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Literary agent. Always looking for something interesting. www.katebarker.net.
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I Am In Print
1 day ago
Are you writing an unputdownable
#thriller
? Then it's time to put it down, book an
#agent121
and see what a
#litagent
thinks! 28 Apr
@katebarker.bsky.social
28 Apr
@litagentfran.bsky.social
29 Apr Nicky Lovick 30 Apr Clare Coombes Book:
www.iaminprint.co.uk
#thrillerfiction
#amwritingthriller
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ALCS
24 days ago
This week over 100,000 ALCS members will receive their share of £34m. Let's celebrate the value of human creativity, something that isn't going anywhere 💡📖🌳
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Duncan Weldon
about 1 month ago
Mini thread. I have, for book research purposes, devoted quite a bit time to thinking about this sort of thing over the last few years.
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Duncan Weldon
about 1 month ago
Today at 16.00 on Radio 4. And then available as a podcast afterwards .
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Tom Reagan’s Hat
about 1 month ago
‘It’s International Women’s Day. Why aren’t you smiling?’
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about 1 month ago
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Duncan Weldon
about 1 month ago
Rough rule of thumb: 10% *sustained* oil price rise adds about 0.4/0.5% to inflation and reduces GDP growth by around 0.1/0.2%
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Ed Newton-Rex
about 1 month ago
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4
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Tammy Salyer
about 2 months ago
#writerslife
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Dane Pavitt 🦕🌍
3 months ago
So WeTransfer, which has been my go-to large file sharing service for over a decade, has decided they now own what you upload & can use it to train AI. Anyone know of any good alternatives?
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I hope HarperCollins haven't gone to print with the paperback of Andrew Lownie's book yet.
about 2 months ago
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Stephen Kinsella
about 2 months ago
Donald Trump's birthday is 14 June. Just saying.
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Prof Christina Pagel
about 2 months ago
ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult). I got my MMR about 10 years ago!
www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
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I thought Wuthering Heights was great. Looks incredible, good soundtrack, hot lead actors, sometimes really funny. All the drama. Who cares if it’s not like the book.
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Robin Ince
2 months ago
Possibly 7th richest person in the UK but I think the point still stands
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Duncan Weldon
2 months ago
Delighted to have a Blood and Treasure extract in Foreign Policy today.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/06/b...
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How the British Empire Chose Canada Over Guadeloupe
London won the spoils of war from France—and lost the United States.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/06/british-empire-france-americas-history/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921
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Bruce Springsteen
3 months ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si=7ciYwNLv34RrdD1p
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Duncan Weldon
3 months ago
Someone should do a daily podcast this May on the General Strike one century on. 15 min episodes 4th to 12th May. (I will happily write and present this podcast if some organisation wants to pay me).
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Sarah Owen MP
3 months ago
Arguably more significant than defections, internal party politics and the Beckhams… In 2024 there were around 3,600 suspected cases of measles. We need to challenge the nonsense spread by anti vaxxers and ensure children are protected.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK loses measles elimination status, warns WHO
Vaccination rates in 2024-25 among five-year-olds who had received both MMR jabs hit the lowest level in 15 years.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-loses-measles-elimination-status-warns-who-13499336
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Diedrich Bader
3 months ago
Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room
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Kathryn Sharman
3 months ago
THE SECOND HOME (May 28th - please pre-order🙏🏻). A second book, a body of work. I’m so grateful I can do this again and really hope people enjoy this one. P.S. it’s set during an August bank holiday heatwave — a reminder that warmer, brighter days are coming!!! ☀️
#psychologicalthriller
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Airport book brain! This is very good. Though I'd argue that we are suffering as much from podcast brain.
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3 months ago
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Hayes Brown
3 months ago
"All told, Mr. Trump has profited from his return to the presidency by an amount of money equal to 16,822 times the median U.S. household income."
