#neurodiverse

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Excited to join today!

I'm a NYT bestselling author, trad- and self-published with children's & adults books.

My character-led "The Players Act 1: All The World's A Stage" is about a troupe of down-on-their-luck strolling players with one last chance to save their company.

Expect:
Comedy & tragedy
characters


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Players-Act-All-Worlds-Stage-ebook/dp/B0DY8CM3LX/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Cover: Sarah Christie
www.amysparkes.co.uk

A parchment-coloured background with author name AMY SPARKES at the top. A ribbon tumbles down bearing the title: "The Players Act 1: All The World's A Stage". Tagline reads: "How far would you go to save what you truly love?" Four commedia dell-arte characters dressed in purple are dotted around the ribbon.

Hello! Looking forward to exploring Mastodon. I'm a writer and home-educator, into drinking lovely teas, exploring the coast, folk, history and storytelling.

I write for children and adults - books and scripts, and love stories in all their forms.

Hoping to make a positive difference where I can :)



and , I love how my , and discord is shaping up. We have plenty of SFF, +, and quite a few and writers and authors.

But I'd love to see more writers from my neck of the woods, and writers from anywhere in the world (I'm also hoping to find a BIPOC co-admin).

So let me know if you'd like an invite, especially if you're an Aussie/ Kiwi/ Islander, Asian (or based in Asia) or BIPOC writer!

I opened this hoping to be inspired but, no, it's just a list of all the things we're already saying with recommendations that lack any hope of being understood by those that would be expected to implement, much less any hope of adoption 🙄

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10501819/

hurt people hurt people is hard to remember when you're the people being hurt by the hurt people

Translation:
it's hard to remember that someone you love is hurting you because of their own hurt and not because you're a shit person who deserves it

Translation:
humans are clumsy and sometimes your mental illness stuff crashes against my mental illness stuff in spiky and painful ways

Translation:
shit is hard

Readers with ADHD, you're hereby invited to join a community of like-minded friends! 😊

We have a Facebook group (https://bit.ly/FBADHD) and a Discord server (https://bit.ly/DisADHD)! ✨

@adhd @bookstodon

A glowing blue book with glitters on a black background with several stars. Text: Reading with ADHD - Join our community of readers with ADHD on Facebook and Discord.

reviewed The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Don Tillman, #1)

Graeme Simsion, Dan O'Grady: The Rosie Project (AudiobookFormat, 2014, Simon & Schuster)

An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially …

I am far too close to the subject matter to review this objectively

3½⭐️/5 (fine, but some quite significant issues)

On the one hand, yay for autism rep in romance, and yay for making the POV MC the autistic one.

On the other hand, making that autistic MC also a buffoon of the “unemotional nerd” stereotype is … a choice, I guess? One could argue that he’s just not interested in engaging in society’s judgment of his differences. And that’s a valid read. But it’s not a particularly positive stereotype, and yet it’s also the stalking horse of the entire story.

There are parts of the autistic POV MC’s experience to which I could absolutely relate. I can’t flat-out say it’s an unrealistic representation. An effort was made?

So … YMMV, I guess.

Tags: #FirstPersonPOV #LearningToLove #Neurodiverse #RomCom #SinglePOV #SlowBurn #StructureMeetsWhimsy