V. moved & honoured to win Publicist of The Year, voted by
@BAbooksellers
UK booksellers. Unanimous, they said. Oh my days. Got up, nearly lost my words. 😭 Award named after my dear, much missed colleague Sophie Christopher who had the tenderest heart for bookshops & writers ❤️
🏆 📚🎉 I love my job. I’m fortunate to work in a creative business with an outstanding team; brilliant writers, energetic booksellers, enthusiastic journalists, producers, reviewers, bloggers. Forgive me, but heck! I won an award 😆🎉📚 This what judge Larissa
@Waterstones
said:
Always promised my family a dog
The deal? That I got to call him Jackson (Brodie)
(being a Kate Atkinson fan & all) The young ones not so keen on that name.
Not so keen at all.
I’m persuadable.
So here he is. Our puppy.
Reggie.
Still I got my wish. Always an Atkinson fan.
*Giveaway* To celebrate the April 28 U.K. opening of
@HaroldFryFilm
I’ve a little bag of treats & a signed film tie-in of
#RachelJoyce
’s award-winning, moving, funny and hopeful novel. ❤️📚 👞 👞 RT & follow for a chance to win! Preview screenings here:
My 91 year old friend Mary just sent me this snap of her Stay Safe Project - knitted for her 1st great-grandchild born last week in lockdown. My heart just soared. 💕 🧶 🌈
#StayHomeSaveLives
I was so very lucky to work for over 10 years with brilliant, funny, kind, fearless, wise Paul O’Grady promoting his volumes of memoir. I adored him. Here he is (in my blurry snap 📷) celebrating with his dear pal Jilly Cooper at a book launch. Sending love to his dear ones. 💔
Out in paperback one month today,
#WaitingForSunshine
☀️ 💛📚 by
@SandersonJane
is a heart-stealing story of love and belonging and about finding your happy family. I’ve got five early copies to giveaway! RT & follow and I will pick winners & mail out on Monday 20 Feb! ☀️💛📚
My brilliantly clever cousin, he makes little houses from paper offcuts - I couldn’t love them more. Perfect mini festive gifts and can be crafted from pages! ❤️📚
The new Kate Atkinson novel
#ShrinesofGaiety
is EVERYTHING you would hope for. Stuffed to the edges of every page with character, atmosphere, mystery, incident. And yes, of course. A 🐕. Proofs: mailing soon. Out 27.9.22. 💙📚 Design:
@marianneissaelk
Stepped away from social media for a moment. Returned to see
#bookbloggers
being criticised for having “no reach or influence”. Wish someone had told us that when we kickstarted this campaign with one.
I ❤️
#bookbloggers
📚
I have a friend. We love books and reading. We send messages of ❤️ in small quiet moments. She’s the greatest listener I know. Which is more moving than it seems. She’s open,warm, friendly. Kind and funny. She does hair. Brilliantly.
I have a friend. We love books and reading.
This is the face of a book PR who has spent (so far) 27 days on book tour (over 2.1k miles ) up and down the country with brilliant writers, talking with readers, booksellers, festival teams, bloggers and sharing all the best stories. Going home for the weekend… 😴❤️📚
I’m in York. 28yrs ago here I nervously met at
@Bettys
a debut author who’d go on to sell millions of books, win multiple awards, be critically acclaimed. Someone I’m proud to call my friend. She gave me a behind the scenes tour of her childhood city. We had tea.
#KateAtkinson
This week has once again reminded us of how wonderful books people are - and she was, unequivocally . We have lost a shining light: effervescent, smart, funny, brave, the biggest heart. Thank you to all who have expressed your kindness through sorrow. 💔📚
I made (yet) another of those collage things with some of the books & brilliant writers I’m so lucky, excited (and v proud) to work with over the next few months. 2019? Still looking pretty great from here ❤️📚
#lovemyjob
#publishing
#bookpromotion
#books
It has been a year of many challenges.
And, still.
