Lauren Brown
@Laurenrbrown95
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Writer | words in @thebookseller | author of Hands @HarperNorthUK - writing rep’d by @mariliasavvides . From Teesside ✨🏗️
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Actual footage of me imploring you to read my memoir about growing up anxious!
"A thoughtful, hilarious tour of life as a person with obsessive behaviours ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️”
🥲
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@ndimichino
@DBanksy
Please can someone do a full on old-style horse racing commentary on top of this
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Excited to say that after joining
@thebookseller
on a maternity contract last March I'm now joining the team permanently, continuing as a senior reporter📚
I love it and the team and am so chuffed. Send book trade stories and tips my way / say hi! Lauren.brown
@thebookseller
.com
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@blondepreneur
Isn’t it just, I went over and told him he played beautifully and he said no one had said that to him for months bless his heart
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Anyone who knows me will know this is something of a dream for me, so it brings me much much joy to share that from around March I’ll be joining
@thebookseller
team as a senior reporter for the next year 😍✍🏻📚
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Since this has taken off somewhat, I guess the done thing is to promote something, so: I work with a dedicated team of talented journalists who work tirelessly to tell heartwarming/informative/breaking/quirky/etc Cambridgeshire stories every single day. Head to
@Cambslive
🥰
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💜⚡️COVER REVEAL⚡️💜
I’m so excited to share with you the gorgeous cover of my upcoming book, Hands, designed by the brilliant
@annabookdesign
!
Thank you, too, to
@matthaig1
for helping adorn it in lovely words
Out Jan ‘22, pre-order here:
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Please somebody tell me it’s ok not to have a clue what you’re doing in your twenties
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Have any of you ever done a creative writing course and was it worth it? I’m so torn because I hear so much bad press and ££££ 🥵 but I also really want the guidance and to develop - any thoughts / recs / advice?
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Episode 1 of
#DragRaceUK
is such a hilarious exposure of the chasm between what ru Paul expected the U.K. to be like (regal opulence) vs what it really is like (“I’m a fukern gob shite from Blackpool n a love nob”)
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Can’t recommend
@samaritans
Jo email service enough - especially for anyone feeling like they can’t physically talk about it on the phone or otherwise anymore
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After an extraordinary year and a half
@thebookseller
, today is my last day. I'm excited to share that from next week, I'll be joining
@CHEERIOPublish
as their new Project Administrator 👋
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So excited to finally be able to share details of my debut, Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked, with you📚👇🏻out in hardback, e-book and audio in January 2022
Pinch me!
@HarperNorthUK
#BookTwitter
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@EllisLandreth1
Have given him a follow and hope the surge of support has restored his faith and made him feel supported 💝 kids can be so cruel.
@PenguinUKBooks
@penguinrandom
@HarperCollins
@HarperCollinsCh
@MacmillanKidsUK
can surely show him some support and send some books?
@davidwalliams
?
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Look what the postman just brought 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I’ll never get over the feeling of unboxing my own books. Never ever ever 💙🧡
My whole heart/fears/loves/dreams/weird habits/stories/neuroses on the page, available for pre-order now/out Jan 5th. I really hope you’ll love it
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🔸🔵🦋🧡 GIVEAWAY 💙📘🔷🍊
Because January is grim and dull and bloody freezing and I’m told my memoir is warm and funny and all round scrumptious I’m giving a copy - with a lil message inside from me - away ✍🏻
Just follow + RT before 5pm tomorrow (21st) for a chance to win 👇🏻
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Missing my family so much but forever cheered by watching my gran wave goodbye to me at Billingham train station last week
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I don't care - if you email me with an 'x' at the end or a smiley face, I will love you forever
Cold corporate speak does nothing for those of us with anxiety and small inflections like these are rays of pure sunshine. Professionalism smeshanalism I say
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If nutrition / healthiness wasn’t a thing, what is the one thing you would gorge yourself on all the time? I would simply drink condensed milk by the can, every day, for the rest of my life
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#WritingCommunity
I’d love to connect with more writers from the north of England (bonus points for north east ❤️)! Say 👋🏻
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Apparently today is my one year anniversary at The Bookseller and ♥️. Best job I've ever had.
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OMG, THEY’RE HERE! 😭😭
Proofs of a book I actually wrote! me!
