After a heart-wrenching few days spent breaking the news to the AMAZING team at @wnbooks and my wonderful authors, I can officially say:
SOME. NEWS.
I am very excited to join @SceptreBooks next year.
Mum just called from Italy: every radio in the country played the same three songs at 11am to cheer people up (greatest Italian hits like VOLARE). My parents - very reserved people - were blasting it full force from their windows ❤️🇮🇹❤️
Fellow editors, how do you recover from the disappointment of losing out on a book you loved? And how do you muster the energy to open another and start from scratch? I don’t know if it’s the pandemic or this specific book (or both) but it sucks.
(And yes: I’ve opened the wine)
This is so not my award but it gives you a good idea of how the night is going.
Beyond thrilled for Meg Mason and #SorrowAndBliss, winner of the Fiction Book of the Year at the #Nibbies
☔️☀️☔️☀️☔️☀️☔️☀️☔️
Ten years ago (almost to the day) I started my @HachetteUK journey with the inimitable @mslisahighton.
Celebrating today by starting a new job as Executive Publisher @SceptreBooks. You’ll hear from me soon - if and when my new email address starts working…
Buying this book almost broke me (and I’m sure @Nelle_Andrew can relate) but OH MY GOD was it worth it.
I’m telling you now: @Sarah_L_Brooks is going to be your new favourite author. Looking forward to welcoming you aboard THE CAUTIOUS TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO THE WASTELANDS soon…
Well last night was A NIGHT.
Bursting with pride for the amazing @ClareDChambers who is finally getting the recognition she deserves. Hers really was the Pageturner of the Year. And massive hurrahs for total phenomenon Meg Mason, who won for Fiction Book of the Year #Nibbies
We are proud to be @david_mitchell’s publishers here at @SceptreBooks and we had A LOT of fun putting together this stunner of a 20th anniversary edition of CLOUD ATLAS.
With a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin and a new afterword by David himself.
lnk.to/CloudAtlas20
Please enjoy a deranged picture of yours truly, holding a copy of @thebookseller’s announcement of the STAR of LBF 2023: @ka_bradley’s THE MINISTRY OF TIME is coming and you are so not ready for how brilliant it is.
June 2024 @SceptreBooks
@ChrisWellbelove @AitkenAlexander