Lucy Irvine
@lucyirvine93
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Literary agent, children's, YA, & SFF @PFDAgents | My personality is 90% yelling about fictional characters | 🏴🏳️🌈(she/her) (opinions my own!)
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Hi
#amquerying
writers! I've just updated my
#MSWL
with a few more specific areas in which I'm looking to grow my list - I'd LOVE to see more in the romance space (both contemp and fantasy), & would love a cozy fantasy! Submission details & full page here:
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#TransRightsAreHumanRights
, Rishi Sunak is a bully and a bigot, and if you’re a cis queer person and you can’t see the similarities in this rhetoric then I don’t know what to tell you. To my trans authors, industry colleagues, friends, and loved ones- I see you and stand with you
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To the Bookseller, why are you giving a platform to a network build on transphobia and hatred in the same month that you published a Pride issue?
A publishing network for those “concerned about the impact of gender ideology on our sector and wider society” launched today for publishing professionals, authors and creatives 👇
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Some nice Friday news! Although strange and disconcerting seeing my own face in the bookseller rather than my authors
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I am taking submissions!
Currently looking for commercial YA and middle-grade fiction, picture books, illustrated fiction for younger readers, returnable series for all ages, and SFF.
Read more about PFD and how to submit here:
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Submissions open in December for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize for unagented LGBTQ+ authors - we can't wait to read your samples and discover some amazing new writers!
"We are very excited to be launching this fiction prize at PFD to find new talented LGBTQI+ writers",
@PFDAgents
is launching the Queer Fiction Prize, which will have three separate categories for Adult, YA and Children’s Fiction. More here:
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I am SO EXCITED to be working with Cam on her superhero fantasy romance and cannot wait for you all to fall in love with Harper and Tia!! Check out her amazing pitch and editors - keep your eyes peeled 👀
I'M AGENTED ✨
THRILLED to be repped by
@lucyirvine93
at
@PFDAgents
! She really understood the heart of my sapphic hero×villain fantasy romcom—with her sharp editorial skill and passion, I can't imagine a better champion for my author journey and my angsty, vulnerable girls! ⚔️
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It’s been a while since I updated my
#MSWL
: I’m on the hunt for hooky & commercial YA and MG, original worldbuilding & plot driven narratives - & would particularly like to see diverse protagonists across race, sexuality and gender. For more details see:
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BIG FAN of explicit trigger warnings, wish this was standard practice @ publishing industry
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I've updated my website page with a MUCH more specific
#MSWL
- I'm very keen to take on a couple of new clients over the summer so if you write within
#ChildrensBooks
,
#YA
, or
#SFF
then I would love to hear from you! For more details of my taste see:
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as someone notoriously bad at crafting I am SO PLEASED to have successfully put together this book nook LOOK AT IT!!!
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First Bologna Book Fair: ✅✅✅
The children’s rights world is full of such lovely people!! (And the FOOD, you guys. The food was amazing.) Feeling very lucky that this is part of my job
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I think one of my favourite parts of my job is that my clients have all created these amazing incredible characters and I get to meet them before the rest of the world? There are so many characters on my list I would die for, and you guys don't even know them yet. I'm so lucky.
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DELIGHTED that Marisa has accepted my offer of representation, I am blown away by her talent and versatility! We have lots of exciting things in the works so watch this space!
I am thrilled to say that the brilliant Lucy Irvine
@lucyirvine93
of Peters, Fraser and Dunlop
@PFDAgents
is now my agent!
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Flag this community note as unhelpful if you’re comfortable doing so- it’s entirely untrue and has become part of a horrible bullying campaign
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Hello
#QueerPit
! I’m going to be dipping into your pitches this eve/tomorrow morning - I’m open to queries and guidelines are on my website page (link in bio) so if I like your pitch then I’d LOVE to read your submission 🙏✨
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We have moved; Internet is set up; unpacking is in good progress; this is the view from my bedroom; things feel calm for the first time this year
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SO EXCITED to be working with Emily, one of those zoom meetings where i knew after 5 minutes that we were going to click (and not just because we both love doctor who). Watch this space because she's going to be big!
It's official... over the moon to have signed with the amazing
@lucyirvine93
at
@PFDAgents
. I'm so happy that Autumn and I have found our writerly home and can't WAIT to get started.
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Of all my pre-travel anxious ticks, I think the funniest is my need to routinely open my passport just to make sure it hasn’t magically turned into someone else’s passport since I last looked
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I first read a sample of Bridget’s writing as part of
@NewWritingNorth
’s debut award, and even in unfinished form it blew me away (and made me sob!). I’ve been desperate for her to sign with me since and am THRILLED to be ending the year with this news!
