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What a gift to have someone articulate and examine

What a gift to have someone articulate and examine the process of creation. I tried to find a quote to put here but it feels like every line in this book resonates. Thank you @charlottewoodwriter for making me feel less alone and more heartened on my writing journey.
#newreleasefiction #theluminoussolution #amreading #readingnonfiction #creativewriting #writinginspiration #booksforlife

Rainy Monday morning French homework (croissants e

Rainy Monday morning French homework (croissants et cafe de rigour). I’m re-learning this beautiful language as part of my immersion in my current WIP, which is set in France. It’s hard to believe that I studied this language at university, lived there for nearly a year and was once fluent, but it’s slowly starting to come back. ❤️ 🇫🇷 @afsydney #french #frenchlanguagecourse #amwriting #writerlife #lovelearninglanguages #writinginspiration

Happy Love Your Bookshop Day ❤️ I’ve always

Happy Love Your Bookshop Day ❤️
I’ve always loved spending time moseying around in bookshops. They’ve always felt like welcoming, inspiring places full of treasures (I’ve never been asked to leave one, even after hours!) They’re completely bound with my experience of reading and writing. Sometimes when I get disillusioned with the process of writing I seek out a bookshop to remind me why I do it.
So exciting that many of my beloved local bookshops (pictured here generously supporting my books) are opening again soon.
#loveyourbookshopday2021 #bookshopsofinstagram #bookshops #supportsmallbusiness #supportlocal

It struck me today, as The Beautiful Words goes to

It struck me today, as The Beautiful Words goes to print, how the process of writing a book goes from gazing into an infinite sky to studying a single grain of sand in your hand. It begins with the widest, wildest dreams, following vague ideas and inklings, listening for your character’s voices, and ends with agonising over the placement of a single comma.
I love every wrenching, joyful, strange and challenging part of it.
#amediting #thebeautifulwords #writinginspiration #newreleasebooks #writingcommunity #writingtips

Completely humbled by this beautiful review. Thank

Completely humbled by this beautiful review. Thank you @shelleygardner_writer

Posted @withregram • @shelleygardner_writer Honestly, I have never struggled so much with writing a review of a book, nor written as many drafts.

But trying to find the words to do justice to @vanessamccausland exquisite third novel, The Beautiful Words, has proven more difficult than I could ever have imagined.

Vanessa’s eloquent prose lies so delicately on every, single page. The Beautiful Words introduces the reader to characters with such depth & vulnerability that by the end of the novel you not only feel that you know them, but their pain has etched its way deep underneath the layers of your skin.

It is a dual timeline story about betrayal and forgiveness, and friendships lost but never forgotten. The subtle layering of the plot within the story sees you staying up late into the night, not ready to close the cover. And the story unfolds until the very last page.

The setting is visceral, the backdrop an island off the rugged Tasmanian coast. You can feel the biting wind and the harshness of the dark waves that drag up the secrets from the past and the darkest places within.

I ADORED this novel. I truly did not want it to end. It is filled with so many beautiful words.

The Beautiful Words now joins @hannahrichell divine The Shadow Year, & @leahswannwriter breathtaking Sheerwater, as the best books I have ever read.

Thank you to Vanessa & @harpercollinsaustralia for providing me with an ARC. The Beautiful Words hits shelves on December 1st.
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Loved talking to @maya.linnell.writes about her bu

Loved talking to @maya.linnell.writes about her bucolic book settings and lifestyle 💚
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Posted @withregram • @daniveebooks_wordsandnerds Friday TAKEOVER hosted by the lovely Vanessa McCausland chatting to amazing rural romance writer Maya Linnell about #MagpiesBend 💙💙💙

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When a friend sends you book mail for no other rea

When a friend sends you book mail for no other reason than that she needs you to share how beautiful a book is💙Thank you @charleyrico99 🙏
#readingtime #authorssupportingauthors #beautifulbooks #writinginspiration

Posted @withregram • @harpercollinsaustralia We'

Posted @withregram • @harpercollinsaustralia We're thrilled to show you the STUNNING cover of @vanessamccausland's enthralling new novel The Beautiful Words. It's about betrayal and forgiveness, the stories we tell, and the healing power of words.

Sylvie is a lover of words and a collector of stories, only she has lost her own. She has no words for that night at the lighthouse when their lives changed forever. What happened to cleave her apart from her best friend and soulmate, Kase?

Coming this December, The Beautiful Words is available to pre-order now >> link in bio ⬆️

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I’ve read some astonishingly good novels recentl

I’ve read some astonishingly good novels recently. Loved all these. One thing they had in common was that they consumed me in their various worlds. That’s what I always seek in books - to get lost in another’s mind and another landscape completely. That’s something no other medium can provide.
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Thank you @sandiedocker @penguinbooksaus for the b

Thank you @sandiedocker @penguinbooksaus for the beautiful book mail. Love Sandie’s small town settings and can’t wait to escape into this seaside one.
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Congratulations @marionfrithauthor on the launch t

Congratulations @marionfrithauthor on the launch today of your beautiful book #hereintheafter with @harpercollinsaustralia
This book made me cry within the first few chapters- something I’ve rarely experienced. It’s a story about a friendship between a veteran who fought in Afghanistan and a terrorist attack survivor. Full of darkness but ultimately a story of hope and healing. Something we need in the world right now.
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It’s so exciting to see early reading copies of

It’s so exciting to see early reading copies of my December release #thebeautifulwords going into the hands of beautiful readers who put such care and creativity into styling it. Thank you @pamelacookwrites ❤️💕🖤

Posted @withregram • @pamelacookwrites It’s always such a thrill to get book mail but when it’s as gorgeous as this it’s extra special.

I adored The Valley of Lost Secrets by @vanessamccausland and can’t wait to give into this ARC of The Beautiful Words, out in December.

It sounds like my kind of story! 💕

Thank you to @harpercollinsaustralia and Vanessa for this advance copy, and the gorgeous handmade card. 😍
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