Amy 💕🐾📚

I’m a postie & married to a postie. With 2 fabulous Labradors, Jeffrey & Jimmy. Trying to conquer my ever growing book list. Am Reading #Elantris

[Amy 💕🐾📚 @JeffPlusJimmy]

The amazing @iaindwelch has drawn my two boys & they are absolutely perfect, thank you so much Iain x #Labrador #LoveMyDogs #DogsofTwittter

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Amy 💕🐾📚 @JeffPlusJimmy]

@jk_rowling Entered & donated. An amazing charity & a chance to share a KFC with an absolute legend xx

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Does anyone have a spare Irony-meter? Mine just blew up.

[Amy 💕🐾📚 @JeffPlusJimmy]

I'm fundraising for Alzheimer's Society. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving https://t.co/vTJwX23hd0 #Trek26 #Eryri

[Bruadarach Labradors 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Bruadarach_labs]

Please share.
Let's help Jasper home where he belongs .
Missing in the Bristol area.
#jasper #Bristol

[Rory Cellan-Jones @ruskin147]

0245 December 17th 2022
Happy 2nd Gotcha Day #sophiefromromania !

[Rory Cellan-Jones @ruskin147]

Love coming down early each morning to make tea and finding #sophiefromromania snug in her big bed - not hiding behind the sofa as she did for her first 7 months with us

[Rory Cellan-Jones @ruskin147]

Well we got down to the beach below our holiday home but #sophiefromromania required a certain amount of carrying from the valiant prof. Still she made it back uphill under her own steam!

[Andrew Cotter @MrAndrewCotter]

And if you're missing the dogs, I am even more. Here's the genuine sound of Mabel. Barks about twice a year, but often chatty, usually expressing concern about something.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I see you, and I raise you one Himdia Stillaboy.

[Crimble Crumbs @CrimbleCrumbs]

Jane has had enough #LabourLosingWomen 1/2

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Landing Puffin! 🥰
#APuffinAnHour 🐦

[Steve Cavanagh @SteveCavanagh_]

Want to win one of these?
Proof copies have arrived for Witness 8.
Eddie Flynn returns 1.8.2024
Retweet/repost and follow me to enter the giveaway.
Don’t forget you can win Eddie Flynn merch when you preorder Witness 8 (see pinned post)
#giveaway

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

To cheer everyone up, here's a little Puffin going for a little walk. 😊😍🐦❤️

[Chris Whitaker @WhittyAuthor]

Here we go! I have one signed limited edition proof of my new book All The Colours Of The Dark up for grabs! FOLLOW & RETWEET and my lovely daughter will choose a winner on Friday! #win #Competition #giveaway #free @orionbooks

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen!🙏
To make it worth sharing, here's 'The Watcher'... a Barn Owl on the Somerset Levels. 😍🦉
Thank you very much! 😊🐦

[Rory Cellan-Jones @ruskin147]

A bit more freedom for #sophiefromromania with the prof skilfully handling a long lead

[Wraithmarked Creative @Wraithmarked]

🎉#BOOKGIVEAWAY REMINDER🎉

Ultra rare proof copy of Travis Baldree's LEGENDS & LATTES deluxe edition!

Follow for 4 chances, #RT for 2, Like/Comment for 1 each!

Winner announced next Friday! We ship internationally! #amreading #amwriting #book #amreadingfantasy

[Amy 💕🐾📚 @JeffPlusJimmy]

@MWCravenUK @DHHlitagency @TheCrimeVault Just booked a ticket for event @berwynbookshop see you then 👍🏻

[Orion Publishing @orionbooks]

Due to phenomenal demand we're nearly out of proofs of the incredible new @WhittyAuthor novel All the Colors of the Dark, and so are about to print a final extra run.

But for now we have only a handful left - and Chris has signed them! Repost this for the chance to win one...