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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Literature festivals, please consider me for your interviewer/chair/moderator needs! You can in get in touch via [email protected] 💌
+ 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!!!!
We had the best audience, the team were fantastic and I loved hearing more from these debut authors about their hit fantasy novels!
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
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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.