bliss to be indoors on a rainy day reading my new favourite author. Thank you @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for this wonderful proof!
Bliss to be indoors on a rainy day reading my new favourite author. Thank you @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for this wonderful proof!
Some tidy paws just for you 😘
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Some tidy paws just for you 😘
My reading companion 😍 I don't post enough cat pics. #MyCatGeoffrey
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
My reading companion 😍 I don't post enough cat pics. #MyCatGeoffrey
We're discussing Richard Flanagan's memoir QUESTION 7 in my 'Reading Like A Writer' book group on Thursday. Wow, it's quite a book! Can anyone think of anything remotely comparable in terms of his approach to memoir? Wildcards welcome! 📚
November 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We're discussing Richard Flanagan's memoir QUESTION 7 in my 'Reading Like A Writer' book group on Thursday. Wow, it's quite a book! Can anyone think of anything remotely comparable in terms of his approach to memoir? Wildcards welcome! 📚
Oh my god stop the bus! Look what just came through the door! A thousand thank yous to the magnificent @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and esp @marigoldatkey.bsky.social!
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Oh my god stop the bus! Look what just came through the door! A thousand thank yous to the magnificent @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and esp @marigoldatkey.bsky.social!
I am tickled by your enthusiasm - and always pleased to get recommendations!
In fact, I've checked the shelves and found this, so might well start here! (Better not start it today, I have at least 6 books on the go just now... 😂)
In fact, I've checked the shelves and found this, so might well start here! (Better not start it today, I have at least 6 books on the go just now... 😂)
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I am tickled by your enthusiasm - and always pleased to get recommendations!
In fact, I've checked the shelves and found this, so might well start here! (Better not start it today, I have at least 6 books on the go just now... 😂)
In fact, I've checked the shelves and found this, so might well start here! (Better not start it today, I have at least 6 books on the go just now... 😂)