Isn’t she beautiful? 💟
If you want one,
@alicemurphypyle
is your gal (or ofc feel free to DM me, though I’ve limited copies)
@jcdep
@HarperNorthUK
#WritingCommunity
#BookTwitter
@LucyENichol
@HarperCollins
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Anyone else occasionally feel overwhelmed by the amount of new books out and the sense that you should be reading certain things and 𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒕? Anyway that's why I'm now reading an atmospheric 700 page gothic from 1860
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Almost a year ago today I went through redundancy and since I’ve written for publications I admire like the Guardian, have a book coming out with
@HarperNorthUK
and a literary agent I love,
@MariliaSavvides
. Dreams really do come true when you least expect it
#feelingproud
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It still hasn't sunk in that tomorrow (eek!) Hands finally hits the shelves. My ❤️ is so full
Thanks so much to everyone who has already bought a copy, & for those of you who haven't & might yet spot it in an actual bookshop (!!), please send pics! 📚
#booktwt
@HarperNorthUK
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Did you know it's deep, ancient, magic London Book Fair lore that any publishers who are patient with the Bookseller news team in the run up to LBF win every auction they participate in for the next 12 months
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So um like how does anyone know what to do with their lives? Please tell me everyone is also just faking it til they make it
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This is what it feels like walking into Urban Outfitters when you’re older than 21
Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya for Entertainment Weekly
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Look what’s arrived just in time for Christmas! 🤩 and they’re shiny! 😍
Thank you so so much
@HarperNorthUK
@_MegJonesy
@alicemurphypyle
@jcdep
@GenPegg
@MariliaSavvides
@annabookdesign
@HarperCollins
It’s a *dream come true*, and I cannot wait to get it into readers’ hands
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After a stunning and invaluable year as a staff writer and podcast host
@PeopleMgt
I am escaping London and will be joining the
@Cambslive
team as a content editor in July ✍️✨
In the meantime, will hopefully have a mic drop of an episode of
#ThatHRPodcast
coming soon... 🔊
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I'm writing again. Trying not to put too much pressure on whether it's any good or not, whether it will turn into anything, and trying to keep the self doubt at bay - but I'm writing again
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Would totally understand if by the end Julie had screamed “JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP”
#LeadersDebate
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Who knew
@RobGMacfarlane
’s whorling account of finding footing in a deeply old, labyrinthine, flowstoned netherworld would provide a sort of map to aid my navigation of this complicated upper world
#Underland
Read this book! The comfort it provides is unexpected + full
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My book is out in paperback today💙
"A moving, joyful exploration of obsession, forgiveness, stigma + healing. A true love-song to the north"
The brilliant
@matthaig1
@Drkathrynmannix
@RobGMacfarlane
@HelenMort
@natashacarthew
@meifung100
all enjoyed it - maybe you will too?🧡
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Lads do you know HOW MANY rights deals the bookseller team has written this week (BILLIONS) and yet you would deny us a snares? A bags? A nets? A runs away gleefully with, leaving a boardroom of crying competitors in their dust, into the sunset, ready to touch hearts and minds?
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Words can’t express how grateful I am to
@DavidJWhetstone
for his generous write up of the chat we had recently about Hands - just wow. The front page!
To find a reader like David who just gets it is honestly a dream📚
#booktwt
#writingcommunity
@HarperNorthUK
@LucyENichol
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My dad texting from his £10 Tesco mobile is truly a wild ride
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Overjoyed to share that I now have a literary agent - the incredible
@MariliaSavvides
❤️🔥 what I’d give to be able to tell teenage me! 🥂
#amwriting
#NNAD
#NationalNorthernAuthorsDay
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A moment please for the semi permanent winged liner I just did on a train
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Reading some early pages of
@natashacarthew
's guest edited edition of
@thebookseller
ahead of our launch at
#FutureBook22
on Friday, and I feel so seen and heard and emotional and disappointed but, most importantly hopeful that there are people out there bringing about change
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All I'm saying is that if, at the end of this season of Ted Lasso, a publisher doesn't pick up and publish the book fictional character Trent Crimm is throughout this series writing about fictional football club AFC Richmond, I will be very disappointed
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I lap up true crime as much as anyone else, but there’s something so gratuitous and insensitive about
@BBCOne
‘s
#jacktheripper
doc I’ve had to turn it off.
Never going to be solved, weak effort to humanise the women, sensationalises “jack”, of what I watched added nothing new
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Such a joy to talk to
@natashacarthew
,
@juskasim
and
@mahsudasnaith
and launch our
#WorkingClass
edition of
@thebookseller
this morning ❤️ thanks to all who came and supported!
#futurebook22
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My partner and I are already 90% speaking in ‘bits’, nonsense words, inexplicable nicknames, stupid voices and in-jokes and I genuinely fear I won’t be able to communicate w the outside world outside anymore after all this.
