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Diana Beaumont

@Diana_Beaumont

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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.

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Joined March 2012
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Diana Beaumont
3 months
Some exciting news…
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DHH Literary Agency
3 months
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.
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4 years
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.
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2 years
I am honoured and delighted to be on this list alongside amazing colleagues. Thank you!
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9 months
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.
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Excited to start with the amazing team @DHHlitagency today… Pencil sharpened, apple polished …
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4 years
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...
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@GuardianBooks Like, women can write good books too?
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In Harrogate for my annual detox #LivingMyBestLife
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9 months
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
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5 years
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)
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The Bookseller
5 years
. @HeraBooks ' founders, agent @Diana_Beaumont and author @Czaroline have been shortlisted for this year's @RNAtweets awards:
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3 years
Was proud and heartened when 12yo son said unprompted: ‘I am a feminist. Why wouldn’t people want women to be equal? They must be dumb.’
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3 years
@Savills Really nasty misogynistic tweets alongside horrendous racism.
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3 years
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.
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Tourists in London. Please note that it is NOT ON to saunter around on underground looking happy and relaxed.
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3 years
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!
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3 years
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!
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5 years
@allisonpearson What a truly unpleasant tweet....
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1 year
Meeting at Carmelite House today. View not too shabby!
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8 years
So thrilled about this! Very exciting start to new year...
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Marjacq Scripts
8 years
Please welcome @Diana_Beaumont and her sparkling writers to the Marjacq massive:
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Diana Beaumont
2 years
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!
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3 months
So excited to be joining you all!
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DHH Literary Agency
3 months
With our new fortnightly output, we’ve got a wickedly juicy #DHHNewsRoundup to sate all your bookish needs! Read on to find out what we’ve been up to…
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Diana Beaumont
3 years
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!
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Diana Beaumont
3 years
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.
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The Bookseller
3 years
"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:
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Diana Beaumont
1 year
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!
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Diana Beaumont
3 years
So thrilled to get finished copies of Lily’s Promise by Lily Ebert and @DovForman @IngridConnell @mattcolebooks @panmacmillan . It has been an honour to work on this memoir. Published on 2nd September.
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3 years
Think this sums up my day fairly well (who needs stocking fillers anyway??)
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Diana Beaumont
6 years
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.
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3 years
Truly amazing to see Lily’s Promise, the memoir by Auschwitz survivor Lily Ebert and her great-grandson @DovForman @panmacmillan @MarjacqScripts at No. 2 out of all books on Amazon on #HolocaustMemorialDay
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2 years
Love this photo my son took today:
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8 years
Feeling inspired after @TheakstonsCrime so budding crime authors get in touch if you have strong original concept and great writing! Pls RT
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1 year
And so lovely to be able to celebrate in style @NotRollergirl @BooksSphere
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6 years
Moved into our lovely new offices @MarjacqScripts . Whoop whoop! Here is the meeting area....
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4 years
Me at (about) 20...
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6 months
Delighted to see @AndreaMaraBooks going straight to No 3 in The Sunday Times pb bestseller lists with NO ONE SAW A THING @TransworldBooks @CottonFinn @MarjacqScripts
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2 years
My son made this for Easter…
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5 months
@JaneCaseyAuthor The eyebrows!!! But I genuinely love the haircut! Unironically.
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3 months
And it’s so exciting….
@AndreaMaraBooks
Andrea Mara – Someone In The Attic
3 months
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:
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It was fantastic to celebrate the publication of HOW TO SOLVE MURDERS LIKE A LADY by the wonderful @LadyDolby @AriaFiction tonight. It’s out on Thursday and is an utter delight! Great to see @inkstainsclaire @hema_sukumar and @makingmewonder there as well as the @HoZ_Books team
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2 years
Just a few on my teetering pile of TBRs…
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3 months
Great to see these at Leicester Square tube today… Out on Thursday from @AndreaMaraBooks @CottonFinn @jen_porter4 @BeckyShort1 @TransworldBooks
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Diana Beaumont
3 years
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:
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Telegraph Books
3 years
✍️💵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 👇
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@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.
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Diana Beaumont
2 years
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!
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1 year
Today
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4 years
I know they have got rid of the Tampon Tax but really?? I’ll stick with a bunch of daffs please.
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1 year
I feel…. seen!
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Diana Beaumont
3 years
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!
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2 years
And so wonderful to see it go straight to No 2 on Amazon today…
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Pan Macmillan
2 years
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:
