Literary agent
@dhhlit
. Bookseller Rising Star 2012. Shortlisted for RNA Agent of the Year 2019 and Agent of the Year 2022. Views occasionally my own.
We are absolutely delighted to welcome the inimitable
@Diana_Beaumont
to the DHH Literary Agency.
Bringing with her a list of incredibly talented and exciting authors, Diana will join officially on 3rd June.
Anyone else feeling overwhelmed and saddened by the toxic level of hatred on here right now? I am aware battles aren’t won by being nice but if only there was more space to listen, to learn, to work together towards common goals instead of fighting each other.
I’m opening submissions in January. Looking for strong, particularly female led stories; I fancy a vampire novel & spy thriller as like novels set in Cold War (plus other high concept thrillers). Also something set in foodie world would be nice? Open to anything strong tho.
I am delighted to welcome funny, feminist, super talented comedian, writer and actor (also author of the hilarious Jurgen Klopp ‘sensible porn’ tweets)
@lauralexx
to
@MarjacqScripts
(her talent agent is the wonderful
@AJRoach
). We need laughter more than ever right now...
I usually avoid Cross Publishing Tweets esp when there are some BRILLIANT publishers out there & many are overworked/underpaid. Team changes are inevitable but there are writers out there who aren’t receiving the most basic author care let alone sales ambition. It makes me LIVID
Thanks to all
@RNAtweets
. Delighted to be on this shortlist along with some excellent industry colleagues... quite a few of my clients are
#RNA
members so look forward to partying with everyone in November....(yes, Christmas come early)
Tonight was the launch of Lily’s Promise by Lily Ebert and Dov Forman
@WaterstonesNW3
(thank you!), surrounded by family, friend, the team
@panmacmillan
and
@RKbookpublicist
. So moving & so much to celebrate. Particularly exciting that it is
#1
in all books on Amazon now.
I’m delighted to welcome
@LadyDolby
(aka Hannah Dolby) to
@MarjacqScripts
. I’m so excited to be representing her for her debut novel, The Lady Detective (runner-up for the CWIP prize). Set in Victorian era Hastings, the first in the series is a funny, smart, uplifting delight!
Really thrilled to find out that Lily’s Promise by Auschwitz survivor Lily Ebert and her great-grandson
@DovForman
@panmacmillan
is back in the
@thesundaytimes
hardback bestseller lists this weekend at Number 8. Congratulations!
I loved VINE STREET by
@NolanDom
.
@HeadlineFiction
. Just finished and one of the best crime novels I have read. Soho evoked so brilliantly too. Really appreciated copy from Toby Jones. Highly recommended!
Really delighted that the multi-talented
@ak_benedict
is joining
@MarjacqScripts
and I am so pleased to be representing her. Nice news at the end of an interesting year!
This angers me greatly. It is NOT good enough. Many publishers have had their most profitable year ever. You have to improve entry level salaries and beyond. And employ more staff so that people are not so overworked & stressed? Can we please see this improve in 2022. No excuses.
"Respondents are overworked, underpaid, stressed and disillusioned",
@bookcareers
latest Salary Survey has shown that the average salary in publishing has risen by 6% but the entry level pay gap widens to 49%. More here:
Today's the 1st anniversary of the
#RespectRomFic
movement I joined in collaboration with
@BookMinxSJV
&
@RNAtweets
aiming to shift the dismissive attitude I believe the genre receives. Please join me & millions of readers of Romance demanding respect for the love stories I love!
The most important thing publishers can do to increase diversity is to think about correlation between increasing profits & lower author incomes - or creativity will be quashed. We need to make sure writers - the lifeblood of our industry- are fairly rewarded for their work.
I have news!
Sarah Snook, aka Shiv from Succession, will play Marissa in the TV adaptation of my book, All Her Fault. I wish I had a picture of my face when I heard this news, but safe to say, there was a scream. Details here:
This is an extraordinary story of Lily Ebert, who survived the horrors of Auschwitz, & how her great-grandson
@DovForman
tracked down one of the soldiers who had liberated the camps and shown her kindness and humanity
@TelegraphBooks
. Lily’s Promise:
✍️💵When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, 97, was liberated from a work camp, a US soldier wrote a message of hope on a banknote
⏲️76 years on, her great-grandson set about finding the soldier
Thread 👇
@JonnyGeller
I tire of reductive terms like ‘up-lit’ & ‘chick lit’ (we had a lot of that a few years ago) which seem to apply to books written by women for women. There is no objective ‘truth’ with fiction, more of a lens, and there is room to be challenged, entertained and comforted.
