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@PalindromeTodd

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Literary agent @MMLitAgency . Grotesquely optimistic. All views my own. ✨ No pitches via DM please ✨ She/her

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Hannah
8 months
Happy Monday! I'm updating my submissions wish list... Now this comes with the usual caveat that I am open to all of the things listed on my agent page, and these are just the things I'm particularly hankering for at the mo... #MSWL
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2 years
Me, to person sewing next to me: Oh! That's really nice! Person: I don't actually need validation from strangers, but thanks. 😳
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3 years
I can now say that I am DELIGHTED to be working as a literary agent at the @MMLitAgency ! I am actively acquiring commercial adult fiction with digital potential. From romances to crime and most things in between, I'd love to read your work! Details below
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Hannah
3 years
Give your dogs an extra big cuddle today please ❤️‍🩹 there's a big gap in our family where this little lady used to be.
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2 years
Ehehehehe, ITS REAL! Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Hannah and I'm a literary agent 🤝 (Have done many deals and contracts but this is the 'its real' moment. Don't question it.)
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2 years
Some clarifications as this has gotten busy! - we were in a sewing class - I just smiled and said 'Okay!' as nothing else needed to be said - she was actually lovely, after a brief pause we both carried on chatting! It was just a surprising and impressively bold statement 😂
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2 years
No one: Hannah were you happy to be celebrating with lots of lovely editors and colleagues last night? My face in EVERY photo:
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2 years
Editors: I have a VERY exciting submission going out this week & I want to make sure I'm not missing anyone. It is SO GOOD that it is making me beam at my desk while compiling my subs email. Do you like: 💖romcoms 🏰theme parks (Disney?) 🌞Sunshine/Grump dynamics Let me know!
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Hannah
4 years
Today we stumbled across a cottage that looked like it had come straight from the covers of our romance novels 😍🌹💕
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Hannah
3 years
Last week was utterly amazing, and I'm so pleased to be able to share some good news already! I officially signed two fantastic authors with @MMLitAgency and I am delighted to be able to tell you about them...
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Hannah
5 years
Absolutely delighted to say that I’ll be staying on at HarperCollins permanently across both @AvonBooksUK and One More Chapter! An incredible opportunity for digital nerdery and to edit some truly fantastic authors. Eeeek! 🤓💻📱📖🥳
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The Bookseller
5 years
. @HarperCollinsUK is launching “a dynamic” digital-first division, One More Chapter, led by @girl_on_a_ledge :
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Hannah
4 years
Absolutely delighted to share the news that I'll be joining the amazing @Aria_Fiction and @AriesFiction at @HoZ_Books ! As soon as I'm in the door I'll be sharing my #MSWL so keep your eyes peeled 👀
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Hannah
2 years
Having my monthly anxiety rush that is purely hormonal but THE WORST. If anyone has great tips for getting through the palpitations and crushing sense of dread, lemme know 👌
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Hannah
2 years
Muting this now, but this all made me laugh! Have nice weekends x
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Hannah
3 years
Being an editor is being a professional fangirl.
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Hannah
4 years
Every year since I can remember, my dad sends me an 'anonymous' valentine's card. Always written wobbly with his left hand for added mystery. He even remembered this year, when we've spent the weekend at his mum's funeral. He's the Best Dad ™️ and I'm so lucky to have him 💕
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6 years
Very exciting news... For the next three months I'll be working with the wonderful @AvonBooksUK team as their Digital Commissioning Editor! The freelancing gig is on hold, but I'll be back to it soon. I am totally over the moon and I can't wait to get stuck in 🥳
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Hannah
3 years
Wow! The support today has been utterly overwhelming... I couldn't keep up. Thanks so much 💖 I've got a kindle full of submissions and a huge big grin on my face!
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Hannah
3 years
Can always count on Dad for a reality check 😂 Absolutely cackling. He then sent a very lovely proud message but this was too good.
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Hannah
2 years
Watching this makes me all emotional. So amazing to be a part of this inspirational team 🥰 Also yes, I look like a giant satsuma. I didn't realise my boilersuit clashed QUITE so strongly with my hair...
