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  "description": "A gently broiling Thursday.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-25T09:09:04.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.davidgoodman.net",
  "tags": [
    "this interview on the BFS Podcast with writer pal of mine Katalina Watt",
    "Bookshop",
    "Waterstones",
    "Amazon",
    "this excellent piece my friend Lorraine Wilson wrote a while ago about losing and finding an agent",
    "I'm visiting Waterstones Kirkcaldy"
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  "textContent": "Damn, still glad I'm not down south. Even up here, ten degrees cooler, I slept like absolute shit.\n\nLovely night last night at Haunted Happenings with my friends MK Hardy and Heba Al-Wasity - it was a really nice event with a great discussion. And I met my former PR person from Headline, Ollie Martin (for the second time in a week, as he was also at Capital Crime) which was lovely. He's at Transworld now, but we chatted about book 2 and how he's finding his new job. Then everyone went to the pub and I got to hang out with my writer pals for the evening, which was a delight.\n\nI then got home and barely slept, but oof, it seems a _little_ cooler this morning? This is exhausting.\n\n**ON DECK:** As a result of the late night/no sleep/early wakeup combo I didn't get much done today, only 239 very, very slow words. But progress is progress.\n\n**LISTENING:** Loved this interview on the BFS Podcast with writer pal of mine Katalina Watt, talking about their debut novel SALTSWEPT (Bookshop, Waterstones, Amazon).\n\n**WATCHING:** Didn't watch anything last night as I was at the above event. But back to WIDOW'S BAY tonight I think.\n\n**READING:** More of DECEPTION by Alan Parks (Bookshop, Waterstones, Amazon) over lunch yesterday. Nearly done and enjoying it a lot.\n\n**LINK:** Another discussion came up in the debub Discord I'm guest-mentoring in and I had cause to post this excellent piece my friend Lorraine Wilson wrote a while ago about losing and finding an agent. It's very much worth a read.\n\n**UP NEXT:** Hopefully better sleep tonight. Then a solid day of drafting tomorrow, one last book event for June and then nothing for a week (until I'm visiting Waterstones Kirkcaldy next Friday).\n\nNext week, I hope mostly to sleep better and be doing edits on Project VAULT. We'll see how it goes.\n\nOnwards!\n\n🔗\n\nSome purchase links on this page are affiliate links, which help support this website and my work.",
  "title": "Daynote - Thu 25 Jun",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-25T09:09:04.530Z"
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