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Nature, innit. 💜🌿⠀

(Obligatory disclaimer: walked through the park during my 1 allotted walk per day, while being my best socially-distanced ninja self. I did not linger. I did not collect $200. Am now home again & about to watch Westworld because tbh I love the indoors. 😇)

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✍️ Author, #DeadRinger
📚 Reader of crime fiction, YA, and anything thought-provoking
📍 Bristol, UK
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Nature, innit. 💜🌿⠀
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(Obligatory disclaimer: I walked through the park during my one allotted walk per day, while being my best socially-distanced ninja self. I did not linger. I did not collect $200. I am now home again and about to watch Westworld because tbh I love the indoors. 😇)⠀
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Looking for something to do at the weekend? I'm taking part in an online literary festival (live on Zoom) called Stay At Home Fest. Lots of big names, like Louise Welsh and CL Taylor.⠀
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My session ("Writing your crime debut and getting it published") is on Saturday 28 March at 6pm. No registration necessary, just hop on the free Zoom call at 6pm.⠀
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#Repost @borrowbox⠀
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Go snag a copy of the #DeadRinger audiobook from your local library via the BorrowBox app. 🎧📗⠀
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How do you feel about unlikeable protagonists? 🤔⠀
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I love them -- provided they’re served up with acerbic wit. #MyYearOfRestAndRelaxation is raw, unbridled and very funny. 🔪⠀
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#ottessamoshfegh #audiobook #audiobooks #audiobookstagram #audiobooklover #audiobooklove #audiobooksrock #audiobookreview #audiobookworm ⠀
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What books were you o b s e s s e d with as a child? 📚⠀
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For me, it was Joan Aiken’s Wolves Chronicles, starting with #TheWolvesOfWilloughbyChase⠀
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I used to make little stacks of my pocket money, ready to go to the bookshop to get the next in the series. 👛 And the first “novel” I ever tried to write was a blatant rip-off, about a plucky orphan in Victorian times. 🤣⠀
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My mum, bless her, bought about a million copies (actual number: 7) of #DeadRinger to give to relatives and family friends -- whether they wanted them or not.⠀
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I wasn’t totally sure about this plan… 🤔⠀
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However, today she informed me that C, an elderly family friend of ours, stayed up past midnight reading Dead Ringer, because she was enjoying it so much. C is also refusing to lend her special signed copy to her son, in case he loses it. ⠀
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My kind of lady. There’s no worse sin than losing a book. 🤣⠀
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Also, “stayed up past my bedtime reading” is becoming my new favourite compliment. 🥰⠀
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My sister sent me this card recently: these are certainly my feelings on writing a lot of the time! 😅⠀
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This book is HOT! 🔥⠀
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By that I mean… in demand. 😉 I ordered it through the library literally 6 months ago. I’ve only had it checked out a couple of weeks and it’s already been requested by another patron. *speed-reads frantically*⠀
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Do you often find yourself reading against the clock to get a book back to the library in time? ⏰⠀
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#Repost. Thanks to @kellylovesboooks for the awesome review of #DeadRinger 😎
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Book review for Dead Ringer today. @nicolamartinwriter @sarabandbooks
The book caught my attention when I saw the cover and some promotion on social media. The premise is simple but oh so clever. There is now an app that when you upload your photograph, it will match you to your doppelganger. Ella and Jem did just that and the similarities are jaw-dropping. They decide to meet up in person, see how alike they really are. What would you do if your double was living a better life than you? But who’s life is better than the others?
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I was sucked in by the first page, and then it never let me go. I read a couple of two-person points of view books last year and after a few back and fourth chapters they can become stagnant. So going into Dead Ringer I had an air of hesitancy and a feeling of hope that this one would be different. Hope prevailed because it is so fast-paced you hardly have time to breathe. It is one of those books that make you have those awkward moments that make you hold your breath. .
I liked reading about both characters, they may look alike but that’s where the comparison ends. I loved the character Katsu, who is Jem’s friend. He really makes a great impression as a character and I would love if there was a Dead Ringer sequel with him and his doppelganger.
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With the way in which the world moves so fast especially technology-wise. The app could really happen and that’s quite scary. For a debut novel, Nicola Martin has brought to life the 21st-century technology and mixed it together with a killer thriller. .
Although my review is published today, I read the book back in January. At the time I had a light bulb go off in my head. What if I was reading my book of the year in January? It is definitely a book that remains with you and makes you think what.
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Modern, fresh, millennial-friendly and highly addictive!
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#bookreview #scottishblogger #deadringer #books #reading #books #fiction #bookstagram #bookblog