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2 years
✨Welcome to our agency... ✨ 1/3
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Hannah
3 years
My teeny tiny niece looking like an old concerned lady
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Hannah
2 years
Today, I've been with P for four very happy years 🥰 my twitter is a weird mix of work and personal life, but it's also where I keep track of big moments & achievements. And he is one of my favourite. (Seen here with the love of HIS life, bread).
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Hannah
4 years
Today I forgot the word teeth and used the phrase 'face nails'. Upsetting to all involved.
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Hannah
3 years
Promise I'm not as frazzled as I look (bad hair day) but YAY! Having the best first week 🥰
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Madeleine Milburn
3 years
And here she is! Utterly thrilled that Hannah Todd has joined the MM agency to build a commercial fiction list @PalindromeTodd 🎉🤗 Aspiring writers, here is her wish list! @MMLitAgency
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Hannah
7 months
Was The Olivier's the best night of my life?! Very much so 😂 Thank you @hayley_steed and @hollywstars 💗
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Hannah
3 years
On the train and SO confused by how many people aren't wearing masks. Vaccines don't make you invincible and surely not everyone is exempt? Feels a little bit like I'm losing my mind 😂
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Hannah
2 years
There are SO MANY amazing pitches over at #JWPitchFestival ! Any fellow agents/industry people please do take a look. So much potential here 😍😍
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Hannah
3 years
Having one of those *pinch me* moments that this is my job having read the third fantastic romcom pitch in a row. So many brilliant books in the world 🥰
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Hannah
3 years
Eeeee! Finally took and passed my theory driving test today ☺️ so pleased with myself! This whole 'driving' thing feels like it might actually be possible??
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Hannah
2 years
@zoeallisonauth1 I just smiled and went OKAY! 😂 I respect it but had no response ready for that...
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2 years
@KirstyStories This made me SNORT with laughter 😂
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Hannah
3 years
Making myself laugh while coming up with fake romcom pitches: MEAT CUTE - A handsome local butcher clashes with a vegan Greenpeace campaigner. As the tension begins to sizzle, will they realise their feelings for one another before they both get burnt?* *pls don't send me this 😂
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Hannah
3 years
It's cute that people think England winning is the best thing to happen today, when actually it was me meeting my niece for the first time.
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Hannah
2 years
@cherrymorello Okay this is SO cool! I've been learning to embroider and would love to get this good! Hope you've got a spot immediately visible at home so everyone gets to see it 💖
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Hannah
5 years
Shopping delivery has arrived and instead of two heads of broccoli, I have ordered TWO KG. What on EARTH am I going to do with this hilarious amount of brocc? Halp.
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Hannah
3 years
The holiday OOO is on and I'm filled with the loveliest fuzzy feeling after a fantastic session of author pitches at an event tonight. This year I landed my dream job with amazing colleagues, and am already working with utterly incredible authors. GAH! What a life.
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Hannah
3 years
Reading lots of subs so today's top considerations for querying: Are you starting your novel in the most exciting place? Are you frontloading the information that could be drip-fed throughout the narrative? Are you showing not telling? Throw us in and capture our imaginations!
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Hannah
2 years
Our wellness officer doing her job beautifully this afternoon 🥰
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Hannah
11 months
It's official!! I have the best job! Having spent the day on an edit of a second book in a glorious series, I've also just seen TWO very very exciting covers for next year land in my inbox. SO. MUCH. EXCITEMENT.
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Hannah
2 years
I've worked with romance books for years now and that means dealing with people asking when I'm going to work on 'real' books sometimes 🤬 (true story) & I'm here with @BookMinxSJV to say that it's well overdue that we #RespectRomFic
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Hannah
1 year
LinkedIn has just told me that I've now been a literary agent for TWO years?! It's been a busy couple of years and I thought I'd take the chance to celebrate some bits in a mammoth thread... bear with me 🐻✨
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Hannah
5 years
This weekend P and I have moved into our new home. Obviously first up was sorting the books & boardgames. When he first messaged me, it was asking about my TBR pile. Now our books live together. Whaaaaaaat 😱
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Hannah
4 years
I have just received the most INCREDIBLE mystery cupcakes!!! Who is responsible for this amazing treat?! I am so excited 🦄🦄🦄🦄
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Hannah
2 years
How many magnums* is too many magnums? Asking for a friend. *Ice cream, not large bottles of champagne.
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Hannah
2 years
Finished an edit this evening and the book is so good that I've had an adrenaline rush and can't sleep. I realise this is very very sad...
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Hannah
1 year
Editors, you know when you give someone editorial feedback and they redeliver and then there is that moment of apprehension before you dive in when you're SO hopeful they've pulled it off? Well I'm having the joy of reading a book that has been SO BRILLIANTLY revised. Such a joy!
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Hannah
3 years
This week and next @hayleyemmasteed and I are meeting LOTS of US editors and I have to keep pinching myself that this is my job. We just get to talk really excitedly about books that we love to other people who really love books 👌
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Hannah
4 years
@hansmollman I was walking home at night (1am?) and a car full of men with their windows down yelled at me before looping back to follow me into the deserted residential streets near where I was living. They slowed to walking speed & when I heard a door open I ran the rest of the way home.
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Hannah
3 years
The email and Google Hangouts has been removed from my phone, the laptop handed over to the incredible @martina_arzu and the keys handed back! It's official: my time at @Aria_Fiction with all of my wonderful authors is over 😭😭 Exciting job news soon!
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Hannah
1 year
Such a gorgeous night at the HarperCollins do! Always fun, but so great to see my lovely authors, lots of pals and met so many new people too! Also only fangirled a couple of times, so that's a win 👌
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Hannah
2 years
Pals, I've got the flu. I'm missing the work christmas do. *laughs in hysteria*
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Hannah
2 years
Spent the last two weekends embroidering myself a Christmas sweater ahead of the work Christmas do on Tuesday and it is finally DONE and I'm SO PROUD. (This makes it sound intricate but I'm actually just very very slow and unskilled 😂)
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Hannah
2 years
A lovely time at #LBF23 this year, meeting SO many new people, excitedly talking about books and walking a million steps around Olympia. It's a highlight of the year, but we all deserve to put our feet up this weekend! (Feel weird posting pics of people online hence the emojis)
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Hannah
8 months
Losing my mind at my own bunting for @KirstyStories from @katie_loughnane and @centurybooksuk
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Hannah
3 years
I've wanted to be an agent ever since I discovered agenting was a thing, so this is an utter dream come true. Editorial has been fantastic and I've worked with so many truly wonderful people, but I'm beyond excited to have found my home in publishing 🥰
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Hannah
2 years
Editors, I have a question for you! How would you feel about agents adding a content warning on their submissions? A line on any aspects of the plot that may be particularly hard to read, or if any themes might hit a bit close to home. Thinking of doing it going forward but?
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Hannah
1 year
Still chuckling after emailing an editor yesterday and realising both our partners are at the same boardgame convention this weekend. Publishing girlies Boardgame boys 🤝
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Hannah
2 years
The last few weeks have been some of the most intense and wonderful times. Big work stuff, working with amazing new clients, hitting the one year mark at the 'new' job and moving house! Very happy, very tired and yet super energised for so much exciting stuff ahead 🥰
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Hannah
5 years
Just clocked out of work until 2020. Let the adventures begin!
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Hannah
3 years
To hold myself accountable: - This year I'm going to communicate assertively, setting boundaries & swapping out apologies for gratitude. - I'm going to do something 'healthy' every day, be it taking a walk, eating extra veg or just doing something I enjoy. A happy 2022 ahead 🥳
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Hannah
2 years
Cosy crime fans, ready yourselves... It really has been a whirlwind & I'm so proud of @CLMillerAuthor for creating the MOST fun puzzling read. So chuffed it's found such a wonderful home with @fpathak & the @panmacmillan team. Let's get hunting 🔪🦉🕰️
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1 year
Currently in a uni halls room in Oxford prepping for a talk I'm doing tomorrow for the summer creative writing class here. University-Han who went to Oxford Brookes up the hill would be losing her mind. So grateful to my amazing uni lecturers for all they did for me back then 🩷
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Hannah
5 years
Today I peaked. (With the context that we were almost 5k meters above sea level, this joke is a HOOT)
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Hannah
1 year
We're at #TheakstonsCrime today so come and say hello! Saskia and I are very friendly, promise ☺️
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Hannah
2 years
Spent the last two weekends embroidering myself a Christmas sweater ahead of the work Christmas do on Tuesday and it is finally DONE and I'm SO PROUD. (This makes it sound intricate but I'm actually just very very slow and unskilled 😂)
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Hannah
3 years
Really enjoying watching an exchange on my train this morning between a young woman and an older man who don't seem to know one another. She's asked him how his book is, what his fave genres to read are and they've been chatting happily for the last twenty mins 💖
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Hannah
3 years
@hansmollman I love her so much! This is a personal fave too.
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Hannah
3 years
Writing Twitter, please do your thing: I would LOVE to represent the book equivalent of Only Murders in the Building. Clever writing, humour, intrigue and fun. Still thinking about it weeks and weeks later 🕵️‍♀️ Submissions are open:
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Hannah
2 years
Back to work tomorrow... Do you think it's socially acceptable to take a weighted blanket and oodie to my desk? Asking for a friend 👀
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Hannah
2 years
About to PASS OUT with the joy of having been approved for Emily Henry's Happy Place on Netgalley. No words 💓
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Hannah
2 years
@stephpaigek Sewing class! She did seem lovely and we went back to chatting a bit after a brief pause while we carried on our own things 😂 I respected the honesty but was also a bit lost for words in the moment!
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Hannah
3 years
Went to the cinema to watch West Side Story, but the projector caught fire two minutes in. So now I'm on my way home with popcorn and a Coke, looking like I went to the cinema for a snack run...
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Hannah
3 years
Have just sent the MOST gushing email to a client having read their latest manuscript which included the words 'I would read your shopping lists if you chose to publish them'. Too much? All I'm saying is you will LOVE what @imogenclark has in store for you all...
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Hannah
3 years
Doing victory laps of my flat today having finished the week with lots of exciting news and manuscript deliveries from my lovely authors! Will be sharing soon but GAH, 2022 is shaping up to be pretty special 🥰
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Hannah
2 years
A favourite part of walking around Waterstones and The Works on weekends is seeing the books that so many amazing ex-colleagues and I have worked on with the fab authors. So lovely to see it all come to fruition 💕 Sponsored by a trip to York this week!
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2 years
Unrepped cosy crime writers: I would like to hear from you! I have a really hot IP idea that would be SO FUN & I just need to find the right person to work with... slide into the DMs if you think it's you! Ideally (due to the idea) with some prev. publishing experience ☺️
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3 years
Back in the office for the day and have forgotten how to function: It took me a good minute or so to realise my phone wasn't connected to my headphones so the whole office was being blasted with the Encanto soundtrack 👌
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1 year
The traditional #TheakstonsCrime photo 🔪🪑
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Hannah
5 years
A year ago today I was just talking to this numpty. Little did I know we'd later making plans for our upcoming anniversary. Yep we're celebrating a year together, but if you don't celebrate the small stuff then what's even the point?!
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6 years
This is what happens when you match with another book nerd. (Doesn't he know it's the TBR pile though?!) 🤓 📚
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1 year
I am OVER THE MOON to be working with @manejansour . When I read her incredible book club novel, Elinor and I couldn't stop talking about it... And then we met and hit it off too! The total dream 🩷 Welcome to the team, Jane 💖🏃🏼‍♀️🌏 Editors it's going to be a LBF 2024 sub!