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Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion (Gift Article)
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked_article_code=1.GFA.zsS-._h1fsV1U1W4E&smid=url-share
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Happy
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day, published authors! If you aren't registered, DO IT NOW for next year:
plr.bl.uk/login
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Public Lending Right
https://plr.bl.uk/login
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Fantastic news - go Harriet!
#TheTraitors
3 months ago
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Charlotte Nichols MP
3 months ago
There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
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Sarah Owen MP
3 months ago
X/grok creating and platforming sexually explicit material of children isn’t just a lapse, it’s criminal. Elon Musk and his companies should be held to account. It’s been over a year since I dumped X. It was the right decision then and even more so now.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Grok Posts Sexual Images of Minors After ‘Lapses in Safeguards’
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said “lapses in safeguards” led to the generation of sexualized images of minors that it posted to social media site X.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-02/grok-posts-sexual-images-of-minors-after-lapses-in-safeguards?embedded-checkout=true
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Rob Ford
3 months ago
If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.
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Gina Rippon
4 months ago
Thank you - I was way out of my comfort zone! Here you go with the sprouts image!
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A few pics of
@ginarippon.bsky.social
‘s highly entertaining talk on the neuroscience of Christmas with
@cosmicshambles.com
last night. Regret that I didn’t get a photo of the slide explaining why sprouts can be bad for the brain.
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Oh HarperCollins, what took you so long. New CEO?
4 months ago
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On ep 4 of Pluribus (which I really like). Is it about generative AI?
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The shortest day of the year is nearly here... great advice on beating the winter blues from psychologist Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Worried about winter? 10 ways to thrive – from socialising to Sad lamps to celebrating the new year in April
The temptation is to sit at home and hibernate, but beating the winter blues can be done. Here’s how to embrace the coldest and arguably most beautiful season
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/17/beat-winter-blues-advice-socialising-sad-lamps-celebrating-new-year-april
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Delighted for my brilliant client
@ginarippon.bsky.social
who has won the British Psychological Society award for Popular Science book of the year for The Lost Girls of Autism. Congratulations, Gina!
www.bps.org.uk/news/congrat...
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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s BPS Book Awards | BPS
The BPS is proud to announce the winners of our Book Awards 2025.
https://www.bps.org.uk/news/congratulations-winners-years-bps-book-awards
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Basic Books Group
4 months ago
“[An] excellent, state-of-the-art account of autism in girls." "Off the Spectrum" by
@ginarippon.bsky.social
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@newscientist.com
Book of the Year! Read more:
bit.ly/4pF8U59
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The 13 best popular science books of 2025
Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism – there's much to chew on in this year's best reads, says Liz Else
https://bit.ly/4pF8U59
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Adam Bienkov
5 months ago
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill Or about who bought his house in Frinton
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I Am In Print
5 months ago
Are you writing an unputdownable
#thriller
? Then it's time to put it down, book an
#agent121
and find out what a
#litagent
thinks! 9 Dec
@katebarker.bsky.social
11 Dec
@mariliasavvides.bsky.social
19 Dec
@amandapreston.bsky.social
Book:
www.iaminprint.co.uk
#amwriting
#thrillerbooks
#thrillers
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Duncan Weldon
5 months ago
You know what would be an excellent Christmas present?
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Great to hear Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald talking about her new book The Gifts of Winter on BBC All In the Mind with
@claudiahammond.bsky.social
- 17 mins in.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, Asylum hotels and mental health
Claudia discusses the evidence for the mental health impact of living in an asylum hotel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m035
5 months ago
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dag
5 months ago
NEW A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo...
(Substack) (Non-Substack link to follow.)
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A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-look-at-trumps-1-billion
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Robert Shrimsley
5 months ago
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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Anne Applebaum
5 months ago
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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It’s going to take ages to calm down, isn’t it.
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Ian Dunt
5 months ago
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487#
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Anand
6 months ago
statistically, about 24% of television adverts in the UK should feature at least one publicly disgraced member of Reform/UKIP
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Sophie Petzal
6 months ago
Celebrity Traitors
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