Harriet Alida Lye

Author of LET IT DESTROY YOU (2023), NATURAL KILLER (2020), THE HONEY FARM (2018), and Serge the Snail Without a Shell. I read books and watch my kids eat.

[Mark Medley @itsmarkmedley]

"I found myself in a situation played out in Greek tragedies and Shakespeare plays: Is it better to know your fate, or not? If you do know your future, would you act to change it?" @harrietalida on taking control of her fate: https://t.co/AKospEk2yO

[West End Phoenix @westendphoenix]

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL WRITER! Our monthly fiction night returns to WE Central next Thursday with readings from @harrietalida and Rob Benvie

7pm start, admission by donation.

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@damienmoule She’s pro public transit, this is very on brand for you Damien

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@Cal_Irvine These buns do not math out

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@audrain @MMLitAgency Thank you Ashley ❤️🏆

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@clairecameron I loved that line too but the whole article kind of suggested to me that Donna Tartt should, in fact, be an option: why isn’t she? Her heft would provide such significance to an unknown author for both retail and readers, and she surely also relied on blurbs for her first books.

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There’s been a fly in my house for four days so unfortunately we have to move, squatter’s rights, it’s fly’s house for buzzing in now.

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I’m so excited to be working with @liv_maidment at the @MMLitAgency - she’s been incredible at helping me develop my new novel, MOTHERCLOWN, and as I fall deeper under its pull her guidance is helping me keep my target in focus. This is the fun part.

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@kingsbookstore @amazon WHAT?!

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@awomanskwarned @alanawhitman @bananafitz @akkabah ooh

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I’ve set my new novel in my favourite city and named all the main characters’ friends after my friends and let me tell you, this is the most fun I’ve ever had writing.

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@jendziura I sew clothes for myself (I don’t do alternations for other people) but this would definitely be an easy job, to reinsert the elastic and re-shirr the middle. Would take an hour or two! You should get it done 🧡🧵

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@haleycullingham This is for sure a different bear! Look at how close the eyes are in the pantsless one.

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I loved my teacher in grade six so much and she just got in touch with me to say she’s so happy to find out I’m an author and that I was her favourite student ever, of all time. If you, too, were a teacher’s pet, I highly recommend this feeling.

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@LiteraryHoarder Thank you!

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One month in the world! My goal as a writer is to be understood (if that sounds simple then try writing a book and having a person read it) and I’m grateful that this novel has found the people who see and feel what I hoped they would.

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Every time I vacuum I feel like my house loses ten pounds

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@NabenRuthnum Hahahaha

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@NabenRuthnum Hopefully it accidentally does huge sales for the same reason too, then.

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@clairecameron @kiarakent SLICE: a novel