Miriam Landor

Books I read or listened to in February - so many good ones here!

The first anniversary is paper! An important milestone  It came to me with a jolt that it’s almost a year since the publication of my memoir, Stumbling Stones: the Holocaust, my family and me. The timespan between start…

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The Tree Angel Valentine's Post.

A non-slushy valentine story - wonderful writer open.substack.com/pub/jeanette...

The books I finished in January - some are brilliant (top new author find: Mary Lawson), some good-enough, some meh

“How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold” In his Homily on Christmas Day, 25 December 2025, Pope Leo XIV said: “Dear brothers and sisters, since the Word was made flesh, humanity now speaks, crying out with God’s own desire to encoun…

"How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold" theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/27/h...

Q&A about ‘Stumbling Stones: the Holocaust, my family and me. Barbara Stevenson, a fellow Orkney author, interviewed me about my recently published memoir Stumbling Stones: the Holocaust, my family and me’. Barbara:  Your book focuses on your …

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Two book launches.
Ten years apart.
Note to self: write faster!

Kennedy, H., Landor, M., & Todd, L. (2015). Video enhanced reflective practice: professional development through attuned interactions. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Miriam Landor ‘Stumbling Stones: the Holocaust, my family and me’ 2025

Today’s the day! Support local authors and get ahead with your Christmas shopping! 12-4, Peedie Kirk Hall, Kirkwall, Orkney.

- Second Guessing A simple game where you are asked to count a certain number of seconds. Play normal levels, Zen levels for calmness, or the monthly challenge. Completely free!

Can you beat my score? I just scored 95 in a Second Guessing monthly challenge! #SecondGuessing www.secondguessing.net/shared/chall...

Are Your Writing Goals in Line with Your Core Values? Wherever you are in your writing career, it’s easy to assume that what you want is big advances, a high profile, major prizes, and festival appearances because that’s what every writer wants, right?

Writers: this is a fruitful exercise open.substack.com/pub/jennyale...

Thursday 20th November at 6.30pm: Join us in the bookshop to hear Miriam Landor in conversation about Stumbling Stones. Sign up here: goldenharebooks.com/products/stu... @orkml.bsky.social

I’m enjoying the book so much!

NOVEMBER 18 - STUMBLING STONES – THE HOLOCAUST, MY FAMILY AND ME BOOK LAUNCH

If you live nearby, or have friends or family members who do, my London book event for ‘Stumbling Stones:the Holocaust, my family and me’ takes place at the Quaker Bookshop on Tuesday 18 November. All welcome! It will be lovely to see some friendly faces! bookshop.quaker.org.uk/november-18-...

Friends who are in or around Edinburgh on Thursday 20 November - you’re cordially invited to join me at the wonderful Golden Hare bookshop, St Stephen’s Street in Stockbridge.

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- Second Guessing A simple game where you are asked to count a certain number of seconds. Play normal levels, Zen levels for calmness, or the monthly challenge. Completely free!

I just scored 93 in a Second Guessing monthly challenge! #SecondGuessing www.secondguessing.net/shared/chall...

#fantasy #authors #IndieAuthor #nospicebooks #SelfPublishing

So exhausting..

The Grapes of Grousing

The Good Gatsby.

Snap!

The Testaments, Margaret Atwood:
“‘Life is not about hair,” I said then, only half jocularly. Which is true, but it is also true that hair is about life. It is the flame of the body’s candle, and as it dwindles the body shrinks and melts away.’ What a brilliant writer!

@drnaomifisher.bsky.social I was so disappointed when reading your otherwise excellent book ‘Changing our minds’ that you keep calling England’s testing system ‘UK’. I live, work and brought up our children in Scotland - we have a different education system.

Cumberland Council will divest finances from companies that deal with Israel Cumberland Council has set the wheels in motion for divestment from companies that either supply arms to Israel or support settlements in the Palestinian Territories

Cumberland Council has set the wheels in motion for divestment from companies that either supply arms to Israel or support settlements in the Palestinian Territories | LDRS Press release
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Edinburgh event:

In London and you need a copy of ‘Stumbling Stones: the Holocaust, my family and me’? Head for The Quaker Bookshop at The Quaker Centre Cafe, Euston Road. Treat yourself to a coffee and a browse through the shelves…

Yes! But too few, too late

A canal cruise boat docked in front of the Anna Frank Huis in Amsterdam. A tree grows in front of the house.

For the last time this trip I passed the 'Anna Frank Huis'. Walked the streets inset with Stumbling Stones in remembrance of the Jewish population of #Amsterdam murdered in the #Holocaust
We globally said #NeverAgain but morbidly I wonder, what will the future memorial to #Palestinians look like?

Well done! All I have achieved today is constructing a Writing Plan for the still-unwritten chapters… but at least I know the size of the task ahead so I feel it’s all under control (ha!)

AND we must stop selling armaments to Israel!!!

I'm Done With Social Media Or: why I have a blog now.

this Caroline Crampton essay about how tradpub forcing authors to do social media is less to sell books and more to shift the burden of a book's success onto the author... I'm not traditionally published but it feels right to me www.carolinecrampton.com/im-done-with...