It’s like an episode of In the Night Garden in here
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If I was a footballer I would simply kick the ball into the net
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"I may have to alter my accent...but I still want to live my dream"
PLEASE DON'T ALTER YOUR ACCENT, ANON😢 You do not have to! It is balm for my soul whenever I hear anyone with a non-London/non-posh accent in publishing + makes me feel better for mine
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Hi lovely people - I'm going to be dusting off my hat and doing a bit of freelance reporting for
@thebookseller
in the coming weeks, so if you've any stories/tips my DMs are open and my email address is Laurenbrown[dot]writes[at]gmail[dot]com. Info always handled with care etc. X
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Just started reading this by
@ClareDChambers
and
@thebookseller
did. not. miss. in awarding it the Pageturner award at the Nibbies this year because it is astonishing; I can’t put it down and I am rooting so bloody hard for Jean 🍊🤞🏻
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For
@thebookseller
's Menopause Focus I'm looking to hear from publishers, literary agencies, bookshops + libraries about any work being done to support/inform/educate around the menopause/perimenopause
📩Please get in touch - Lauren.brown
@thebookseller
.com (RTs appreciated)
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Shout out to anyone else who finds this time of year just really hard, when with the cold and dark decisions weigh heavier, thoughts run deeper and for longer and life feels harder, to move slower. Remember you're as loved now as in the sunshine. That's what I'm telling myself
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Guys 😭 I think it went really really well 😭 I *loved* it, felt full of joy and excitement and inspired and entirely comfortable with
@ruth_comerford
and I want to keep talking about my book and my writing! V proud of myself!
This is tonight, it's my first ever in-person event about my book and I'm nervy, lads! 🫠 Authors, please throw all your advice my way on how you do this
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Does anyone have any U.K. based writers retreat recommendations? (Needs to be somewhere you can get to without being able to drive, and prefer less teaching/more just a place of calm/solitude/WiFi/rolling hills etc etc…)
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Was just asked about my “gap in employment” following my redundancy back in August by a potential client/employer, so pls allow me to say it again loud and proud for those in the back: I am self-employed! There has been no gap! I am thriving for what is probs the first time ever!
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The paperback of my memoir Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked comes out on Thurs (5th Jan) and I'd be so grateful for any support - it's been a year since it first came out and 2 since I wrote it, and being a debut author is exciting in many ways but also confusing and strange [...]
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Since MSN messenger is trending let’s relive the time I was dumped after school only for my DIAL UP INTERNET to fail me so I didn’t know and then I had to be double dumped in person
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This is superb. Completely deranged, absorbing, creepy, beautifully written / translated. Can’t recommend highly enough
Out from
@HutchHeinemann
in July
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So mindblowingly, wonderfully surreal to see Hands right at the front of
@Foyles
Charing Cross, and to sign a few too! Thanks to the lovely booksellers who welcomed me ❤️
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Hands (/paws) up if you the name of
#ThatHRPodcast
should be changed to That HR PAWdcast hosted by Evie-May the sausage dog 🙋🏻♀️
You’d have to be barking mad to miss our upcoming episode...
#FestivalofWork
#futureofwork
@CIPD
@CIPD_Events
@PeopleMgt
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We’ve decided on Zelda 🥺🥲
My partner
@powarup
and I will be bringing home this tiny baby girl in a few weeks but have yet to land on a name - any suggestions? ❤️
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For a piece I am interested in speaking to authors whose originally self-published work was then picked up by a traditional publisher, whether recently or otherwise - email me Lauren.brown
@thebookseller
.com
#amwriting
#selfpublishing
#journorequest
deadline noon tomorrow (8th)
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Wrote some words this evening. Not many, and they may only ever stay right where they are, seen by my eyes only, but after feeling so low about my writing for a... while, it felt good, like hope. I felt that stirring, that crackle
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Ted lasso filming is underway in Richmond this is not a drill!!
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Super important article in today’s
@thebookseller
about how
#WorkingClass
publishing hopefuls are being left out - including some really useful suggestions as to what might actually make a difference 👇👇👀
Breaking through the barriers
#WorkInPublishing
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If I so much as cough my dog’s tail wags she’s so happy to hear me 😭 and the love in those eyes! I die
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As an author it's hard not to feel sometimes like your book appeared for the briefest moment, took off, and then just sunk somewhere below the horizon out of sight, into oblivion. But today a reading group reached out to me, a group of psychotherapists in Newcastle [cont]..
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Back at my
@thebookseller
desk this morning after a lovely break -- feel free to share any 🔥stories / things I might've missed in the interim with me at the usual address 📩
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Ever have a book that’s been sat on your shelf for a while and when you get round to reading it’s like “holy shit this has been here, I’ve been living with THIS, and not knowing, this whole time”? Breathtakingly good
Cold Fish Soup by
@AdamJFarrer
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Long time no tweet!
But I wanted to shout to say I've recently gone freelance again👋
So if you/anyone you know is in need of an excellent reader/writer/copyeditor/proofreader then you know where to find me, my DMs are open or I can be reached at Laurenbrown.writes
@gmail
.com📩
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Walked to my local vaccine centre for my booster shot today and was in and out in less than ten minutes.