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Do you have the same reading tastes as your parents? 👪⠀
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I definitely don’t. My dad mostly reads golf books; my mum reads a lot of pre-1900 classics.⠀
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However, one of my most treasured possessions is my copy of The Catcher In the Rye. It’s travelled overseas with me and I’ve used it to write more than one essay while I was studying American Lit.⠀
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The book used to belong to my mum. As the inscription suggests, it was a present to say thank you for knitting a friend a scarf. (So wholesome. 🥰)⠀
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The kicker? My mum did not actually like “Sue” very much (yiiikes) and she didn’t like The Catcher In the Rye either. 😬⠀
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Bless her for hanging on to it, though, because it ultimately made its way into the hands of an American Lit junkie (me) and it had a formative impact on me. (I still think Holden Caulfield is a masterclass in characterisation.) ✨⠀
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Reading a book is easy, right? Wrong! 📖⠀
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Doing a book reading in public is one of those things I always dreamed of. Until #DeadRinger was published and I realised I actually… had to… stand up… in front of people… and READ. ⠀
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Yikes. As the date of my book launch approached, panic set in. 😬⠀
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I dealt with the panic the only way I know how: research. I read tons of blog posts about how best to do a public reading. 🤓⠀
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You might think it’s just a case of standing up and reading your first chapter? Nope.⠀
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I ended up doing a hard-edit of my first chapter, cutting the scene down to 800 words (5 minutes of out-loud reading time). In the process, I cut out a character! Yes, that’s right, tall drink o’ water Katsu appears in the opening pages of the book, but NOT in my reading. Trying to juggle multiple ‘voices’ was just too hard, so he had to go. 🤦‍♀️⠀
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Then I did my best to memorise the passage from my book. Why bother? you might ask. Well, my pet peeve is public speaking where the speaker just looks down at their notes the whole time. Public speaking rule no1: look at your audience! That necessitated me memorising my “reading”... and what a lie that term turned out to be. 😉⠀
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The important thing is: the reading at my book launch went off without a hitch. Whew! 😅⠀
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Happy Saturday! Which books from this #rainbowstack have you read? 💜💛💙⠀
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It’s been a week since #DeadRinger was published!⠀
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I’ve been incredibly touched by the support and positive reviews I’ve received. My biggest worry was that this book I’d spent 5 years of my life on would be released and… no one would care. *sad trombone* 😕⠀
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In fact, the opposite has been true: friends, family and even (gasp) strangers have told me how much they’ve enjoyed Dead Ringer. It means so much to me, honestly. 😊⠀
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What’s the last YA murder mystery you read? 🔪⠀
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I just finished #OneOfUsIsLying on audio and I’m in the mood for more YA mysteries, so hit me up with your best recs. 🖤⠀
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Was high school the best time of your life?⠀
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Not for me. 🙈 Not for Tegan and Sara, either, based on their memoir, High School. Have you read it?⠀
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Scenes from the #DeadRinger book launch on Friday. 💃
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Check out those #faces from my reading of the first chapter. 🤦‍♀️🤣
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#Repost
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Love this photo of #DeadRinger. Thanks @honestmamreader 😊
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@honestmamreader 📚 #BlogTour 📚
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#goodmorning 😊 and #happyleapday What are you all planning on doing on this extra day? .
It's my stop on the #deadringer @nicolamartinwriter #RandomThingsTours blog tour today. Here's a little snippet of my review. For the full review go give my blog a check 😊 #linkinbio👆 .
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The synopsis to this book drew me in instantly. Imagine having an app that would find your exact double, and then you could go and meet your own doppelganger. What would you do?
I found this concept very eerie yet intriguing. There's so much good that could come from finding your Dead Ringer, however, there are so many bad things that you could get up to....
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Writers, where’s your favourite place to write? 🖋️⠀
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I do the bulk of my writing at home, sitting at my desk, but I do like to scurry off to a cafe every now and then. A change of scene usually sparks new ideas for me. 🌟 Plus: tea.⠀
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Which is your favourite Tana French novel? 🔎⠀
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I loved In the Woods and, obviously, I have a soft spot for doppelganger-tastic The Likeness. I haven’t read this one yet, but I’m excited to dive in.⠀
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#DeadRingerFunFact no9: my initial inspiration for the book was a clickbait article.⠀
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“I found my twin on YouTube.” 👯⠀
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When you’re scrolling distractedly through Twitter, that’s the sort of thing that catches your eye. 👀 Some 5 years ago, I stumbled across the story of Anais Bordier and Samantha Futerman, a pair of twins born in South Korea and adopted separately, in France and the USA respectively. The details of the case of didn’t stick with me, but the mode of discovery did: they found each via YouTube and Facebook.⠀
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It spun me off thinking about social media and how easy it is to find and connect with people via the internet. But what if the person you found wasn’t your twin but your non-blood-relative doppelganger?⠀
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#DeadRinger quickly crystallised in my mind as a story about two women from completely different walks of life who just so happen to look identical. They meet through an app that lets you find your “double”.⠀
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