Wishing everyone a happy bank holiday weekend and, if possible, a short break from righteous anger and hate and the absolute certainty of being right.

Peak Twitter.

These two paragraphs changed everything for me – encountered them in Jonny Geller's Ted Talk on writing
youtube.com/watch?v=mD-uP2…

I’ve been thinking about the maxim “write what you know” and I’m beginning to feel the opposite may be true.

Write what you don’t know in order to discover what you do.

#WritingCommunity #writing

Huge congratulations to Alex Hay whose debut crime novel The Housekeepers has been chosen as Waterstones’s Thriller of the Month! We could not be more excited! ✨

We need this (and authors like Elif Shafak) more than ever. This is a wonderful short book with some real strategies...

And women …of Twitter.

Bravo to the marvellous ⁦David Nicholls⁩ for storming the UK bestseller list in the first week of publication to NUMBER ONE!!!
Congrats to his publishing team too - ⁦Federico AndornINo⁩ &all ⁦Sceptre Books⁩ ⁦Curtis Brown Books⁩

A novel is completed when the writer has exhausted every technique to avoid writing it.
#writingtips #WriterCommunity

A touching tribute to C J Sansom who sadly just died. A tremendous writer and influence on other writers. Doubly sad to think he will miss the launch of his long awaited Shardlake coming to television screens.

I love this clip of Orson Welles saying you can learn anything in half a day.
With the right teacher, I think I agree (not surgery obviously). Do you?
#creativity

This is the best take I’ve seen to explain why the campuses have erupted in the way they have.
Worth 5 mins of your time.
Not an argument about #Israel or #Gaza but how student communities have been decimated leading to less debate/nuance. Fareed Zakaria

Being creative is a wholly positive act.
#BeCreative

I'm beside myself with excitement to share that All Of Us Are Broken is a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.
This is my sixth book, and I can't tell you how important this moment is to me. Thank you to WHSmith, and to Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan for choosing it.

Who are you when you're forced to walk in #SomeoneElsesShoes ?

Happy paperback publication day to the feel-good and life-affirming new novel by Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes! ✨📚💐

Treat yourself this Spring: amazon.co.uk/Someone-Elses-…

A Game of Lies is NOW OUT in paperback! 😍

To celebrate even further, I’m so excited to share that it’s also been chosen as a WHSmith Richard & Judy Book Club pick! 💙

GOOD BAD GIRL is out in paperback in the UK today. Huge thanks to all the lovely readers who have bought a copy, I hope you enjoy it! 🖤🩷

Last chance to join our four-week online course: The Literary Agent – with Jonny Geller! 📣

Curtis Brown’s Jonny Geller explores the role of the agent in the author’s professional life & how to go about getting one. Curtis Brown Books

📆 Course starts tomorrow: curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/the-lit…