I’m ending 2023 with the absolutely ridiculous news that I am now represented by
@lucyirvine93
at
@PFDAgents
🥹 Lucy has been in love with my quirky little YA novel from the beginning and I’m so excited for us to have a go at getting it out into the world 🪐✨
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Harry styles was right
my favorite thing about challengers is, like, it feels like a movie. it feels like a real, like, you know, go-to-the-theater-film movie. it's fun to play in worlds that aren't necessarily your own. this world is supposedly so perfect; it was fun to play pretend in it. it's like
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Had some really good news today at work and I can't talk about it with the relevant person yet and I'm just sitting at my desk like :)))) i want to yell about this! :))))
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In 2022 I would like to read fewer books (outside of work-reading) and to take my time and enjoy reading them all rather than skimming through to hit a goal
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An FYI to anyone querying me - I do not care what time you email me, it is my own responsibility to manage what time I check my emails and querying over the weekend or late at night will not reflect badly on you in any way!
I attended a writing conference where a literary agent said during a Q&A panel that he didn’t appreciate it when writers sent queries via email in the evening. He wanted them to look at what time zone he was in and send it during his morning. Does that seem reasonable to you?
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My therapist, this morning: I thought of you this week because I read a book about pirates, and I knew what all the different parts of the pirate ship were called thanks to you
:)
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Guess who's double vaxxed!! So can the weather get sunny again now pls? (shamelessly posting a selfie instead of my card because I'm on a vaccine trial)
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Good news: We all have a soulmate.
Bad news: Your soul bond means you feel their pain before you’ve even met. And if your soulmate dies . . . you die too.
HAPPY PUB DAY to the superstar that is
@Melliver
& her incredible 2nd book with
@chickenhsebooks
- and to Zoe and Milo ✨
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Delighted to be representing the brilliantly talented Frances and thank you to
@writementor
for bringing us together! Watch this space!
I absolutely thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by
@lucyirvine93
at
@PFDAgents
Huge thanks to
@writementor
for arranging the 121s where I ‘met' Lucy in September! Also
@pippagoodhart
@AmySparkes
@SkylaarA
and Natascha Biebow for their enduring support 1/2
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Just stating this once more because I think it's important for everyone who works in kidlit to makes their positions clear: jk is a transphobe, her statement was hard to read and stomach, trans women are women, and I am standing in solidarity with my trans friends
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McDonald's breakfast, coffee cocktails and iconic torchwood episode 'Cyberwoman' is a pretty great way to start my birthday 🎈
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SO excited to be working with Lerah - the magical world that she has created is so vast and original, the stakes are HIGH and the yearning is real. I’m so in love with this book and I cannot wait to send it out into the world - editors, keep your eyes peeled!
🌻NEWS: delighted to share that I’m now represented by
@lucyirvine93
!
Her editorial vision and enthusiasm for my magical dark academia with Filipino mythology and sapphic yearning was something I shared. Very excited to work with Lucy—thank you for taking the chance on me!
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GOOD MORNING finished copies of The Balloon Thief are here and they are stunning. Out 3rd March with
@chickenhsebooks
@AneesaMarufu
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I am DELIGHTED to be representing Anna and her queer platonic love story IMOGEN AND OLLIE, have been waiting for a book like this for a long time and I can't wait to send it out into the world. Editors, keep your eyes peeled 👀
I'm SO excited to say that I'm now represented by
@lucyirvine93
at
@PFDagents
!
Lucy completely ✨gets✨ my book, and I'm so glad that I get to have her in my corner going forwards! 💖
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My brother, and I cannot emphasise this enough, is NOT a reader. This has brought me so much joy!
@kuangrf
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I'm not retweeting her transphobia onto my timeline, but if anyone reading this thinks
@jk_rowling
's views are okay then please don't send your submissions to me
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*waves*
VERY excited for the judging panel, although not sure how we're going to choose between these 5 amazing manuscripts!
Eager to see our judging lineup?✨
Take a look at with who made up the judging panel for our IET and Times/Chicken House competition here👉:
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Countless brilliant meetings, dinners, & very little sleep later: and we’re finished! Cheers to the best colleagues and friends in the business 🙏
#FBF23
Can’t wait to spend this weekend sitting in a dark room not speaking to anyone
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This week I met one of my authors in person for the first time, have read amazing new drafts of two yet-to-be-announced projects, and have had multiple exciting edits arrive in my inbox. Love my job, love my authors ✨
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I'm going to the office tomorrow for the first time since March and obviously have many Big Worries about this but am currently overwhelmed with the little worries: what should I make for lunch? What should I wear?? How do I match clothes???
