'Some of the greatest moments in my career have been launching debut novels' 📖 @jonnygeller.bsky.social (literary agent & CEO of Curtis Brown) on his career highlights, advice for querying authors and what it was like creating our four-week online course: The Literary Agent – with Jonny Geller.

"Good writing is not a regeneration of other people’s material." A great post from literary agent Jonny Geller: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote a piece in today’s @theguardian.com about how authors and readers can protect our culture and creative industries from threat of AI. #AI #publishing #authors www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kurt Vonnegut’s #writingtips are, to my mind, the best in the internet. #writing

Big news at the agency! Hugely proud to welcome the JRR Tolkien Estate. #Tolkien

Jonathan Freedland’s fantastic new book out next month. The Escape Artist was a brilliant story of humanity’s darkest chapter and The Traitors Circle tells the story of those who dared to stand up to tyranny. Topical? #Newbooks @johnmurrays.bsky.social

As true for life as it is for #writing.

My favourite author story.

Perfect joke. #Epstein #conspiracy #trump #joke

Bravo to two wonderful people l, writers and books!

Bravo @hugorifkind.bsky.social for putting this #glastonbury mess so well. It’s fine to talk about Gaza, the question is how www.thetimes.com/article/4604...

Bravo to Lisa Jewell for hitting no.1 spot in New York Times bestseller list on first week of publication of her terrifying new thriller, Don’t Let Him In. #thrillers #bestsellers #NYT

Last chance to join our four-week online course: The Literary Agent – with Jonny Geller! Renowned literary agent and CEO of Curtis Brown Agency, @jonnygeller.bsky.social, explores the role of the agent in the author’s professional life & how to go about getting one. 📆 Course starts tomorrow:

Readers do not want to be told what to think or feel. Readers need to want to turn the page otherwise all else is lost. Readers want to learn and feel, not feel scolded or patronised. Readers want to live in someone else's shoes so they can fit into theirs more easily. #writerstips #writerscommunity

Dave Rich posted this on his Substack #glastonbury substack.com/@everydayhat...

Audiobooks are booming. Why do publishers insist on holding on to low royalties for authors in a format that costs nothing to distribute, hardly anything to produce and have no returns? #publishing #audiobooks

#RIPBrianWilson A true original and made you listen to music in a new way. #BeachBoys

Sad news about the great Frederick Forsyth’s passing today. A legendary writer and part of Curtis Brown for many years.

The principled ex leader of Libdems and exec at Meta, Nick Clegg, arguing that if AI companies have stolen something already it’s unconscionable to try to stop them from stealing more. #AI #copyright #publishing

Great launch for Ruth Jones’ fab new novel, By Your Side.

Three slightly different books published today! Congratulations Ruth, Nick and Bono!

Wonderful to see three of our great authors recognised in the important Indie Book Awards shortlist! Bravo, Elif, Tracy and Kevin. #indiebookawards #books

James Graham has made a lovely short film for National Theatre to mark #VEDay80. Very moving and uplifting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uolb...

S J Parris’s new book “Traitor’s Legacy” is also heading out today. A beautiful fancy spredge on this one. - Michael

Out of £120bn revenue generated in UK each year from the creative industries, film/tv accounts for over £21bn (17%) and this attack on our industry must be fought. We make the films America wants to see - from Wicked to Gladiator 2, Fantastic Four to Wuthering Heights, our Expertise is world class.

“These are days of many emotions. Uppermost…is that of thankfulness that the long ordeal..is over, & that the sins of blindness and indolence & complacency that encouraged the aggressor-sins from whose taint none is free-are purged at last.” Powerful words on #VEday 80 years ago in the Economist.

Get the inside track on how to get a literary agent on our four week course: The Literary Agent – with Jonny Geller! Renowned literary agent and CEO of Curtis Brown @jonnygeller.bsky.social explores the role of the agent & how to go about getting one. Course starts 15 May:

30 years ago today, I sold my first novel as a literary agent at Curtis Brown. Still at it and still love it! #literaryagents #publishing

Interesting poll on which stars matter to people in terms of going to movie theatres. Skews very heavily toward older male stars and not many younger stars or women. puck.news/the-actors-g...

Cant believe I did this Ted talk 9 years ago! I believe the the basic rules still apply. Do you? #publishing #writing #writingcommunity #literaryagents #books www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD-u...

Fiction sales for the year in UK are approaching £149m spread across 17m books (+8% and +3%, respectively, vs 2024), still the highest year-to-date value on record and the highest volume since 2011. People need stories to understand the world!

Visiting my favourite bookshop in Palma whilst enjoying the incredible spectacle of Sant Jordi- the day when all booksellers sell on the streets. #booksellers #reading #santjordi

Some observations on working with #writers for 30 years: -it takes a huge amount of effort to write effortless prose -it takes a long time & lots of failure to get lucky -those who have had success learn how to survive success by writing through it -writing isn’t a choice #publishing #writing

Albert Einstein died 70 years ago today. This was his desk at time of his death.

Brilliant piece about the meaning of Trump by Yuval Noah Harari. “War is therefore always the fault of the weak.” on.ft.com/42FGKgB

I’d say 30 for novels… #literaryagents #publishing #writing

One of the great privileges of being a #literaryagent is you get to be the first reader of new work by great #writers. Today- William Boyd’s new novel, out later this year and follow up to Gabriel’s Moon.

So pleased to see Giant pick up some Oliviers. Great performances but also a challenging play that was also entertaining. Recommend!

The Studio is most entertaining show on at the moment. Escape the tariffs…

This what I call an effective protest- Shares of the company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, fell $52 to $531.62 on Thursday and were down again on Friday. In total, Meta shed a whopping 9 percent of its market capitalization on Thursday. #AI #copyright

'When I’m on the hunt for exciting debuts, I’m looking for a story that acts as a bridge – taking me on a journey from somewhere familiar to somewhere new' ✨ – @litagent.bsky.social Jonny Geller, CEO of The Curtis Brown Group, shares five ways of approaching your elevator pitch:

The Economist Leader doesn’t pull its punches. #Trump #Tariffs

A true modern day hero. Featured, rightly, at the centre of Ben MacIntyre’s brilliant book, The Siege.

Congrats to Elif Shafak and Chris Whitaker for being picked by @waterstones.bsky.social as their book of the month and thriller of the month! Buy now!

Having had the honour of representing John le Carré, Ian Fleming , Ben MacIntyre and William Boyd - the great spy writers of last 60 years - I am concerned that spying in 2020s has come down to just checking your texts. #spy #texts

I fully endorse this statement by Agents Association, co-signed by Publishers Assoc, Society of Authors and ALCS about the concerns we all have as an industry about the LibGen database of pirated books. #publishing #AI #copyright #literaryagents @cbcreative.bsky.social #authors

For those of you interested in writing, I interviewed Lisa Jewell about how she writes her best-selling twisty thrillers without knowing the plot beforehand. Or even having any idea where she's headed. jojomoyes.substack.com/p/i-need-my-...

The three greatest heavyweights have left us now. I grew up obsessed with Great Fights of the 70s and the Rumble in the Jungle still remains the greatest fight of the era. #RIPGeorgeForeman

The question I get asked the most as a #literaryagent: “How do you know when to believe the rejections?” My response: Rejection is external; creativity is internal. Believe in your power to create and rejection will turn to acceptance but only if you are resilient, obsessed & detached. #writing

Ask ChatGPT how to stop big Tech stealing #authors’ copyright to feed ChatGPT. #AI #Meta #copyright