Sad to have left Penguin Random House after 5 years, but so excited for the next adventure as a freelance book publicist! (And what an amazing leaving card, to take with me!).
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert! If you like your crime thrillers to be twisty & ‘unbelievably brilliant’, you’ll love
#Win
by Harlan Coben (out 5th Aug). Think: cold case abduction; stolen art; interconnecting crimes; an eccentric new hero. Limited no. available /UK only. DM me!
202 million hardbacks and paperbacks were sold in 2020, in the UK. Amazing to think how many people might have discovered a new favourite book/author 🥰
#ChooseBookshops
So, lately I have been sending out the loveliest proofs to media!
#AFatalCrossing
is coming in January 2022. And bloggers, there will be proofs available very soon - I'll let you know when/how to request them!
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert! New James Patterson series coming in Jan… Three detectives with untraceable pasts are solving impossible crimes. But who really are the detectives called Holmes, Marple and Poe?🕵️♀️ DM me to be considered (UK only) 🕵️♀️AD / PR
#HolmesMargaretAndPoe
📣Bloggers!📣 Blog tour alert! If you’re craving a summer read that’s packed full of temptation and regret, then this is for you! Published on 19th August (tour dates available from 16th Aug). DM me if you’d like to join!
Full book info here: ☀️
#TheAffair
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert! A BRAND NEW James Patterson series!
#12MonthsToLive
is out on 28th Sept. Criminal defence attorney Jane Smith is hired to revive an unsolved murders cold case. But she’s only got a year to live. Out on 28th September. DM me (UK only) [AD/PR]
📣Bloggers! 📣 Review copy alert! To celebrate its paperback publication today, I have a few copies of the INCREDIBLE Costa Book of the Year 2020 winner! DM me if you’d like to be considered. 🧜♀️🐚 Full plot description here: 🧜♀️🐚
#TheMermaidOfBlackConch
📣 Bloggers! 📣 Review copy alert! I’m now ready to accept requests for
#AFatalCrossing
. DM me to be considered (UK only for this one). 🚢 More info on the book here: 🚢
Seeing my parents for the first time in nine months, now they’ve had both vaccines. And IT’S HAPPENING! The stocking is on the end of the bed and the carols are playing
#ChristmasinMay
📣Blogger alert!📣 Coming in February, this is one of 2022’s most romantic reads! Full details here: ✈️💜 I have a limited number of proof copies available. DM me for the chance to be considered (UK only, sorry)!
#ItMustBeLove
📢Bloggers!📢 DM me! I have a limited number of proofs of the perfect autumn read: a chilling and atmospheric thriller. 📖 Murder. Revenge. Betrayal? Imagine seeing your husband on a dating app. Now imagine that’s the best thing that happens to you all week...
#TheStrangersWeKnow
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert! Just over a week to go until
#WhoSheWas
hits the shelves! I have a few copies left (UK only). It’s a cracking summer read - murder; hidden identity; Cornish beach setting; touch of romance… 🔥 Please DM me! [AD/PR]
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert! If you’re the type who loves to read the book, before they watch the film, you’ll want this one! Soon to be a major motion picture, it’s intense. Full plot here: . Please DM me (limited no. available + UK only this time).
There is no greater week, surely, than one that contains International Women's Day, Pancake Day, and World Book Day. Here's to a week spent celebrating everything I love! ♀️🥞📚
📣 Bloggers! 📣 Review copy alert! New Anthony Horowitz novel coming in April!
🕵️♂️Gated community setting
🕵️♂️Noisy neighbour murdered - whole street are suspects
🕵️♂️How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive?
Please DM me to be considered (UK only)
#CloseToDeath
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert!
#TheDogParkDetectives
is the paw-fect cosy crime book. As modelled by my ‘nephew,’ Teddy, it’s a fur-ociously entertaining read. Out 6th June!
🐾Murder mystery
🐾Loads of dogs!
🐾Start of a brand new series
Please DM me to be considered (UK only).
📣Bloggers!📣 I have a few copies of the stunning
#HowToLiveWhatToDo
. It’s non-fiction - written by a psychoanalyst - on why we relate to different literary characters at points in our lives. Think: Alice in Wonderland, Jane Eyre, Jay Gatsby. DM me if you’d like to be considered!
