Honoured and delighted to produce this artwork to promote @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social this summer! So many spectacular events coming up! Always a pleasure working with @sharoncanavar.bsky.social 🙏

#TheakstonsCrime 2025 full programme revealed with a host of thrills and spills guaranteed this July! Visit our brand new website and find our more 👉 bit.ly/TheakstonsCr... @johnmurrays.bsky.social @edpr.bsky.social 📷 Mike Whorley

UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Fantastic to welcome so many amazing literature festivals to the British Arts Festival Association. Looking forward to working with them to ensure that these vital cultural organisations are supported. www.thebookseller.com/news/nine-bo...

The family business has created a ‘letters to heaven’ postbox here in Harrogate. More info here: www.yourharrogate.co.uk/local-news/h...

@harrogatefestivals.bsky.social delivering in all weathers.

Meet your heroes at HIF!

🚨Breaking news! We reveal a criminally good Special Guest lineup for #theakstonscrime 2025🕵️ We’ll celebrate global icons, TV talent & fan favourites as we announce our star-studded Special Guests. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/TOPCWFNewsSG25

The Festivals’ Chief Executive @sharoncanavar.bsky.social welcomes our Sunday Series audience back for 2025 - a series of wonderful artists and a room full of wonderful smiling faces!

Harrogate really is the home of crime - no, not the fest but the gurus @yorkshiretea.bsky.social Watch it immediately! lbbonline.com/news/yorkshi...

Great read: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

This is indeed up! Me plus @valmcdermid.bsky.social on the BBC’s Take Four Books. Merry almost Christmas (from a surprisingly chilly room in the National Library of Scotland :) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

With thanks to the Yorkshire Times for the opportunity to bang the drum for longer term funding and planning as a potential Christmas miracle! yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Chri...

What’s the bloke equivalent of Oliver Bonas so you can just walk round together and he can point out all the stuff he’d like for Christmas?!

Starting to think about 25? I love Berwins Salon North for intel and info. Lots coming up in Feb next year with Oliver Burkeman teaching us Meditations for Mortals, Dr Alex Box blending beauty and tech + Professor Louise Mullany discussing the power of politeness. Loads to get your teeth into!

Our editing skills are unmatched.

Food tech for G today. Realised as I got to work that I look like a coke fiend given the volume of flour down my front.

Very pleased to be a part of the @dailyexpress.bsky.social books of 2024 list, along with some of the biggest names in writing: not often I find myself next to Sir Ian Rankin, Mick Herron & Mary Beard! Hit the link to see all of our choices and please share. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1986...

Used to love watching Theatre Twitter play out, wishing fests had the same. Book twitter seems to have found a new home too.

@mattbrewster.bsky.social dude, you’re here!

Look at this gorgeous ornament that includes the @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social Spiegeltent - purchased immediately!

The changes for the night time economy and events are huge.

London bound for #TheakstonsCrime planning - who is in our book of authors for 2025….who will be on stage?? #tensionbuildingpost @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social

When the stats don't lie.

Slipped over on the dog walk today. Whilst very embarrassed of my newly achieved splits....it did cross my mind that I could be falling into the age territory of having 'had a fall'.

This is an interesting read re the future of lit festivals, sponsorship & the precarious ecology, not least the competition of commercial touring. Just come out of a board meeting but have many thoughts to pick up on this area @the-bookseller.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/news/wimbled...?

Just reading all the submissions for #TheakstonsCrime. This year is going to be a corker!

With thanks to weedmylips1 on Reddit for these, as I was missing trending options: "Catch Up" - Most popular posts from the last 24 hrs bsky.app/profile/skyf... Top 30 posts in last 3 hrs bsky.app/profile/0x0.... Discover - Trending content from your network - bsky.app/profile/bsky...

Absolutely love stories like this, went to read and delighted to see one of them is Mark who I was at uni with ❤️

A snowy day means the North Pole Post Office in Harrogate will be looking very festive today! Obviously, I haven’t seen this myself as am hiding under 5 blankets 🥶

Husband just advised he wore a t shirt under his shirt today as it is so cold….he felt just like Sam Seaborn apparently 😂

Just dropped my phone in the loo. How’s your day going?

Ahem…*clears throat* We’re here!!

This was a job for today but someone has beaten me to it! Thanks a mill 🙌

Great to introduce and hear @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social at the BAFA conference @bristolbeacon.bsky.social today. Wise and encouraging words.

In the Indie too! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/val-...

Great to hear more of the background and plans for #Bradford2025 from Jenny Harris at #bafa24 What an opportunity for the district and the north.

An incredibly valuable piece of research has been published today by the British Arts Festival Assoc. It is absolutely key that the sector is recognised & supported appropriately. With huge thanks to @valmcdermid.bsky.social for lending her voice to the work www.artsfestivals.co.uk/festivals-me...

On my way to Bristol for the British Arts Fest conference. Using the world’s longest train journey to explore this place, and try to find everyone I used to follow on the old place!

The wonderful Mick Herron has been announced as Chair of the 2025 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. It’s going to be brilliant! harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/news/slow-ho...