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4 years
Thank you thank you @thebookseller for getting rid of the dreaded Captcha. I give a little smile when I log in without it now!
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5 years
@DrFrancesRyan Oh they can just feck off. They are multi-million pound businesses and should not have charitable status.
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Diana Beaumont
9 months
This was our choir last night …
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Gyles Brandreth
9 months
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 ⁩!
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Diana Beaumont
2 years
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???
@LBABooks
Alison
2 years
*shuffles a bit* I have some news…
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Diana Beaumont
3 years
@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.
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This is truly brilliant advice. Every writer can benefit from your wisdom. Read it and read it again. Thank you for sharing…
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Will Dean
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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.
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And our local garden centre …
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Diana Beaumont
5 years
The fabulous, talented @TheAngelaClarke at the launch of the utterly gripping, compelling and thought-provoking crime novel #OnMyLife with @EvilEveHall @MulhollandUK @HodderBooks . I salute you! And it saved us from THAT debate...
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5 years
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.
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Diana Beaumont
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Great to see @TanTwanEng at an impromptu signing @WstonesChiswick @Kinhead @canongatebooks @WoollardJessica when I happened to be browsing - lovely to hear that it is selling so brilliantly! #VivaBooks !
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1 year
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!
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8 years
First day of new job @MarjacqScripts . Boys made me these to mark the occasion...
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5 years
Just home from #lbf19 . My son has asked for help subtracting irregular fractions. I think my head might break....
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Diana Beaumont
5 months
Exciting to see this ad for @inkstainsclaire @_victoriahaslam @AmazonPub spotted at Oxford Circus by @guy_herbert . Well over a million brilliant books sold. Congratulations!
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3 months
This is incredibly moving …
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Ed Davey
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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.
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Huge congratulations on the paperback publication of NO ONE SAW A THING my @AndreaMaraBooks today @CottonFinn @TransworldBooks @PenguinIEBooks . All so exciting and even more so as it’s an R&J pick @WHSmith
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Andrea Mara – Someone In The Attic
6 months
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 🫶
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4 years
Walk today...
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Diana Beaumont
3 years
‘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
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6 years
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
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Diana Beaumont
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Just these wise words from the inimitable @lecv : ‘love is such s huge, important thing and we shouldn’t be sneery at it’ 💕 ❤️ 💕 #Respectromfic
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6 years
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
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3 years
Right now out in the sun, smelling the roses (literally) and someone is practising Super Trouper on the trombone. All is well.
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3 years
If I see any more little green squares today…
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4 months
Really excited to be judging the #IAmWriting #CrimeFiction competition for @IAmInPrint which is now live… I can’t wait to see your crime and thriller entries:
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2 years
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
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2 years
The Thames. This evening:
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The beautiful @Hatchards book Christmas tree at St Pancras Station with reading nooks below
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3 years
My son just said ‘ooh, you look like a powerful woman.’ (New outfit). Then added ‘a drunk, powerful woman.’ I only had two glasses of wine at lunch!
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Diana Beaumont
3 years
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 :
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Diana Beaumont
1 year
Lovely to see this Christmassy delight in today @ak_benedict @katherinecrime @simonschusterUK . Something to look forward to at the end of September…
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Diana Beaumont
4 years
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
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Diana Beaumont
4 years
Is heartwarming to see the generosity of some people in the book world over the last few days: @LauraPAuthor @DavidNWriter and @sophiegrenham to name but a few...
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2 years
Local park shamelessly flaunting itself
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Diana Beaumont
6 years
@GaryScribbler @Beau775 I am very proud and delighted to be representing @garyscribbler for that book!
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3 years
The park today
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Diana Beaumont
5 years
Fantastic to celebrate the launch of #TheMatchmaker by the wonderful @catreenaah @waterstonesCG with editor extraordinaire @KatieVEBrown and fab publicist @Leanne_Oliver1 @TrapezeBooks
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5 months
An incredible achievement!!! Huge congratulations @AndreaMaraBooks and thanks to everyone @TransworldBooks who helped make it happen. Not to mention the bookseller and readers…
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Andrea Mara – Someone In The Attic
5 months
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.
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2 years
@exitthelemming This is the BEST!
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Diana Beaumont
1 year
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:
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2 years
Please, never send me here…
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3 years
Just... wow!
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Diana Beaumont
1 year
One of my famous prize-winning photographs (!?!) but so great to see this in the window of @wstonesholborn @franwritesstuff @orbitbooks
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Diana Beaumont
5 months
I am delighted to be judging the crime/thriller category so please send them our way @IAmInPrint
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I Am In Print
5 months
Now in their third year, the I Am Writing competitions open next Monday! 7 comps all judged by an agent / publisher inc: @Diana_Beaumont @lizadeblock @LydiaRSilver @LittleTigerUK @MeganACarroll Jo Fletcher / Ian Drury @LitAgentClare £13 entry. Get ready!
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