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Will Carver

6 months

UPSTAIRS AT THE BERESFORD 😈 If you read the first one, you NEED this one. If you haven’t read the first one, don’t worry, this is technically the first one. 😉 #WhatDoYouWant

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

I know it’s not a cute dog or cat but, every year, he disappears into a hole in the garden and we worry for 4 months that he won’t emerge. But, of course, he always does. He’ll outlive us all. Always a glorious day when he returns. 🐢

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

In the queue for my son’s school play, listening to other parents, and I’ve come up with five people I want to kill in my next book.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY #giveaway RT & FOLLOW to win everything I’ve had published. Signed, dedicated & circled where ‘Nothing Important Happened Today’ is written in each one (+ other secrets) I’ll print the page from my latest book where the sentence is written, too.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

It’s #Giveaway time. 11th May will be 10 years since I was first published with #Girl4 . I’d like to give away copies of my last 4 @OrendaBooks * including a proof of #TheBeresford and a £20 @FourbearsBooks voucher. To enter: 1 - RT 2- Follow me & Fourbears 3- Tag a friend *signed

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

#Giveaway 📚 I had such a blast recording the PAGE ONE podcast, I’m going to give away one of their Writer’s Notebooks PLUS a copy of #TheBeresford and #PsychopathsAnonymous 1. RT 2. Follow 3. Tag a friend Thanks to @TariqAshkanani @OrendaBooks Will pick someone on 1st Feb.👍🏽

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Will Carver

@will_carver

9 months

📚 #GIVEAWAY TIME📚 Watch the video. I’m giving away 2 complete sets of Will Carver books and 5 copies of Suicide Thursday. - Follow - Repost - Tag a friend I’ll pick 7 winners next Friday. Easy. (UK-based for the complete sets. EU for 5x single books.) All signed/dedicated📚

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

I’d like to #Giveaway a limited edition (signed) hardback 📚 of #HintonHollowDeathTrip (only 250 printed!!) to celebrate 🎉 #Orentober and ⁦ @OrendaBooks ⁩ winning the Best Crime Publisher dagger. 🗡 #RT & #Follow for your chance. Will pick a winner on #Halloween 🎃

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

Took the kids with me to @bertsbooks , yesterday. My daughter asked, ‘Dad, can you make my new bedroom look like this bookshop, please?’

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

@Ticaleur I was mowing the lawn, turned round and he was legging it towards me.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Didn’t have an England top but I had a white t-shirt and some felt tips.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Going through some old papers and found my (dead) Nan’s old mobile phone. Charging up. Gonna text some family members I don’t like. 😂

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Ooooh. What do we have here? #PsychopathsAnonymous #WelcomeToTheClub @OrendaBooks

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Will Carver

@will_carver

11 months

Just finished packing for Harrogate.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

You travel all the way to @bertsbooks to sign books for #IndependentBookshopWeek and someone is wearing the same outfit. What are the chances? 😉 @OrendaBooks

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

Signing #SuicideThursday at @bertsbooks

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

How much is ‘a lot’? Asking for a friend. 😂 #editing

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

Thanks to @bertsbooks for hosting me today. I signed loads of copies of #TheDavesNextDoor 🚇 and met some lovely readers, who picked up some of my other books. It has crept up on me that publication is NEXT WEEK. @OrendaBooks #lookatthosespines 🌈

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

In other news, my girlfriend bought a new reading chair and it’s fucking brilliant.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Finally met up with @Beathhigh today at @icelandnoir . A proper gent who enjoys a proper beer. Have to say, bit of a highlight for me. And look at this festive building on the way to the venue. 🎅🏽🎄

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

You spend a couple of years getting a book right then someone spends 2 seconds on a review, which has no punctuation and over 10% of the words are spelled incorrectly. Still, I prefer it to any three-star review. 😊 #FuckFred

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

Half time at son’s football. So far a dad missed his son score a goal, a mum missed her son score a goal, a mum didn’t see her son crying on the floor, injured. All because they were on their phones. These are the people I kill in books. Anyway, second half...

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

When you’re helping your mate get ready to open his own independent bookshop and he lets you at the front window. 😉📚 ⁦ @FourbearsBooks ⁩ ⁦ @OrendaBooks ⁩

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

I wrote a book. Deleted it entirely. Wrote it again in a different way. Deleted it entirely. Wrote it AGAIN in a different way and it became #NothingImportantHappenedToday A load of work. Yours for #99p . 99 fucking pence. Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏽

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

I have 8 A-Levels, 1 AS-Level & a 1st-class degree. My job has very little to do with these. And most months I have to choose between eating or paying my rent. I guess my advice to A-Levellers is find what you love, keep learning, work hard, choose happiness, give something back.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

FINALLY. THEY HAVE ARRIVED. #SuicideThursday

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Hmmmm. What am I doing?

