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Amazing news from the publishing industry today as publishers and retailers commit to prioritising high-quality fiction by mid list authors over big names and ghost-written celebrity books!
It's a constant in the Peanuts comic strip that Snoopy's purple prose racks up rejection after rejection, but I feel like a diligent literary agent could sell even a terrible novel written by a dog, if only for novelty's sake.
Now, a SECOND book...
Double Book Launch: Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampires Castle Ten Poets Prowl the Seas in Search of Plunder. Friday, 27th February from 6pm. The Angel, St Giles High Street, WC2H 8LE
We're doing a London launch for the latest two Sidekick titles a week tomorrow (a day before the deadline for our current submissions call)! Come join us.
Looking forward to the crown-line of duty mashup
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Lovely bit of work this...
Me: Well, that was entertaining, but perhaps Ed went a bit too far...
Narrator: Ed had not, in fact, gone too far.
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Sounds fascinating!
Besides clothing, I'd love to see the typical possessions of different ranks. What tools, personal items, etc someone might carry.
I came here to say clothing!
So sorry to hear this. Only met her once or twice, but such a warm and generous person.
Congratulations to @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social and Simon Goldhill, whose books, 'Silence of the Gods' and 'Queer Cambridge', have been selected by @thetls.bsky.social as Books of the Year 2025 🥳
Read more 🔗 (paywall): https://cup.org/4r9BMnA
one for @edzitron.com
Google AI responds to query 'thou shalt not bear false witness' with an accurate citation from Exodus, and a nonsensical url where bible/bible/bible is repeated ad infinitum....
woah, google's AI overview having a moment there... Please supply your AI and false witness jokes below....
Ooh, this looks fascinating...
🚨 Only one day left to submit your entry to the Bloomsbury Fiction Mentorship Programme! 🚨
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I can’t tell you how excited I am to be at #Clivedenlitfest2025 this weekend and in conversation with Ian Rankin and Anthony Horowitz. Please join us!
Really pleased we could make this happen.
So exciting to see so many CBC alumna on the @historia-hwa.bsky.social Debut Crown longlist! Congrats to @adberginwriter.bsky.social, @rachloudriscoll.bsky.social, @joannamillerauthor.bsky.social & Rosanna Pike! 👏
Oh, and follow @historia-hwa.bsky.social !
Covers of: The Wicked of the Earth by A. D. Bergin (Northodox Press) Costanza by Rachel Blackmore (Renegade Books) The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable (Bloomsbury) Nephthys by Rachel Louise Driscoll (Harvill Secker) Murder in Constantinople by A.E. Goldin (Pushkin Press0 Winter of Shadows by Clare Grant (Black Spring Crime) A Poisoner's Tale - Cathryn Kemp (Bantam) Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis (Doubleday) The Eights by Joanna Miller (Fig Tree) A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike (Fig Tree) They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar (Picador) A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith (Bloomsbury)
Covers of: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry (Canongate Books) Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) The Small Museum by Jody Cooksley (Allison & Busby) Man of Bones by Ben Creed (Mountain Leopard Press) Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans (Doubleday) Arthur by Giles Kristian (Bantam) The Maiden of Florence by Katherine Mezzacappa (Fairlight Books) Hold Back the Night by Jessica Moor (Manilla Press) The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse (Mantle) The Stolen Daughter by Florence Olájídé (Bookouture) The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Dialogue Books) Time of the Child by Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)
Covers of: Lionessheart - Catherine Hanley (The History Press) The Scapegoat by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Fourth Estate) The Endless Country by Sami Kent (Picador) Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson (William Collins) Naples 1944 by Keith Lowe (William Collins) Storm's Edge by Peter Marshall (William Collins) Agent Zo by Clare Mulley (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Moederland by Cato Pedder (John Murray) Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts (riverrun) The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival by Anne Sebba (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) The Many Lives of James Lovelock by Jonathan Watts (Canongate) The Grammar of Angels by Edward Wilson-Lee (William Collins)
So delighted to see these fantastic longlists for the HWA Crown Awards. Debuts, fiction and non-fiction to transport and inspire. A feast for curious minds...
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Oh what a great day this is! The Maiden of Florence has made the last 12 on the @historia-hwa.bsky.social Gold Crown award #longlist! #historicalfiction #renaissance #Firenze @fairlightbooks.bsky.social
New! A Triumvirate of English Earls
@derekbirks.bsky.social and I discuss the 3 great Anglo-Saxons earls of 11th century England: Godwin, Leofric and Siward. How influential were they?
#podcast #kingandconqueror
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Really loved writing this - The Seeker of Lost Paintings, out now!
This month's Cheese of the Month: Single Gloucester: bit.ly/SingleGloucester
On LLMs:
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