While remembering what is lost,
Remembering also what we have.
Here are the writers with whom I’ve walked so happily in 2019.
Books and stories might save us, in the end. ❤️📚
💙PROOF GIVEAWAY💙
I’ve been sharing proofs over on Instagram, and now it’s your turn!
For a chance to receive 1 of 10 proofs of
#RachelJoyce
’s new novel (Out Oct 20th); RT and follow. Ends 9am Mon 8 Aug. U.K. only (apols)
#MaureenFry
💙📚 👣
Aside from those I read happily for work (often several times) for my joyous book PR job, here are the best I read in 2020 which moved me, connected, thrilled, tilted, uplifted, shook me - and linger still in the echoey spaces in my head. Books are amazing, it turns out. ❤️📚
Beside-self thrilled 💥 to announce a dazzling new novel from global No. 1 bestseller
#KateAtkinson
1926. 💥In a country reeling from The Great War, London hums with delirious new nightlife. Queen of it all is the notorious Nellie Coker...
#ShrinesofGaiety
is out 27.9.22 ❤️📚
I made another collage thing with some of the books and brilliant writers I’m so excited (and v proud) to work with over the next few months. Here it is. Aren’t I lucky? ❤️📚
#lovemyjob
#publishing
#bookpromotion
Monday night. Went out. Won a thing. 🎉📚💙💛❤️💚 🏆
Mega thanks
@publicitycircle
judges led by
@carosanderson
& big respect fellow shortlistees most esp. highly commended
@meadolivia
All gratitude
@bonniegarmus
- working alongside you is the best prize anyone could have. 🧪
SHE’S A WINNER!! There aren’t enough words for how proud we are of the incredible
@alisonbarrow
for this richly deserved and brilliant award win for
#LessonsInChemistry
. You absolutely nailed it, dear AB 💚💛💙❤️ 🥇
My work: often uplifted by pinch-me moments 💫 like this one: 3yrs nearly to the day we 😃🎉 acquired rights to publish
#LessonsInChemistry
by
@BonnieGarmus
we find ourselves in comfy cinema seats watching the first ep of the
@AppleTV
series. Coming to screens this Friday! 📺 📚
Haven’t read a book for over 2wks. Head won’t settle. Yet I know in difficult times stories do salve. Yesterday: sat quietly alone in the sun, shrugging off residual guilt of daytime reading (on a weekday!) & instantly transported.
#Hamnet
#maggieofarrell
Thank you, Maggie. ❤️📚
Oh. Oh! I mean- just take a peek 🥺 📸 💫 FIRST LOOK 💫
Here’s a sneak look at Academy Award® Winner Jim Broadbent 🥰 as
#HaroldFry
in the movie based on the bestselling book by Rachel Joyce. Penelope Wilton 🥰 stars as
#MaureenFry
& it’s coming to cinemas April 28th 2023. 🎉
I took some books on holiday. I took some long walks and took in the views. I may well have taken some photos. These are the novels I read. All outstanding. ❤️📚
*NEWS* 💙📚🎉 A new Kate Atkinson book is always a moment to celebrate! This delicious, funny, intimate and magical collection is the perfect gift.
And we have proofs coming soon. I shall just wait here a bit for your requests...💙📚🎉
"This is a collection of gems – cleverly crafted, wise, intricate and humorous."
@DoubledayUK
has announced Kate Atkinson’s latest book, Normal Rules Don’t Apply.
Read here:
Poised to send off proofs 📕 for this beautiful, lyrical, spirited novel. Have paused to reread this exquisite paragraph on love❤️ Would you take a chance to receive one of 20 copies which have my full endorsement for a joyous read without knowing what it was?! Coming April 2024.