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

I know it seems like I’ve only just had a book published (I have) but I’ve got another one coming in July - ebook in May - and it looks like this 👇🏽👇🏽 CHECK IT OUT. #Eviliscoming @OrendaBooks

Liz Barnsley

@Lizzy11268

4 years

COVER REVEAL. It's only @will_carver 's stunning new novel #HintonHollowDeathTrip LOOK. Amazing. Want to know more? Clickety click the link for blurb and pre-order link. You do NOT want to miss this.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Received the finished copies of #HintonHollowDeathTrip today. I’ve never made an unboxing video before but thought I’d give it a go. *Sound on 😉 #HintonHollowHummusTrip @OrendaBooks

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

#NothingImportantHappenedToday Just kidding, my book is OUT NOW! 🍾🎉

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Apparently, my mum Googled ‘Gifts for psychos’ then bought me this. #PsychopathsAnonymous

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

Seven years after shutting down my website because I thought my writing career was over, the new one is almost ready. Simple, quirky, with Easter eggs everywhere, what else did you expect?

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Best review ever. 😂 @Mik_Brown1

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Typo of the day. 🙈

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

@FionaAnnCummins Could you just buy it a week later than you normally do? 😉

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

I just wrote off my car on the school run. (Nobody hurt.) Please buy my books. Thanks. 😭

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

I think there’s been a mistake...😉

Harrogate Festivals

@HarrogateFest

4 years

We're delighted to reveal this years #TheakstonAward longlist. Congratulations to our eighteen brilliant longlisted authors. #CrimeFiction #TheakstonsCrime

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Will Carver

@will_carver

9 months

…and the two winners of this pile are @clairehrocks and @LauraBlenes (I had picked someone else out but they decided to unfollow me, so congrats to Laura, who reaps the benefits.) 😉 Send me your details please.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

1 year

Many moons ago, a character on #Neighbours walked into a room holding a copy of #Girl4 - my first book. Tonight it showed up on #Eastenders . Another ten years and it might end up on #Hollyoaks . 😉

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

Can’t wait for @OrendaBooks to announce my new 23-book deal. 😉

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

I heard a rumour that proof copies of #NothingImportantHappenedToday are being printed. Shit is about to get REAL. #ThePeopleOfChoice @OrendaBooks How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member?

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Just back from weekly shop at Asda. Took my bags-for-life from Waitrose. So, when I unpack the car on my return, the neighbours think I’m doing much better than I really am. 😉 #LifeHack

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Gonna celebrate publication now. 🍺🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🍺🍾🍺🥃🍾🍺🥃🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🍺🍾🥃🥃🍾🍺🍺🍾🥃🍺🍺

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

I became an uncle today. I’ve been dying to have a kid I can hand back to someone else at the end of the day. 😉😊

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

Dear people of Earth (and Twitter), You don’t have to block someone who doesn’t agree with you. You don’t have to hate someone who does not share your opinion. Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

Question: How cool is my new light? Answer: Cool as fuck.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Got the kids’ end-of-year reports and, instead of posting a picture on social media, I just spoke to them privately about it to let them know my thoughts. I know, bit of a weird concept.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Thanks for all the lovely feedback on this beaut, today. (And the pre-orders, obviously.) #TheBeresford

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

What are you reading over the weekend? I’m reading this pile of shit.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Another day. Another book. #PsychopathsAnonymous

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

I have over half of the new book written. Today I have tweaked the first thirty pages and I like how they look. I’m not sure about the title or the cover or the other 200 pages. But things are looking up.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

2 days ago, I told my girlfriend I want to read A Christmas Carol in December. (I never have.) After working out this morning, a few of us were talking about how books make great presents at Christmas. Then she tells me she has something in the car for me. 😊 #buyabook

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

Well, would you look at that. Proofs are in! #NothingImportantHappenedToday

Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦

@OrendaBooks

5 years

LOOK LOOK LOOK!! Just arrived at Casa Orenda!! @will_carver ’s shocking, original, disturbing, outrageous #thriller #NothinImportantHappenedToday #proofs are HERE!! 😱😱😱

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

It was my birthday on Wednesday and I only got ONE (fiction) book. To be fair, though, it was the one I wanted.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

My mum got me something evil for the bookcase after reading #HintonHollowDeathTrip .