We’re so at risk of taking the miraculous NHS for granted, but walking home earlier I really felt the weight and truth of that fact. We are so, so lucky
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walked the dog and a bunch of the other local dog walkers were also there and when I left I said 'enjoy the rest of your days!' bc there were several of them so my brain pluralised days but it actually just came out sounding like a threat which is great
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Back with
@thebookseller
for a few days this week! So send me your stories / tips / best jokes (bonus points if book-related) -- Laurenbrown.writes
@gmail
.com 📚📩👀
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This is tonight, it's my first ever in-person event about my book and I'm nervy, lads! 🫠 Authors, please throw all your advice my way on how you do this
On March 8th
#InternationalWomensDay
,
@MetLitSalon
is hosting an evening with authors
@Louise_m_perry
and
@Laurenrbrown95
, who will respectively discuss the state of the sexual revolution and mental health. Full details & tickets:
#ad
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Some of my family are visiting London from up north and my boyfriend is meeting them off the train to help them navigate the trains etc (my dad has a 1,000 year old nokia) and he’s printed a sign 😭 my heart
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THANK YOU♥️ to the incredibly generous and inimitable
@matthaig1
for such a kind review of my upcoming debut, ‘Hands’, which he calls “raw, intense and absorbing”
If you haven’t preordered it yet, what are you waiting for?🤞🏻🙏🏻✍🏻 (Cover coming soon!)
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THIS! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
“We need more
#WorkingClass
joy” 🪩
Messages like this from readers of my debut HANDS make all of it — the nerves and the fear and the will people like it — worth it, and I’m so, so grateful (shared w permission) 💟
@HarperNorthUK
@HarperCollins
@ClassFestival
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Just had the most incredible talk with my 98 year old (!!)
@reengageuk
‘call companion’ (dear friend) about her near death experience working machinery during WWII/the Sheffield Blitz and today she signed off “love you, bye my little love”
Best thing I’ve ever done - volunteer!
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If you’re in Cambridge for the love of GOD get patatas bravas from the patatas bravas man on the market
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Surreal and amazing to have my debut reviewed in the latest issue of
@theTLS
🤯
All my gratitude to
@chloelashby
(and, as ever,
@jonathandepeyer
@HarperNorthUK
@MariliaSavvides
)
This week’s
@TheTLS
, featuring James Hall on Raphael; Margaret Drabble on Arnold Bennett; Anon. on the ethics of espionage;
@CrispinSartwell
on Richard Rorty;
@616Clifford
on Alice Walker;
@henryhitchings
on puzzles - and more
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It’s out! 🥹
If Hands wasn’t dedicated to my twin sister/wombmate/blessing of my life
@oliviabrown95
, about whom it’s probably about as much as me, it would’ve been dedicated to all the anxious children who’ve grown up into anxious adults. I see you!
In all good bookshops etc🧡
Happy paperback publication day to
@Laurenrbrown95
whose luminous memoir Hands is out today in paperback!
'Raw, intense and absorbing'
@matthaig1
'A new voice is here!'
@RobGMacfarlane
'As tender and funny as it is painful'
@TheTLS
Get it here:
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For
@MetroUK
I wrote about how fabulously
@amyhart1707
did on
@bbcquestiontime
last night - and why having her on the show sent a really powerful message
Thanks
@JamesBesanvalle
for the commish! 🤩
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Two years ago today I flipped a massive learnèd V to the sixth form head who told me applying to Cambridge was a waste of my time and to all the teachers who underestimated me because I wore mascara, short skirts and kissed boys 👋🏻
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Given the size of his book advances and influence, Matt Haig should set up a fund for young writers who want to cover mental health from disadvantaged / marginalised backgrounds imo, like, how great would that be
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My partner
@powarup
and I will be bringing home this tiny baby girl in a few weeks but have yet to land on a name - any suggestions? ❤️
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I couldn't love the beautiful hardback version of my book more (that pink foil on the spine and cover😍)
So for £3 (?!!) it would, I'd humbly suggest, make a gorgeous addition to any bookshelf - and I hear the book itself isn't half bad either
RTs appreciated 💕
‘Lauren Brown’s debut memoir is a moving and frank account of discovery and reflection. Hands marks Brown out as a startling new working-class writer.’
Thanks to
@natashacarthew
for this endorsement - and Hands by
@Laurenrbrown95
is UNDER £3!
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Reminded every Halloween of the time a woman who didn’t have any sweets went in and got us each a fresh Yorkshire pudding from the roast she’d just made
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I think having lots of books and identifying that with some part of who you are or how you identify is… ok? I don’t think it amounts to “a stand-in for your personality”, no more than having a wall full of, say, warhammer figurines or lovely China dishes
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I can’t tell you how much of a freelancer’s DREAM it is to receive an email from an editor starting “I was wondering if I could commission you t–“ YES, a thousand times yes 😭
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