Editor & 1/4 of @TheDebutDigest - a newsletter celebrating debut books & authors 💌 Lover of charity book shops, litfic, memoir, sex&gender & indie publishing
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Feeling bookish this Friday? Spend a festive&feral evening with @TheDebutDigest (via Zoom) as we chat to debut authors, Amy Twigg & @lucyrosecreates about their novels of fierce girlhood
Tickets still available! We’d love to see you there 📖🥩🪩🎊🍾🎟️💌✨
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coming back on here to say thanks to everyone who came to the Fantastic New Journeys event at the East Riding Festival of Words the other weekend! I had such a fab time chairing the event representing @TheDebutDigest and chatting with the lovely @Frances_Writes& @Sarah_L_Brooks
+ this was my first time chairing an in-person event since all of our TDD events have taken place online so far. Being on stage with a Britney Spears style mic and an audience whose faces I can actually see was very surreal but I LOVED it!!!!
Literature festivals, please consider me for your interviewer/chair/moderator needs! You can in get in touch via [email protected] 💌
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We are so excited to announce our #Christmas online event 2024 🎄
We are thrilled to be hosting two DAZZLING #Debuts, @aetwigg & @lucyrosecreates
We will be discussing their #Books, feral freedom & fierce girlhood and we would LOVE to see you there!
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A stag party in a remote part of the Lake District.
Four old university friends.
One bizarre hunting ritual...
#CurrentlyReading @danhowarth20's #Debut #LastNightOfFreedom.
I'm HOOKED. My fellow @TheDebutDigest editor, @abiwhitty, reviewed it, and I immediately needed it 🤣
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Eliza Clark's interview in the Guardian this week. The column she mentions is even worse than she describes.
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@TheDebutDigest's very first in-person panel, and it's during @erwordfest @ERLibraries 🩷
The mediator of this cracking #Debut panel is my fellow TDD editor, the fabulous @abiwhitty.
If you can attend this October, we recommend this panel!
Tickets:
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#Debut authors @Sarah_L_Brooks and @Frances_Writes will be chatting about their novels The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands & Voyage of the Damned with our very own @abiwhitty this October 🩷
Come along to the @erwordfest @ERLibraries ✨️
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So excited for this! Please come join us!
#Debut authors @Sarah_L_Brooks and @Frances_Writes will be chatting about their novels The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands & Voyage of the Damned with our very own @abiwhitty this October 🩷
Come along to the @erwordfest @ERLibraries ✨️
festivalofwords.co.uk/whats-…
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'I wanted to write something for her - and for my teenage self'
On the blog, Moira Buffini reflects on the differences between screenwriting and writing a novel and why she decided to write for Young Adults: exyu.short.gy/18FIeE
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What we're doing today:
🖤Delighting in the fog outside
🖤ms edits
🖤Sending over the FIRST! creative brief to our book cover designer
🖤Reminding readers to snag their copy of Bear Season before prices goes up next month*
*Today only: use code BEARUK for free UK postage 🩷
Tonight is the night!!! Literally so buzzing, there’s over 80 of you joining us! That’s a record breaker! 😮
Our #TDDSummerShowcase online event starts in less than TWO hours! Don't worry about those Friday plans. It's wet and windy outside. How about staying in with us, a cosy drink, and listening to some fabulous #Debut authors??
Limited tickets left!
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This Friday, the gals & I at @TheDebutDigest are holding a summer showcase where we’ll be chatting to 3 incredible debut authors and you can join us!
It’s via Zoom, 7pm and tickets are a fiver which includes a book sent out to you!
Sign up here: thedebutdigest.com/event-det… 📖
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It's the weekend that we've all been waiting for... The last #BookHoliday weekend of 2024, and we are taking advantage!
But don't be sad, it's the last one, we have a super exciting ONLINE event on the 6th of September that you can come along to!
Link in bio - free book Inc.
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We're back with another event THIS September!
Team DD will be in convo with 3 #Debut guests, which include Madeline Docherty (#GenderTheory), @LucyJaneWood (#Rewitched)
& @AdamLeslie1974 (#LostInTheGarden)
Tickets are £5.13** + UK attendees get a proof!
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A feminist horror for those in their #weirdgirlbook era: The Eyes Are The Best Part by @monikakimwrites 👀🫣
For discussion of the festishization of Asian women, faux-feminist uni bros and balancing comedy with horror, read our full review here: thedebutdigest.com/post/revi…
ALT Image shows a book titled ‘the eyes are the best part’. The cover image is a cartoon mouth eating an eyeball - the eyeball staring out. The book is placed on a plate and Googly eyes surround it. On the edge of the frame, chopsticks are coming in as if to pick up a googly eye
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To celebrate #DisabilityPrideMonth we were thrilled to review Alter Ego, the debut novel by @lehenner 📖
Read it here: thedebutdigest.com/post/revi…
#BookReview #debut
ALT Image shows a pink book with yellow writing on the spine that reads ‘alter ego’, the book’s title. It is set against a backdrop of a yellow blanket and is sitting next to a mug with a rainbow pattern on it and a flower-shaped handle.
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Happy PRIDE!! 🏳️🌈
If you like your gays, Voyage of the Damned is a big gay magical murder mystery cruise where everyone is queer and our MC is the biggest bi-est disaster child.
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*Editing #Sunday*
A sneak peek into #TheDebutDigest's group chat, you saw it here first...
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