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Will Carver

@will_carver

6 years

Writing tip: Put unnecessary sex scenes in your book. When your editor says they should go, reluctantly agree and say, ‘Okay, I’ll get rid of them but we have to keep the scene where the dog gets murdered.’ #youarewelcome

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Will Carver

@will_carver

6 years

GUESS WHO’S BACK, MUTHAFUCKAAAAAAS!! #bookdeal #carverisdead #longlivecarver

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

6 years

"Daring" thriller to @OrendaBooks in two-book deal:

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Also, while nobody is listening, I did go for my booster yesterday. I queued up. Got the front. My appointment is 7th January. First time I’ve ever been early for anything. 🙈😂

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Today, my lovely friend, Alex, opened the doors to his bookshop. It’s the only indie in Reading (Caversham) and I’d love it if we could show some support by following and maybe even buying a book or twelve. Check him out here: @FourbearsBooks #supportanindie

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

My new book is about how people should be better - to themselves, to one-another. William is finding it ‘pretentious and boring’ and messaged to let me know. I downloaded a sample of his self-published book. I have opinions. I’m trying to be better. #HintonHollowDeathTrip

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Will Carver

@will_carver

1 year

5 years ago, today, I signed a contract with @OrendaBooks to publish two novels. The first of which was #GoodSamaritans . This year, they will publish our eighth collaboration #UpstairsAtTheBeresford . 😈

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Will Carver

@will_carver

6 years

My lovely yellow finished books. I expect to see waves of yellow on public transport in LESS THAN THREE WEEKS!!!! #GoodSamaritans @OrendaBooks

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

So, I’ve almost finished writing another book. My next one is planned out. I also have some notes down about a revisit to The Beresford after that, but I’ve just come up with a batshit crazy idea that I really want to write. May have to rejig the order of things. 🤯🔫

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

How awesome is the Czech cover for Nothing Important Happened Today? Very fucking awesome.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

My daughter made herself a daily to-do list. (Very organised.) But it’s that top right corner that got me. ‘Be happy. Be productive. Don’t Die.’ #Covid_19 #mantra 😂

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Will Carver

@will_carver

7 months

I don’t tell myself how, I just tell myself that I have to do it.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

Nothing important happened today. But something VERY important happens tomorrow - MY NEW BOOK. It’s out on eBook. Oh, and it’s called #NothingImportantHappenedToday

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

Came up with a second ending for the new book. Just need to write the 50,000 words that will go before it. #NothingImportantHappenedToday

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

I’m sure I’ve posted this before but it’s true. 😊

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

What is this in my hand? #TheBeresford

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

One of my best mates lives in China. I see him once a year. He texts me and says, ‘I’m back. Drink?’ This happened tonight. Always get into it like we haven’t been apart. I love it. It’s so easy. He’s asleep on my sofa now. Same as always. I’m finishing the wine.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

I might go on a bit for the next week but the #ebook of my new book #TheBeresford is published on Saturday(22nd). A bit different for me but certainly my quickest read. I reckon a few of you will get it finished over the weekend. You know, the cool ones? 😉😈 ⁦ @OrendaBooks ⁩

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Wowser! Can’t quite believe this list. Huge thanks to @GoldsboroBooks for considering my book. (I do love the criteria for this award.) Amazing to be a part of it. *cries* @OrendaBooks @KBBooks

Goldsboro Books

@GoldsboroBooks

4 years

Today, we are delighted to announce the longlist for the Goldsboro Books #GlassBell Award 2020. Each one is a genuinely unique tale for our time and narrowing it down to a shortlist of six will be no easy task! Congratulations to all the much-deserving authors.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

I’ve decided that a dry January does not include my writing whisky as it is merely a creative lubricant. #loophole

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Will Carver

@will_carver

11 months

I always like to travel to Harrogate on the train, drink wine and write. Train strikes now mean I’m driving. But I am picking up @antti_tuomainen from the airport and thinking of setting up some GoPros to document the road trip. Should be a hoot. 😉

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

Hoping to send completed book to agent/publisher at the end of next week. Predicted response: 1. You can’t do that at the end of a crime novel. 2. Do you have another book in a drawer that we could use instead?