📣 Bloggers! 📣 Review copy alert! If you love James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club series, then
#22Seconds
won’t disappoint! It’s publishing in April. Please DM me if you’d like to be considered for a proof copy (limited no. available / UK only).
Bloggers! I have a small number of proofs of the brilliant
#TheSentenceIsDeath
up for grabs!
@AnthonyHorowitz
turns his hand to some classic sleuthing 🕵️♂️ Wave if you’d like one!
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert!
#LifeOfZanna
is publishing later this month. DM me to be considered for a copy (UK only), if you like psychological thrillers!
💄Toxic female friendship
💄Power struggle
💄 The darker side of influencer lifestyles
💄Female antihero
💄Debut author
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert!
#SomewhereInTheSunset
is publishing in April. DM me to be considered for a proof (UK only), if you like romantic fiction!
☀️San Francisco setting
☀️Heartbroken protagonists
☀️Strangers-to-lovers
☀️All the feels
☀️And the sex is🔥
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert!
#ProbablyNothing
is, hands down, the funniest - and most relatable - book of the summer! Life is short - so should you settle for perfectly fine? I have just 10 copies left. DM me to be considered (UK only)!
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert! The very clever Tony Parsons’ ‘unputdownable’ book is coming out in paperback on 16th September. Please DM me if you’d like a review copy (limited number available and UK only).
Full book info here: 🍷
#YourNeighboursWife
📣Bloggers! 📣 Review copy alert! If you ♥️ non-fic memoirs, this was one of the best-reviewed reads last year (quotes in pic from real reviews!). Full book description here: . Out in paperback 8th July. DM me (limited no. available)!
#TheConsequencesOfLove
After a year that was filled with difficulty for publicists, I am chuffed to be shortlisted for a
@publicitycircle
award for my
#ItsALoveStory
campaign. And in such incredible company - publicists totally smashed it last year! Here’s to 2021 being a less dramatic one, in books!
📣 Bloggers! 📣 Review copy alert! Katie Fforde’s new book is coming on 17th Feb. More info here: . Please DM me if you’d like to be considered (limited proofs available / UK only) 🏰
Props to the kid in America on Instagram, who sent me a DM to ask if I’d read his short story and provide feedback. When I politely explained he’d need to find a literary agent, etc., he told me it’s his college homework… 🤦🏻♀️
Happy New Year, bookish Twitter! I’m actually excited to be back at my desk, this morning. So many cracking 2022 reads are on the way! 🎉 (And here’s a look back at bookish 2021, via some Instagram pics) 📚
In honour of paperback publication tomorrow, I have a few last copies of the amazing
#TheLastDay
! Set in 2059, this dystopian thriller imagines a world that’s stopped turning - leaving half in the blazing sun and half in freezing darkness. DM me if you’d like to be considered!
Just found out the next door neighbour has spent the pandemic telling their little kids that they’ll report their bad behaviour to me and my husband... and that we’re really scary. That explains why the children never wave, then! 🤦🏻♀️
Happy
#WorldBookNight
! Tonight,
@PenguinRHUK
staff are sharing some of their top reads. I’ve left this thriller for a Paddington-Reading commuter to enjoy! Have you spotted any others?
Pretty excited to hear that my bud
@SarahHarwood_
is heading over to Cornerstone soon! I can just about forgive your epic holiday pics thanks to this news..
"We’re not looking to grow our list size, we just want to do each of those books better, and look after those authors better, and look after our staff better in terms of ratio of books to staff".
Canongate outlines its latest plans as the company celebrates its 50th year.
📣Bloggers!📣 Review copy alert! James Patterson’s next Alex Cross novel is called
#FearNoEvil
& is coming on 25th November. Please DM me if you’d like a very snazzy black & silver proof (limited no. available & UK only). Full book info here:
The very best of luck to all of the many authors who are publishing today! It may be a 'crowded' week, but with weather like this, I can't be the only one who just wants to curl up with a book, all weekend! 📚
📣Bloggers!📣 I have a limited number of copies of a gorgeous wartime novel (published 18th Feb). Set in Germany in 1946, Clara is an heiress who is on the run, and searching for her missing friend. DM me if you’d like to be considered!
#TheGermanHeiress
That bereft feeling when you’ve finished all the Christmas choc. Other chocolate just isn’t the same… Why does making it penguin-shaped, make it hit different?!?!