Really excited to see this book proof out in the world
@RozWatkins
@HQstories
@EmilyKitchin
: THE RED HOUSE out June 23. A brilliantly twisty and atmospheric thriller. Highly recommended!
Congrats to
@hayleyemmasteed
on her article in this week’s
@thebookseller
on disability & representation within the industry. It takes strength & courage to do that, especially in an industry that sometimes expect us all to work tirelessly. You clearly have made it work for you!
So wonderful to see Lily Ebert and her great grandson
@DovForman
spreading a message of hope and solidarity with those in Ukraine this morning on
@GMB
Lily's memoir about her experience as a Holocaust survivor, Lily's Promise, is out today in paperback:
Happy people live 7 to 10 years longer than unhappy people. People who belong to choirs are leaves on a tree & are among the happiest people. This has been a very happy evening at
@LyricHammer
!
I am so proud and delighted to be working with Alison Bonomi aka Emma Orchard
@LBABooks
on The Second Lady Silverwood
@AllisonandBusby
. It is SUCH a great - a beautifully written, witty and VERY raunchy Regency Romance. What’s not to love???
@JonnyGeller
I also think that while we are all entitled to our opinions this tweet is somewhat ill-advised (especially by an industry ‘influencer’) given the way in which commercial romantic fiction and its offshoots have been routinely neglected and ignored by the literary establishment.
10 years ago I was still stuck in the query trenches (lost & confused). Here’s a few things I’ve learned about writing/publishing in the past decade 🧵
1. Resilience. Rejection is part of the job. It gets easier. It’s not that your work isn’t good it’s that it isn’t a good fit.
On train back from
#Harrogate
@TheakstonsCrime
and reminded once again what a brilliant, funny, smart bunch of people you all are - authors, editors and, even other agents! Lucky to work with you and boy did I work (might have to substitute that for drink) hard this weekend.
Just wonderful to launch SEVEN EXES by the utterly gorgeous
@Lecv
in such style yesterday
@WaterstonesTCR
. Great to see the fantastic
@simonschusterUK
team out in force as well as friends, family and fellow writers. May it fly!
Caring isn’t just my family's story, it is the story of millions, caring for each other, dealing with tough times, and keeping going with love.
Sharing our story hasn't been easy, but it's important. It's time to bring carers' experiences into the light.
I have news! No One Saw A Thing is a Richard and Judy Book Club pick 🙌
AND it's paperback pub day in Irel/ UK, so this is a really lovely way to celebrate. Huge thanks to the R&J team, to
@WHSmith
, and to all at
@TransworldBooks
and
@PenguinIEBooks
– this is a dream come true 🫶
‘Twitter had turned everyone into the archbishop of Canterbury, somehow feeling that every major news story requires them to issue an official statement.’ YES
@MarinaHyde
@jonathanfreedland
Love that most of the Brits have been apologising for weather at meetings to anyone coming from overseas as if they were personally responsible (self included)
#lbf18
Ok. Call me sad (actually don’t!) but am so excited to have this. Access All Areas. I am going to use it EVERYWHERE (Tesco, Boots etc) but tonight am here to see the fabulous
@LostVoiceGuy
@EventimApollo
#LiveAtTheApollo
Amazing to see these striking finished copies of ENOUGH: The Violence Against Women and How to End It by
@HarrietEJohnson
@JoFThompson
@WmCollinsBooks
. Out in March this is an important and all too timely exposure of why women so often fail to get the justice they deserve
Huge congratulations on the publication of Lily’s Promise by Auschwitz survivor Lily Ebert & her great-grandson
@DovForman
. It has been a privilege to work with them on this testimony. Many thanks to
@IngridConnell
& all
@panmacmillan
&
@RKbookpublicist
:
Can’t believe
@vodafoneUK
have just put up their prices by 2.5% even if in line with other telephone operators. Incredibly bad taste and timing on all their parts. We won’t forget this
#Vodafone
An incredible achievement!!! Huge congratulations
@AndreaMaraBooks
and thanks to everyone
@TransworldBooks
who helped make it happen. Not to mention the bookseller and readers…
Today I got the lovely news from my amazing publisher
@TransworldBooks
that we've now sold over half a million copies of my books!
Did I get some weird looks when I stopped off on my home this afternoon to draw the number on Sandymount Strand for a photo? Indeed I did.
NO LIFE FOR A LADY by
@LadyDolby
@rachel_fw
@AriaFiction
is out tomorrow. It is the most gorgeous, uplifting read. A celebratory brunch seemed in order: