Rosy Dawson @rosydawsonbooks

Rosy Dawson

@rosydawsonbooks.bsky.social

Writer; LL Women’s Prize Discoveries 2023, Malorie Blackman Scholarship City Lit 2023. Agent: @litagentfran Long Covid - bedbound 2.5 years, recovering as of 2023. Former civil servant. Part time trainee lawyer. Book addict. Swimmer on good days. #BOOKS

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Very proud to be supporting the @womensprize Big Give #ChristmasChallenge with an article of my #longcovid story and how I have been supported as a writer with a chronic illness. Donation link in the article: womensprize.com/writing-thro...

03.12.2024 17:07 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hi new bookish friends! 👋 Any recommendations for novels set in 1960s? I have Anthony Quinn and the Evie Epworth books! #books #bookrecommendations #noideaifhashtagsworkoverhere

17.11.2024 14:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Resharing my wishlist 👇🏻

14.11.2024 09:10 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

How many times is acceptable to watch the new trailer gang?? #fivesofar

13.11.2024 12:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some exciting news… ✨I HAVE AN AGENT✨
I have been signed by Francesca Riccardi of the Kate Nash Literary Agency! I feel extremely fortunate to have found someone with such intelligence, warmth, passion and industry wisdom to champion my dark academia feminist thriller. 🕵️🗡️✍️📚❤️✨ @friccar.bsky.social

15.11.2023 13:08 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Wildly excited for JUST ANOTHER MISSING PERSON by Gillian McAllister - anyone else read this one? #writerscommunity #author #authors #bookworm #readersgonnaread

21.10.2023 14:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Writer here! Nice to meet you Florence!

07.10.2023 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Amazing day at Birmingham Lit Fest seeing Laura Bates. Also at Bham Central Library exploring the Shakespeare memorial room and the possibilities of the Wolfson archive for my detective series… 🕵️‍♀️✍️📚 now - do hashtags work on here?!? #firstpost #amwriting #books #amreading #newbie

07.10.2023 18:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@rosydawsonbooks is following 20 prominent accounts

Little Alex Horne
@alexhorne

from Taskmaster, The Horne Section and Chesham United, mainly.

Eli Keren
@eliarieh

Non-fiction literary agent at the Curious Minds Agency. On the hunt for experts with something to say. Treasurer of the Association of Authors’ Agents. Books, cats and crochet. He/him. Trans ally. 🏳️‍🌈 https://curiousmindsagency.com/our-team

M. W. Craven
@mwcraven

Chatter of 💩, writer of books. Author of Sunday Times bestselling #WashingtonPoe & #TillyBradshaw / #BenKoenig / #JamesBond and the Secret Agent Academy series. Winner of CWA Gold/Steel Dagger/ #Theakstons OP Crime Novel of the Year Award #mwcraven

Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris
@stephmerritt

Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼

Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig

I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. The next book is THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, April 2025. Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 48-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.

Megan Abbott
@meganabbott

NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com

Andrew Hunter Murray
@andrewhunterm

Author (A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering OUT NOW); No Such Thing As A Fish co-host, Private Eye joke-writer, Naked Week host. Agents are RCW (books) and The Agency (showbiz bébé).

Alafair Burke
@alafairburke

Criminal law professor. NYT bestselling author of 20+ crime novels. I like dogs and food (separately). Www.alafairburke.com. New book is THE NOTE–you should get it.

Catriona Ward
@catrionaward

USA Today bestselling author of LOOKING GLASS SOUND 🪞💀🪞, THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, SUNDIAL & more Rep @jennysavill1 & @RStrausAgency Film/TV @mldean_& @unitedtalent

James Oswald
@sirbenfro

I write stuff He/Him https://jamesoswald.co.uk

Jon Courtenay Grimwood
@joncg

Maltese born, Edinburgh novelist. ASD. Lapsed journalist. PhD St Andrews. Writes as Jonathan Grimwood, Jack G & Jon Courtenay G. Owns cat that’s a drug addict. he/him ‘Triumphant…’ FT http://jonathangrimwood.com http://jackgrimwood.com http://j-cg.co.uk

Lorelei King
@loreleiking

Actress, narrator, writer, loves ancient Greek. Charity ambassador for DementiaUK. 💙 Covid bereaved. Trustee for the National Covid Memorial Wall. ❤️ Immigrant.

Andrew Reid
@mygoditsraining

Writer, teacher, maker. Novels: The Hunter (Headline, 2018), The Survivor (Minotaur, coming Spring 2026). Repped by Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment

Linwood Barclay
@linwoodbarclay

Writer, former trailer park operator

Emma Flint
@emmaflint

Writer. Awkward but terribly keen. LITTLE DEATHS | OTHER WOMEN Books, history, coffee, cats, stories, gin 🐈‍⬛ 📚 Agent: Antony Topping Longlisted: Women’s Prize | CWA Gold Dagger | Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year | Guardian Not The Booker

Dr Emma Kavanagh
@dremmalk

Author & psychologist specialising in how the brain works when the world gets extreme. Can be found rambling about trauma, psychology, neuroscience, books & dogs. The dog bit is the best bit. Is occasionally sarcastic.

Nick Quantrill
@nickquantrill

Writer of crime novels and does Hull Noir. Will also contain football and moaning. #MDANT "Cast No Shadow" out now via Black Spring Press.

Sinéad Crowley
@sineadcrowley

Reader, writer, talker, listener. Yes that's me in both pictures

Tony Kent
@tonykentwrites

Criminal barrister, ex-boxer & author of the bestselling Joe Dempsey / Michael Devlin thriller series. Co-founder of Chiltern Kills Crime Writing Festival Co-writer of The Revenge of Odessa alongside Frederick Forsyth Rep’d by Kerr MacRae (MacRae LPA)

Fiona Erskine
@chemicaldetective

Engineer by day. Writer by night. Outdoor swimmer in between. www.fionaerskine.com Agent: Juliet Mushens Publishers: Point Blank (Oneworld), Sandstone Press