Long day working. Just finished and FaceTimed dad who proceeded to read brilliant chunks of the new
@SusieSteiner1
novel to me. Oh, my heart. Isn’t it The Best when people you love, love the books you love? ❤️📚
Journalists, producers & reviewers: we book publicists will be more than happy to send PDFs/Netgalley links/proofs to home addresses, where helpful. We also also have some printed proofs we can direct deliver to you if helpful. Just let us know. ❤️📚
While hand holding isn’t possible, I have this. And I will hold yesterday’s walk in my hand and heart while waiting for better days. And they will come.
I made another of those collage things with some of the books and brilliant writers I’m so lucky, excited (and v proud) to work with over the next few months. 2019? looking pretty great from here ❤️📚
#lovemyjob
#publishing
#bookpromotion
Immeasurably moving Helen Dunmore winning tonight
@CostaBookAwards
She was also the first ever
@WomensPrize
winner. Our loss is so much the keener tonight. All those yet unwritten words. A glorious night for poetry. ❤️📚
Check your post! ✉️ 💙
#KateAtkinson
#ShrinesofGaiety
proofs are in!
And landing shortly…
(Don’t they look smart?)
And there’s a clue here on the inspiration for Kate’s novel…
#SecretsOfThe43
publication: 27.9.22
I'm honoured to serve as a
@womensprize
trustee and I wholly support this important statement. Transphobia and prejudices of any kind have no place here. ❤️📚
Sun is shining 🌞
Books are transformative 📚
Readers are the best humans ❤️
Words are forever 📖
Booksellers spark magic 💫
We are here. This is now.
Book people,let’s do this📚❤️💫
🎉🎉🎉💙💛❤️💚🎉🎉🎉
📚thank you readers
📚thank you booksellers
📚thank you book bloggers
📚thank you Team
#LessonsInChemistry
📚thank you for posting
📚thank you for championing
@BonnieGarmus
UK Official No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
🎉🎉🎉💙💛❤️💚🎉🎉🎉
Oh my ❤️! Look here 👀 a first glimpse of himself, Six Thirty 🐕 on screen in the
@AppleTV
adaptation of
#LessonsInChemistry
💙💛❤️💚 📺 with Brie Larson as Elizabeth Zott and Lewis Pullman as Calvin. Coming 2023. Can’t wait! 🎬
2024 📚📚📚shaping up very nicely. My festive break is full of decisions about which one to sink into first. Which would you pick? ❤️📚 As always: thanks to publicists and publishers for sending these! x
30yrs ago this month I first joined
@TransworldBooks
(I know...I KNOW!) same day as dear colleague
@patsyirwin
- Last night I found my first ever (ripped 😞)business card (what a moment!) where once I worked with legends
@richardb3swick
@saradwheeler
Alan Samson, Caroline North
She's back! 💙📚
Paula Hawkins' brilliant
#TheBlueHour
coming from
@DoubledayUK
in October.
This novel asks questions of ambition, power, art, perception.
Intimate, tense, twisty, it's a novel Paula says she's been longing to write. Proofs soon. 💙📚
Dear
@DavidNWriter
- there'll be days ahead (months, years) when you wonder - did it all happen? Did they really say good things? A teeny bit of advice (if I may?) Make a praise folder. Tuck it all inside. For the days when it all feels so - far away & unreal. Take a peek. ❤️
Yesterday: “How long is it since we last saw each other for real?”
“Months.”
“Easily. October? Were we allowed then?”
“I don’t know. A long time.”
“You won’t be late?”
“No.I won’t be late.” (I am often late).
Today: I see mum off screen. It’s her birthday. We will eat cake.🍰
Finished copies are IN. Delicious. 🍋💛📚 This novel will rock your world. Not since Nora Ephron has any writer navigated, interrogated, spliced friendship so effectively. Moving, hilarious, heart-splitting. I’ve promised 1 to a few. Please remind me ⬇️
#WeAllWantImpossibleThings
How is this year flying by so quickly? Here, to stop me (and you, I hope) momentarily in the tracks are some of the amazing books and stories I am fortunate to be shouting about right now. Come, join me in spreading that delicious word-of-mouth thing. ❤️📚 (and thank you)
Here at
@TransworldBooks
our authors have like basically got your whole life stories stacked up for Spring 2020. Don’t you just need these in your world right now? ❤️📚 RT & We will send to one lucky reader. UK only.
