Portobello Literary
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Literary agency based in Edinburgh.
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https://linktr.ee/portobelloliterary 05-10-2021 10:06:45
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And now a brilliant thread from Anna Frame with a breakdown of the cost of author events and how difficult the publishing landscape has become:
‘I am a little outside my body, tethered only lightly to it. When I move bits of it, it is like moving a puppet.’
Polly Atkin's book is a striking piece of activism, & one of the best pieces on chronic illness that I have ever read. Polly Atkin #Disability #ChronicIllness
Hey lovelies, my first UK event for #HowWeNamedTheStars is now live. 💞
Bringing my debut of first love and first loss to Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop' First Date: Edinburgh's Romance Festival at Summerhall.
You can grab a copy of my novel a whole 3 weeks early!
lighthousebookshop.com/events/beyond-…
🚨 Attention authors, illustrators & translators - you have FOUR hours left to register your proxy vote for the upcoming Society of Authors EGM on May 2nd.
🚨 Deadline is 5pm for those registered to vote at the EGM. Check your emails or DM Fossil Free Books if you have any queries.
We are so pleased to hear that Alycia Pirmohamed, whose poetry collection Another Way to Split Water we published in 2022, has been selected to take part in the new City of Literature Writer's Room programme. 🎉
Read more:
cityofliterature.com/writers-room-p…
A bit of news. I am delighted to be chatting to Seán Hewitt, Mary Jean Chan & Josie Giles at their International Literature Festival Dublin 'Seeking Selves' event next month!
ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festi…
For #InternationalDayoftheDandelion a little story about the jacket design of Unnamed Press US/Canada edition of #SomeOfUsJustFall .
The concept was around the fragility of dried flowers - how they are beautiful and give us joy - but how they need support and care to survive.
What a truly delightful book! Loved reading Paula Sutton’s debut cosy crime The Potting Shed Murder, out from Dialogue Publishing. The setting was perfect and the intrigue full of twists and turns. Thank you for the proof Emily Moran ❤️📚💫
Friday afternoon rumours abound that #SomeOfUsJustFall has just dropped in paperback (or kerplunked onto the bookshop floor)... samreadbooks.co.uk/product/polly-…
The lovely folk Festival of Nature have published a new page on #access & #disability with a list of events accessible #online - join me in May &/or take a look at what else the have on offer:
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bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-na…
I took this of Jackie Kay & the The Portobello Bookshop team and am so pleased with it that I think I'll give up the day job (which is also an evening & weekend job 🥱) as am clearly a V Talented Photographer. (And The Portobello Bookshop may have a very good 📸which I may have used for this... )
Less than a week till the Some Of Us Just Fall paperback is out in the UK. Catch her in your local bookshop or get signed copies from my local Sam Read Bookseller (and catch the green era hardback while you can)!
#Nonfiction #Memoir #NatureWriting #DisLit #DisabledWriters #SOUJF
Cheerio Edinburgh! Thanks for a great uplifting night last night The Portobello Bookshop and Camilla Elworthy. It was a big-hearted bunch of people.
And good to have a blether with the lovely Andrés N. Ordorica . Fun dressing to rhyme with my cover too!
