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Happy Christmas, here's your jury summons!

A Wednesday kind of newsletter on a Friday

I cry a lot, but I am so productive

Reader, I bought the Elf

The Ghostwriter of Christmas Past is out *today*!

Eight weeks of exercise, and not an endorphin to be seen

Looks like I picked the wrong week to release my new audiobook

A Brief History of Our Half-Assed Halloweens

Want to listen to my audiobook for free?

I spent the week in the Scottish Highlands, then came home and bought cushions

I got called for jury duty right before my book deadline

The Novel Without a Name Has a Name!

I went to a Scottish island and figured out why I was unpopular in primary school

How I write a book is not how Nicole Kidman writes a book

I need to change the name of the book I'm writing

Why is everyone a 'girlie' all of a sudden?

I'm trying to write a novel in 50 days...

Someone left bottled water for our village, and now people on Threads hate me

The holidays are over* and now I need a holiday

I've been stranded in the south of England

I went on holiday and didn't document it on social media...

Dear Diary, someone hacked my Facebook account and spent £300 advertising ugly shoes

Everything I learned from going 'viral' on Instagram

My 6-year-old is getting anonymous hate mail

Dear Diary, I saw the Eras Tour, and found my people

Dear Diary, I bought a thermal vest in June

Dear Diary, I took Instagram off my phone...

Someone tried to sabotage my book release

Overthinking Friendship Bracelets

The neighbours shamed my child on Facebook over sidewalk chalk...

Dear Diary, my child is old enough to be embarrassed by me, and I have the same shoes as Rishi Sunak

Dear Diary, instead of counting sheep, I count worse-case scenarios

Dear Diary, my 6 year old thinks I'm famous

I got to live in my dream house for two days, and it basically ruined my life

Dear Diary, I went to Loch Ness and almost burned down the hotel*

Dear Diary, I'm planning a 'loch-down'

Dear Diary, my child had to wear PJs to school, and I'm shook

The Kate Middleton Photoshop scandal has made me feel old

Dear Diary, I went to the cinema for the first time in years

The Awkward Girl's Guide to the Week | In Which There is Speculation

The Awkward Girl's Guide to the Week | In Which There Are Numbers

Dear Diary, I gave up piano, and now I'm learning guitar

The Awkward Girl's Guide to Body Lotion

The Awkward Girl's Guide to January

Re-Watching Friends Has Soft-Launched My Midlife Crisis

Re-Reading My Teenage Diaries: January 1990

I hate yoga, but I'm going to try to do it anyway

Dear Diary, I'm going to learn to play 'Cardigan' on the keyboard