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DELIGHTED that we can finally yell about this!! My brain always goes blank when I’m asked to give a bookseller quote, but I stand by “wacky, genre-bending romp of an adventure” you are all going to LOVE IT. So proud of you Melissa!
THE NEWS IS OUT! I have another YA dystopian romance coming out with
@chickenhsebooks
. SOULMATES AND OTHER WAYS TO DIE explores choice versus control, and whether we should really stay with the same person, until death us do part...
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She has arrived and she is GORGEOUS!!
#TheBalloonThief
is coming March 2022 by the inimitable
@AneesaMarufu
, and HUGE kudos to
@jazzbartlett
@chickenhsebooks
for the proof design, I will be staring at the wrapping all day
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.
@writementor
and
@aishabushby
kindly interviewed me at the end of last year - check it out for answers to some FAQs about agenting and my
#MSWL
:
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DELIGHTED to be working with Sarah on her middle grade seafaring adventure novel Briony Calderwood and the Water Witches! Sarah is such a talent and I’m so excited to get going!!
I'm thrilled to announce I'm now rep'd by the fantastic
@lucyirvine93
at
@PFDAgents
! Her enthusiasm for my novel is everything I could want in a lit agent. So excited to work together and for the next steps in my writing journey.
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Really need to stop treating every trip to the office like a day out or I will have no money left for actual days out.. has this stopped me going to Pret twice already this morning? Nope
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Spending December in Wales to circumvent anxiety about the guidelines changing, which means it's time for mum's Christmas decorating
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And the news is out!!
@ava_eldred
's YA debut The Boyband Murder Mystery has been optioned for TV by MGM over a year before publication! We are all SO excited, and special thanks to dream team Jonathan Sissons and Rosie Gurtavoy at
@PFDAgents
for their amazing work 🌟🎉
TV rights to
@Ava_Eldred
's YA debut The Boyband Murder Mystery go to MGM's Orion TV and Brat
(£)
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Genuinely, few things can make me tear up as quickly as Giacchino's scoring for Lost WHAT A SCENE
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#BiVisibilityDay
and also my last day in the office for the foreseeable.. so from tomorrow a return to only being visible to my flatmate x
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Fell immediately in love with Liz's writing and imagination, and I can't wait to send her work out into the world!
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by the wonderful
@lucyirvine93
at
@PFDAgents
.
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Boosting, and would encourage everyone to read if you didn't already when Monisha wrote it in August. The line is ever relevant:
"Cancel culture is a term bounced around by people afraid of accountability. But freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences."
There appears to be a rather large lapse in certain people's memories. THIS is what actually happened.
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It’s been an exciting January
#bookpost
wise, with the publication of The Detention Detectives, finished copies of My Love Life & the Apocalypse and Mind & Me, and proof copies of A Curse of Salt - I’m so lucky to get to work with such talented authors 💪✨
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I just want someone to send round an email saying they've bought biscuits and left them in the usual place!!! I miss the usual place!!!
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Absolutely delighted to be representing Katie - I cannot wait for us to work together and to build upon her already incredible range of fiction and picture books! Watch this space 👀✨
I am OVER THE MOON to announce that I am now represented by the extremely lovely Lucy Irvine at the wonderful PFD! 😊🎉🍾📚💕
@lucyirvine93
@PFDAgents
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Glass of wine and my submissions inbox is making for a cosy Friday evening ☺️
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Did not think my weird crush on Joseph Quinn in Dickensian in 2015 would come back to bite me in the ass while watching Stranger Things in 2022
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I have just finished reading Persuasion for the first time and SHOW ME a more romantic letter I AM in half agony half hope just reading this!!!
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Can we all appreciate this exchange I had with my 90 year old nan yesterday
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A lovely piece of advice for authors which can be applied to everyone! I have a "happy folder" at work to file emails that have made me smile and nice emails from colleagues, and it is very helpful to scroll through when having a bad day
@Louiestowell
Has someone said to create the “Nice things” folder? Screenshots of every bit of praise! Photos of notes that readers give you! Press cuttings, even edit notes that made you glow. Save them ALL and look at them when you feel gloomy. (I put up notes from readers on a pinboard)
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something that has not yet got old in the 4 years since i've moved to London is being able to pop out to get a takeaway coffee to bring back to the flat. makes me feel like i'm in a movie. no i will not expand on this
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Over the moon to be representing Laila Rifaat and her huge imagination for her middle grade fantasy FATIMA AND THE INVISIBLE NECKLACE, and cannot wait to get started! Watch this space 👀
Dear 69 followers, am delighted to announce that I'm now repped by the fantastic
@lucyirvine93
!