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

#TheDavesNextDoor 🚇 is published THIS week. I don’t know whether you’ll read it but I do know that you probably won’t read another book that’s like it. @OrendaBooks

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Handed my book in to @OrendaBooks so I can now read for pleasure again. Ready to dive into this pile. (Unless Ash Mountain by @FitzHelen arrives today 😉)

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Look how hard I’m working! #IndieBookshopWeek @OrendaBooks

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Just answering some interview questions. 😂

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Sure, I missed out on the Theakston Crime Novel Of The Year award and the Glass Bell Award for #NothingImportantHappenedToday but they are announcing the Nobel Prize for Literature tomorrow, so I'm (obviously) on the edge of my seat........😂

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

It’s heeeeeeeeeere. And ‘deserves to become an instant classic’ I hear... 😉 #NothingImportantHappenedToday

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Got to say, this week in isolation hasn’t been too bad...

Harrogate Festivals

@HarrogateFest

4 years

Congratulations to @will_carver and @OrendaBooks . 'Nothing Important Happened Today' has been longlisted for the 2020 #TheakstonAward . Discover more here: #CrimeFiction #TheakstonsCrime

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Just seen this in my girlfriend’s downstairs toilet. Four bottles of bleach. She’s read Good Samaritans. She knows it takes six bottles, so I’m probably safe....

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

Went in to @ImaginedThings to sign some books with @WhittyAuthor and @TMLoganAuthor today. Lovely bookshop. Get in there now. LOADS of signed books by different writers. Lovely booksellers, too. And a wrapped-up mystery book that we couldn’t guess.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

I’ll be visiting several Waterstones stores on 22nd and I’ll be wearing a mask. 😷 I’ll only boycott them if they’re not stocking my new book, which comes out that day. I think that’s fair. 😉

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Screw branding.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

#PsychopathsAnonymous will be published in paperback on 25th November by @OrendaBooks . If you want to #PreOrder a #Signed copy of the book, please head over to @FourbearsBooks , my local independent book shop and they will sort you out. Go on, then. What are you waiting for?

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Halfway through the blog tour for #HintonHollowDeathTrip . Reviews have been amazing so I’m doing a #Giveaway of 2 sets of the trilogy. 1. RT 🗣 2. Follow 📲 3. Comment with either: EVIL = **** or GOOD = **** and fill in the blank. Ends 06.08.20 @OrendaBooks #Evilishere 👹😇

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

Wordle 230 2/6 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GOT MY FIRST TWO!! 🥃

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

A crazy day. Great reviews by the Telegraph, Express and both blog tour participants. Plus a really shit one on Amazon. I appreciate them all. A reaction is so much better than apathy. Still, fuck you, one-star. 😉😂

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Will Carver

@will_carver

6 years

I have 103 words of the new book written. Told my agent I’ll be finished by Christmas. I’d been drinking. Learn from my mistakes.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

Cancel gym. ✅ Quit Netflix. ✅ Get refund on summer AirBnB. ✅ Off to buy a house with all the savings. So simple.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

Until next time. xx

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

Landed in Sicily, my agent had messaged to say id been shortlisted for an award. Crazy. Always thought the only thing I’d be nominated for was ‘Writer Most Likely To Fuck Up His Career By Getting In His Own Stupid Way’. Gutted to lose that one in 2011. 😉

Jen Lucas ✍🐈📖🦩📚

@JenMedBkReviews

5 years

Congratulations to the shortlisted authors in the @CapitalCrime1 @AmazonPub #ReadersAwards In The #BestIndependentVoice category: Edward Carey @EdwardCarey70 Will Carver @will_carver Will Dean @willrdean Jean Levy @JeanELevy Matt Wesolowski @ConcreteKraken

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

I expected about 50 retweets. 😱 Winner to be drawn on Thursday. Follow instructions on original tweet to be in with a chance. If we hit 500 RTs, I’ll throw in some runners-up #GoodSamaritans .

Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

NOTHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED TODAY #giveaway RT & FOLLOW to win everything I’ve had published. Signed, dedicated & circled where ‘Nothing Important Happened Today’ is written in each one (+ other secrets) I’ll print the page from my latest book where the sentence is written, too.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

3 years

I don’t know the right way to celebrate the publication of a book but I’m drinking whisky and finishing the next one. (So close) #keepwriting

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Just finished writing #HintonHollowDeathTrip 🥃

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Will Carver

@will_carver

4 years

Look what I’ve got! 😱 #Eviliscoming #Evilishere

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Will Carver

@will_carver

5 years

Was planning on having the new book finished by November 14th. I’m 10 words in. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

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Will Carver

@will_carver

2 years

#SuicideThursday is officially published. Get your signed and dedicated copies from @FourbearsBooks Or go to your local bookshop and ask about this ‘new genre’. 😉

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