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We're delighted to welcome the incredible @manejansour to the MM Agency!🎉🎉🎉 Jane is working on her all-engrossing debut: a zeitgeisty, book-club novel with a twist to die for. We haven't been able to stop raving about it since we first set our eyes on it. Welcome, Jane!✨
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Hannah
3 years
Had a little helper at lunchtime today while I was checking edits! Her editorial feedback could do with some finessing but 10/10 for effort.
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6 years
This is what happens when you match with another book nerd. (Doesn't he know it's the TBR pile though?!) 🤓 📚
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2 years
Don't think P had been aware that the train for his birthday trip away would be filled with the ENTIRE publishing industry headed to Harrogate. Every floral dress/dungarees worn onto the train he adds another to his tally 😂
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Hannah
2 years
At #LBF23 this year, I'm going to be talking everyone's ear off about @KirstyStories hilarious voicy romcom with a magical twist. It's Emily Henry meets The Good Place & we're going on sub very soon 😍 UK editors, slide into the DMs if you'd like a read!
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2 years
Every single part of me needs the sun and spring. My vitamin D deficient body and my lil chapped pale skin and my sun-loving soul. Please someone tell me we're nearly there? 🥹
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Hannah
3 years
A fab part of being an editor is briefing covers, and working with designers to find a look that suits the novel you've loved enough to acquire. We have to consider the market, genre cues, our audience and, of course, the book itself. 🧵
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2 years
My mum got stuck in a lift today (she's ok, it was in my Nan's flat building) & I know this industry has ruined me because my first thought was: that would make a great meetcute! The person on the other end of the lift alarm? A passing stranger who sits down to keep her company?
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3 years
Blimey! 7 years on the bird app. One of my biggest recommendations to #publishinghopefuls is to get twitter and use it to network. I've had colleagues contact me via Twitter in the past about new roles & it's a great way of making friends in a WFH world too! #MyTwitterAnniversary
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2 years
Oh no, I've nearly finished Book Lovers and I don't want it to end. Can I do a Charlie and just not finish it? This book has quickly become one of my all time favourites and GAH Emily Henry is an absolute genius.
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2 years
I'm editing the wonderful @KatieA_M 's debut historical fiction novel. And I'm just quickly resurfacing to say that it is SO BEAUTIFUL and so good that my heart is aching. An absolute masterclass in 'showing not telling', and she brings characters to life with the tiniest details
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2 years
Have made a serious error and am sitting down on the bus after a spin class. I don't think I'll ever get up again. I am destined to ride the bus in full circuits forever. Help.
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4 years
I recently got some rollerskates and have been practising on the estate (exhibit a). Tonight I was watched by three little girls who then ran away and came back with THEIR rollerskates. My heart 😭😭
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7 months
How it started & how it's going... Honestly reading Grace's spooky, Appalachian-set novel was what dreams are made of... it was like it was written it just for me! For fans of 💚 Enemies to Lovers 👻 Monsters & Cryptids ⛰️A setting that feels like a character I'M SO EXCITED!
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Grace Viall
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I have #TuesNews ✨️ I'm thrilled to announce that I'm now represented by @PalindromeTodd at @MMLitAgency !! Hannah and I got along so incredibly well from the very first email, and I can't wait to work with her! #agentnews #amwriting #writersoftwitter #WritingCommunity
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1 year
I am SO happy to say that I am now working with @el_vendrell on the most BLOOMING lovely sapphic romcom that is based around the heist of a rare orchid. With sizzling chemistry, laugh-out-loud humour and the fun romp of your fave heisty fiction!
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Hannah
6 years
*Deep breath* So I hinted at more info to come on my editorial freelance work, and here it is! I've set myself up a website, and I'm also available on Reedsy for all your word-tinkering needs. Please do pass it on, just in case people are interested 💖
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Hannah
2 years
On my way home to P and not seen him in six days or so. It is utterly hopeless but I am SO excited to see him. Love is so nice isn't it? (Ft. Us being exhausted moving house earlier this year)
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3 years
Clocking off from Twitter for the weekend. I appreciate all those who are bravely sharing their stories, I just need to look away for my own good this weekend. We're all feeling such despair and I'm not sure what we can do to change things. Off to see my lovely nan for r&r 💖
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