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Not to brag, but I genuinely believe that my authors are the cream of the crop, so lucky to get to work with them all 🥰
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So I actually did write an essay comparing the arcs of Jaime Lannister and John Silver, and in the year of our lord 2020 I have logged back into tumblr dot com to post it. It is here if anyone would like to read it although fair warning it's 5,000 words:
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Will told me he was accepting my offer of representation yesterday with one of the best subject lines I’ve ever received. I’m delighted to be working with him on his brilliantly original middle-grade adventure series - editors, keep your eyes peeled! 👀
Emerging once more from hibernation, because I have something to shout about. I am now represented by the amazing
@lucyirvine93
- excited to see where we go. Thank you for taking me on!
@PFDAgents
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A really boring life update about me is that I have started having toast and marmite for breakfast for the first time since I lived at home, and.. why have I been denying myself this small but elite pleasure for so many years!?
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At the ripe age of 26 have never successfully marathoned all 3 extended editions.... Will today be the day
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Now that I've finished the show I can finally tweet about it without worrying about spoilers - i have fallen deep into the Black Sails hole and i am so invested and so in love and i can't wait to annoy everyone in my life by shouting about it forever
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I am on season 5 of gossip girl and Dan is publishing a book!!! Cannot wait for what presumably is going to be a completely accurate depiction of the publishing process
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Been in back to back meetings since half 8 and outlook isn’t happy with me
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Went for a long walk yesterday which turned into a photoshoot
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Haven't done a submissions update in a while: am aware that I've been very behind this year but am finally carching up and should now have responded to everyone who has submitted to me prior to April 1st!
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Delighted to be representing the amazing
@todayiseena
and her twisty MG murder mystery - a strangled gym teacher, a mismatch team of reluctant friends, and a protagonist with his own reasons for wanting the murder solved 😱✨ I am SO excited to send this book out into the world!
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Bought myself this very age appropriate sweatshirt for turning 27 and I am quite frankly obsessed 🦕🦖
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Kicking off pride month with my first vaccine, love that for me x
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HAVE NEVER HIT PRE-ORDER SO FAST
We are thrilled to announce the adult sequel to the beloved Girls quartet, Think Again, is coming this September! 🎉
Revisit Ellie, Magda and Nadine, now aged 40, and see how their lives have changed... ✨
Pre-order your copy here:
@TransworldBooks
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The news is out!!! Melissa was one of my first ever clients and so this is a particularly gratifying moment - so thrilled that The Undying Tower has found the perfect home with
@AgoraBooksLDN
and can't wait for the world to meet Sadie and the gang!
The news is out! My dystopian trilogy will be published late next year by the incredible Agora Books. There are so many people to thanks, so I'm going to add a little thread and try and remember all my amazing writing tweeps!
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LOVE reading a revised version of a client manuscript which adds in NEW TWISTS, LOVE being surprised when I wasn’t expecting to be surprised, LOVE that this is my job
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First time camping since I last went to Reading when I was 19, I am Anxious x
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Delighted to be representing Alison for her twisty historical mystery set in Bletchley Park, and many more books to come! ✨
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Back at my desk, will get to your emails asap, have had the nicest few days spending time with family for the first time since Christmas 2019
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Absolutely delighted to see
@LisJardine
and
@erandalljones
on this longlist along with fellow
@PFDAgents
author
@Cathy_Faulkner_
and so many other wonderful titles! Big congrats to editors extraordinaires
@katmaisin
@rachel_leyshon
and to everyone longlisted!
We are delighted to announce the longlist for the 2024
#BranfordBoaseAward
. Congratulations to the 25 talented new authors and their editors. 💐🎉
#childrensbooks
#kidlit
#newtalent
Find out more about the 25th anniversary longlist
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I am still pinching myself about this, but VERY excited to be representing Daphne for her incredible written history of Black Sails, and I cannot wait to get to work 🏴☠️✨
Fun update on my book about
#BlackSails
: I now have the loveliest literary agent
@lucyirvine93
representing me. I am so looking forward to working with Lucy.
The challenge - find the perfect gif for “my new agent is fabulous and I am so excited”
One option:
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Would like to start every day with a coffee and a walk in the snow please
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The post has been busy since the start of the year!! Sneak peaks of some of the amazing books publishing this year - 2024 is going to be a good one!
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My sexuality:
Does anyone know if Pirates of the a Caribbean is casting for any scary mermaid voices? ☠️ LMK
@Disney
#PiratesoftheCaribbean
#daveyjones
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And the news is out!! SO excited for Harri, Jas, and Half Light to be let loose into the world.
@ava_eldred
is an absolute joy and every page of her brilliantly twisty mystery is spellbinding. So glad she's found the perfect home with
@nldoherty
and Penguin. Watch this space!
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