Vicky Brewster (they/them)

@vickybrewster.bsky.social

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✏️Copy & developmental editor, & indexer 👻Gothic, horror & sci-fi academic 🧑‍🏫 Occasional lecturer & support at Swansea U 🏳️‍🌈Asexual-agender-panromantic

Pink and blue flowers arranged in a circle around the words: “Turning up the heat on your writing - Newsletter - Mentoring and coaching”
Screengrab of an email that says: Thank you so much for meeting with me today! I have so many new ideas and I'm at peace with writing the book that I want to read rather than trying to shoehorn it into something else. Thank You!
A photo held up in front of a face, showing a man holding a child’s hand in a ruined building. The banner above reads ‘The Greatest Love Story’
A photo held in front of a face. The photo shows a young woman with long hair piloting a small boat. She is smiling uncertainly. A banner at the top reads, “When Vicky Met Dave”
Banner that reads ‘Let’s Talk Editing’. Pictures to the left and right of Cherry and Vicky. Event details say: Join us on Zoom. Sunday 8th June 4-5pm BST
A photo held up in front of a face, showing a kid with their back to the camera, looking over their shoulder. They are wearing a long T-shirt and their blonde hair falls to their waist. The room around them is clutter.
A person holding a photo in front of their face. The photo shows a woman and child sitting on a rock beside a river
A photo held in front of someone’s face showing a man in a leather jacket holding a small blonde child’s hand. In the background are bookshelves
A photo of a young kid with long blonde hair in a floral dress unwrapping a present. Light reflects off the photo. It is held in front of someone’s face. Bookshelves in the background. At the top a banner that reads, “Am I Interestjng?”
Photo of a computer screen showing a web page titled ‘Vicky Brewster: Author Profile’
Vicky wrapped in a blue stripy blanket like a seven year old playing Mary in a Nativity play
Picture of the books The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada and How to Crack Cryptic Crosswords by Tim Moorey on a blue stripy blanket
A slightly blurry tabby looking sad but determined, forcefully held back by a hand from off camera. The edge of a plate in the bottom corner
A half-wrapped present with rainbow washy tape peeling off from all over it
Picture of the TV showing a still from The Box of Delights, with an enormous puppet fox head looming out from the darkness
A selfie of Vicky in an amazing hand crocheted hood-hat that looks like a fox head
A large sunken round bath tub in the middle of the hotel room. Lots of red carpet. Morris etched with naked figures on the wall behind
A very pink sweaty happy Vicky selfie
An infographic of Vicky's reading in November. None books read, 2557 pages, average rating of 3.75. Highest rated books: We Used to Live Here, The Half -Life of Valery K, and Crypt of the Moon Spider. Average book length 264 pages, average time to finish 52 days. Some pie charts and graphs showing I read mostly fiction, mostly print books, mostly horror, and a sharp reading spike on mid November
A page with two columns of index, with a bunch of entries crossed out
Screen grab from Facebook that says "*So* well-written! I keep thinking I've got a new unread Poirot to carry on reading*"
Close up of Woolfie, a sandy tabby cat, sleeping on a lap with her face smooshed into the fabric
Screen grab from Bluesky showing a post explaining the pins feed is running behind since November 14
An office chair and desk with monitor, keyboard, notebooks, pens, etc. Poirot, a small grey tabby cat, sits in the office chair
Picture of two monitors. The left shows the title proof page of Shakespeare's Afterlife in the Royal Collection, the right a Cindex window with a draft index
An advert for a carols by candlelight dinner, in which you can join in for Christmas spirt (rather than spirit)
Screen grab from LinkedIn with the comment "This is an awesome piece of work. At over 8000 words, it maps and codifies the material in such a way that I feel I've learned about the material afresh"
Vicky in their early twenties, full length, with an arm around their first husband. He is a tall skinny white guy in his forties in a blue jumper and jeans. Vicky is THIN with long brown hair tied back in a light blue t-shirt and jeans. Vicky is barely smiling. There is a waterfall in the background
Vicky in their mid-twenties. Very femme with long brown hair in an up-do with cute tendrils falling in their face, lying on their front with dandelion flowers in the bottom right.
Cookie, a very large white cat with dark grey splotches, lying on a sheepskin, looking like a 70s porn star
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider. A red full moon over a grey background, surrounded by needles and thread and spiders. Below the moon, a figure's neck and lower head, with a house in place of the upper head
Cover of The Future. And orange and red background with a stylised image of a fox and rabbit head overlayed over each other in gold and black
The cover of Bunny. A hot pink background with a monochrome black rabbit in the centre
Cover of We Used to Live Here. A white sky with a blue house, the image sliced and pieced back together to look disjointed
Cover of The Half Life of Valery K. A snowy woodland with a dead bird in the foreground
Book cover of Alien Clay - bright yellow alien flora on a blue background
White graphic with black writing that says get to know my reading taste. For every like I will post one book I love
Selfie of Vicky with a grey tabby cat sat on their chest, their faces pressed together
Photo through one window into another, in which a small judgemental tabby cat glares at the picture-taker
Screen grab from my WhatsApp family group, in which 'morning' autocorrects to 'midnight', my mum is confused, and I choose to gently troll her
A tabby cat lying with a small squishy velvet cat balanced on her back
Screen grab from my Whoop fitness band display showing 3:45 hours of sleep, with the words 'try to get more sleep' circled in red
Vicky and Poirot cuddling
Screen grab from X, saying that my account has been deactivated. #Goodbye.
An open book in the foreground with a window in the background looking out over green hills with sheep and a pink-blue sky
A stack of ten mostly horror books on a dark blue chair
Two blurry tabby kittens playing
A very sweet tabby cat loaf
Sheaf of A4 paper with index text in two columns and some Handwritten annotations
Vicky in swish suit and tie with spouse in a bright green shirt
Vicky snuggled up under the covers being not even a little bit menacing
WhatsApp screen grab Mum: But how is that Japan's fault Me: I have transformed into Godzilla, and Godzilla releases their frustrations by destroying Tokyo My message has a laughing emoji reaction
A WhatsApp conversation between me and my mum in which I try to explain how and why I am Godzilla today
A large slice of lemon and almond cake messily covered in lemon curd and clotted cream
A three quarters completed jigsaw puzzle of the interior of a pirate ship
Two computer monitors on a resistively today desk, one showing a PDF titled 'introduction', the other a Cindex window with a long list of indexing entries
Book cover of Austerity Bites by Mary O'Hara
Flamecraft board game laid out on a green table with a man holding up the box lid
Upcoming availability graphic showing limited availability in October and November, open in December, and one slot left in January
Graphic with autumn leaves and Vicky's logo saying "Vicky's newsletter has moved (Again...)"