Love, Lindsey - February 7th 2025

Well, hello there! Here we are, the first official Love, Lindsey newsletter and do I have any idea what I’m doing? Nope! Will I figure it out as we go and hopefully have some fun along the way? In theory! It’s the journey, not the destination, right?

Because this is a community, I asked you what you’d like to see and honestly, the answers were all over the place (which is why we’re friends) so here’s the current plan. You’ll be getting TWO newsletters from me each week covering the following:

Friday
Dear Diary – a general update of what’s happening, what I’m working on, where I’ve been and whatever other nonsense is weighing on my mind.

What I’m Reading – this one is pretty self-explanatory. I’ll share with you what I’m reading, and you should absolutely share right back should you feel so inclined.

Wednesday
What I’m Loving – TV? Movies? Snacks? Activities? Taylor Swift’s Grammy’s outfit? The Royal Rumble? This could be anything!Full Coverage – I know it’s not the same as the proper pod but my heart isn’t complete without some beauty love and I miss Full Coverage more than I could ever hope to tell you, so for now, I’m resuscitating her here and sharing beauty news, reviews and updates every single week.

So, that’s the plan. If there’s anything else you want to see, let me know! There will be additional content as and when it pops up – sneak peeks at upcoming books, Q&As, writing stuff, chats with friends – but this is what you can expect to see every week. Starting right now!

Dear Diary

Well, 2025 is off to a start, isn’t it? Since I’m trying not to make this the most depressing newsletter known to man, I’m going to focus on positive things we can take away from the first month of the year. Let me think, positives, positive, positives… oh, I know, I finished a book! Well, technically I finished the first draft of a book. There’s plenty of work still to be done but we’re getting there. It’s only February and I’m already getting giddy for Christmas and more importantly, the October tour. As soon as I have more to share, you can bet I will.

Because I’ve been so very busy with bookishness for the last few weeks (months, years), I’ve barely left the house this year but that’s about to change. This week I managed to sneak out for margaritas the size of my head with my lovely friend, Barry, and like true Libra twins, we fixed everything wrong with the world (only to forget everything we said the next day). If you’re in the market for a delightful children’s book, check out The Bear Who Dared. It doesn’t come with a margarita but is is full of Barry’s charm.

If that wasn’t enough, on Wednesday, Jeff convinced me to go to the local pub quiz. Now, between us, I don’t do well in competitive situations. It’s fine, this is something I know about myself and I have accepted it. I am a monster. A terrible loser and an even worse winner, I can’t help it, it’s in my blood. Once, when I was little, my dad left the pub quiz to go home and get an encyclopedia to prove the quizmaster he was wrong about a question and pals, I felt that in my bones. Despite being fully aware of this information, Jeff still thought subjecting his friends to Quiz Team Lindsey was a good idea. Spoiler alert, it wasn’t. I think we’re off quite a few Christmas card lists.
I regret nothing.

Next week, I’m headed to Atlanta for the Love Y’all Fest - my first ever - and I am equal parts excited and anxious and worried about carrying my giant roll up sign onto the plane and terrified no one will want to talk to me and I’ll be sat at my table like a billy no mates, making eyes at Ali Hazelwood behind her Beatlemania-crazed groupies. Please do not tell anyone attending the Disco Bowling event I’ve agreed to take part in about my dark competitive side. They’ll find out soon enough…

What I’m Reading

There’s been a real theme to my reading of late and that theme is FANTASY. Aside from books I’m sent to blurb (when authors and publishers send you books before they release in the hopes you will say something nice about them), it’s been all fantasy, all the time, starting with Andy Darcy Theo’s The Light That Blinds Us, A Court of Frost and Starlight, Interview With The Vampire and The Vampire Lestat (more on that later) and because I am nothing if not Down With The Kids, Onyx Storm.