Proofs in, ready to mail for this oustanding debut novel. Haunting, irresistible,
#TheIllnessLesson
- an intensely vivid story of women's minds & bodies & the time-honoured tradition of doubting both. Out February 2020
@DoubledayUK
❤️📚 (oh & praise from
@JoyceCarolOates
)
A few 2024 proofs which I've been so grateful to receive in the last few weeks. Are any of these on your radar? Excited to dive in, where shall I begin?! (Photographed in our offices)
❤️❤️📚📚
All the messiness, the joy, the relatable fierce juggernaut of emotions that makes female friendship, captured in this brilliant debut novel
#Wahala
from
@NikkiOMay
- out in PB on 2 Feb but I’ve got FIVE beautiful copies to share. RT for the chance to read it! 🧡📚 Closes 27.1.23
Feast your eyes! 👀 The perfect 📚 💫 Stairway of Spines 💫 📚
The Bookery showcasing
@roowaterhouse
work in their beautiful shop. To
#win
a £25
@thebookeryhq
token (not exchangeable) to spend in the shop or online, RT & follow them. UK only. 1 random winner picked by 6pm 23/5
Last night at U.K. premiere for
#HaroldFryFilm
in perfect company of Rachel Joyce, who brought us this story 11 years ago & has adapted it herself for screen. 📚 🎥 It’s a hymn to community, to hope, and to the beauty & brutality of countryside. Highly recommended. bring a hankie
Getting ALL the praise, The astonishing new novel
#TheQueenofDirtIsland
is ‘Donal Ryan at his inimitable best… Beautiful, compassionate,’ - and this from Maggie O’Farrell! Out next week: 18 August. 💙📚 I’ve 3 proofs to share! RT and like by 6pm 10.8.22 for your chance 💙📚
Book reviewers! Here’s a novel for summer. For joy, hope, friendship. A novel for ALL summers.
#ExpectationBook
@Anna_Hope
has been adored & admired already by so many. Out in July but I’ve a few review copies to send out. RT me for yours and find out what they have loved. ❤️📚
I made a messy cake for charity. Sprinkles all over the place. Found icing in my sock 2hrs later. In happier news, it matches a gorgeous 2021 book I’m cheerleading for. And it tasted delicious (the cake)
#LenniAndMargot
@itsmcronin
Coming Feb 2021. Cake: eaten. 🍰📚❤️
I just FaceTimed my mum, 84, in a care home, infirm. We talk everyday.Screens have saved us.Each day we say: what was the best thing about today?
Earlier, she replied, I held your dad’s hand for the first time since last July.
Married 62 yrs.
3yrs apart.
1 moment of joy. ❤️
With a memory such as mine (wobbly), I am keeping this handy pic so that when I’m asked (and often I am, lucky me!) which books would you recommend, I can say:
These ones.
My best books of 2021 ❤️📚 (alongside those brilliant writers whose books I promoted ofc)
It’s Friday. Yes, it really truly is. I double (triple 😬) checked and what’s more, someone has graciously offered to help in the home office today. Apologies in advance to anyone who gets a rogue bxciouskjhhhhbiouss email. 🐶
Heart: Soaring! 💫
A new Armistead Maupin
#TalesofTheCity
novel is on the way! 📚❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 🌈
Prepare yourselves for the return of Mona Ramsey and other much-beloved friends... March 2024 from
@DoubledayUK
#MonaOfTheManor
(proofs coming next week!)
This will be THE literary crime debut novel of 2021. A stunning achievement for
@annafbailey
- a fictional voice which stirs and soars across every page.
#TallBones
is coming APRIL 2021. And yes - of course - I have proofs 😊📚❤️
@DoubledayUK