Sarah Hodgson

Two weeks PAID work experience working at The Guardian’s London Headquarters for Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic aspiring journalists. Closes 30th March.

Details in link.

Please share :)

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Couldn't be prouder to part of this team.

Every flame tells a story...

Introducing the beautiful new novel from @ruthhoganauthor.bsky.social, The Light a Candle Society.

In bookshops 26th June. Pre-order now from your favourite retailer 🕯️ 💙📚

@mslisahighton.bsky.social

Hard agree, was lucky enough to get a proof of this, and it is VERY good

Greene Door

Our Greene Door Project is open! All details available on our website, open internationally and to writers currently under-represented in publishing.

Deadline: Friday 21st March 2025

#GreeneDoor
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Just finished this book, and I loved it! A perfect setting, deliciously-vile characters, and a relentlessly page-turning plot. This book brilliantly filled the void left by the end of #Succession, and I’m now a firm #RachelNorth fan!
#HowTheOtherHalfDie

Newsletter: January 2025 Hello Dear Readers! In France we are allowed to wish others Happy New Year up to the last day of January. It cannot be said before New Year’s Day and then only through the month of Jan. So, I am ju…

My latest Newsletter
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The Irish bestseller lists printed in the Irish Time and Sunday Times newspapers in the middle of the photo, copies of The Killing Sense on either side and a bottle of Laurent Perrier Champagne in the middle

Def a Champagne moment!! Huge thanx to Corvus books for bubbly! 🙏❤️

The Killing Sense is at No 1 in Original Fiction (Irish Times) and no 3 in the overall SundayTimes chart 💃🎉💃🎉

So so grateful to all the readers who hve bought it, & to everyone who has reviewed it/told yr friends THANK YOU!! 📚💙

Picture of the book cover with a shot of a bloodstained bucket of champagne, and two hands (male and female) on either side holding glasses of champagne, against a backdrop of a turquoise ocean, and an island in the distance. The tagline reads “privilege has a price, but who will pay for it” Also shown is the accompanying letter from the publishing editor, with a description of the book that reads: “Since usurping her brother as CEO, Geri Chalice has grown the family business into a lucrative global empire. She is revered and feared in equal measure. On the eve of her seventieth birthday, Geri gathers her brother's spoilt adult children together on the family's private island and tells them that she's ready to name her successor. Her announcement triggers a frenzy of suspicion, rivalry and back-stabbing. Each of the three siblings believes the role should go to them - despite the dark secrets that they all harbour. As Geri uncovers the black heart of her own family, will the best among them win the prize? Or will the heirs to the Chalice crown finally get what they so richly deserve?”

Very excited to receive an ARC of the latest thriller #HowTheOtherHalfDie by #RachelNorth, via @sarahheditor.bsky.social of #Corvus 🤩🤩🤩
Out June and available to preorder now: www.amazon.co.uk/How-Other-Ha...

Happy Publication day to the inspirational @samblakebooks.bsky.social The fabulously atmospheric & twisty THE KILLING SENSE is out today!

Wow! 🤩 Kate Posey’s debut novel sounds like an absolute cracker! #SerialKillerGames is what happens when two co-workers discover they have some murderous interests in common 😱 Can’t wait! Thanks Corvus Books 🙏 Out May

I have 214.6K followers, and I figure at least some of them are looking to gift books this holiday season, so:

HEY AUTHORS OF BLUESKY: In the comments to this post, tell us (briefly!) about your most recent book, and put in a link to where people can learn more and/or buy the book in question.

Go!

📚 Next up📚

The Killing Sense by @samblakebooks.bsky.social

I'm looking for something gripping and this certainly seems to fit the bill!

Out January 9th. Pre-order uk.bookshop.org/a/10984/9781...

This Black Friday you can support independent bookshops online through Bookshop.org with free shipping on orders all weekend.

Want to discover some great indies to follow on Bluesky? We've put together a starter pack of bookshops across the UK that you can follow now:
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a bus stop at night with a sign that says ' trolley ' on it ALT: a bus stop at night with a sign that says ' trolley ' on it

Readers do you care whether a location in a novel is real or made up?

We're hiring an Agency Assistant! 🚨 Further details about the role and how to apply can be found here: watsonlittle.com/about/careers/ #publishingjobs #publishinghopefuls

We're gearing up for the first #BookTokMadeMeWriteIt vote tonight and it's going to be a biggie!

What should the title be?? YOU decide! 🧡

Sign up to our mailing list now to be notified when voting opens: bit.ly/btmmwi

I am losing followers fast over on Twitter but not sure I am picking them up here. I am still hunting for friends here. If you see me, please follow and shout your name at me. I love the connections. x

Massive congratulations! x

A huge thank you to all the #BookBloggers who took part in #TheBabysitter book tour this month. I'm so grateful. And I love all the spooky autumnal pictures. Thanks to Anne Cater for organising🎃

This is going to be so much fun!
#BookTokMadeMeWriteIt

ALCS members, don't forget to add your articles and magazine contributions to your account before midnight this Saturday (30 Nov) to ensure you're paid for them.

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Screenshot from Spines website with quote from author explaining how pointless editors are

This is my favourite bit - editors changed my text shocker

RIP, BTB. Will never forget reading A Woman of Substance aged about 13 and immediately becoming a feminist

I think there's a strong possibility the founders themselves are AI generated

A screenshot of a header from indie book discovery site shepherd.com showing playwrite and author Naomi Westerman’s three favourite books in 2024: Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde, Yellowface by R. F. Kuang, and Grave Expectations by me, your best friend Alice Bell

A screen grab of a best of 2024 post on Shepherd.com describing why Naomi Westerman liked my book! It reads: I found Alice Bell's Grave Expectations books (the sequel, Displeasure Island, was published this September) quite by accident in a Little Free Library, and they're probably the most purely enjoyable writing that I've read this year. A fascinating unique concept: a teenage girl's best friend vanishes, then her ghost re-appears, giving her the ability to see all ghosts, a skill she uses to earn a living as a medium, and solve murders on the side. These books are very very funny. The humour is very millennial so people who enjoy their murder mysteries on the more traditional side might not love them as much as I do, but really these are the woke, trans-inclusive, millennial murder mystery novels the world has been waiting for, so what's not to love?

I avoid most reviews in general, but when I get tagged in one this nice what am I to do? If you get one of my books as a present for someone this year you are also getting ME a present, thus you are being very efficient.

Congratulations! x

She’s not on here, but I’m going to say it anyway - Holly Battle designs the BEST covers 😎
@atlanticbooks.bsky.social

Big congratulations to you both! xx

I just saw some sleet. Not quite the same...