Last December I had a semi-formed book plan that @eliarieh.bsky.social helped shape into something so much better. Today? A deal, 70% of my manuscript drafted, cover design proposals, and a TBC release date. The grey under my eyes is worth it. 2025 was decent to me. I couldn't have done it alone 🙏🏻

Tried to come here as a twitter refugee but I’m just not being very active here am I? I’m on instagram but I’m not very active there either. Maybe I just… don’t really want to be on social media? If anyone wants me it’s not hard to find my email…

Me absolutely putting the world to rights at the Cambridge University Forum on GenAI and the Novel back in June. With thanks to Dr Clementine Collett for organising! Picture (c) Judith Weik

Go look at a cow

Very exciting to be featured in the July/August edition of @writersdigest.bsky.social! Many thanks to @karauhl.bsky.social for the write up

Every morning my alert goes off and every morning I ask my wife if she’s done her little jobs that she relies on me to remind her to do and every morning

My son’s most beloved cow is slowly falling apart and I don’t have the heart to throw away the pieces

Bees!

Every time my wife takes a day off work something happens to ruin it. She tries to drive somewhere nice? The car breaks down. A nice day at home? The toddler is sick. Today my wife is off work and, because apparently we didn’t get the message the other times, BEE TORNADO

Not one but two of my clients in the window display at Foyles Stratford!

At Foyles for the paperback launch of The Diaries of Mr Lucas! The first time I’ve actually held one of the famous diaries myself, it’s quite moving just to finally see them 🏳️‍🌈

Spilled quite a lot of 7up on the passenger seat of my car last night. Need to let the car properly dry out and it’s a lovely dry day for it but I can’t just leave my car with all the doors open so this morning I am WFC.

Beard greying very elegantly

It’s not often a piece of publishing really takes my breath away but this is beautiful

Signed a very, very exciting client this week! 🤐

#training 👉 Meet our speakers! @eliarieh.bsky.social 📚 Book Writing Workshop The session includes a Q&A with publishers and agents, who will also provide feedback on participants' pitches, plus a networking opportunity to connect with industry professionals. zurl.co/YAyDX

Spotted at the fair!

Spotted at the fair!

I’m a very proud agent!

At the Nero Book Awards with @adamsleslie.bsky.social no biggie

The CRA are standing with all creators and performers, sending a clear message to UK Government; Make it Fair - stop siding with big tech and ensure that creators are fairly rewarded when their work is used to train AI. #makeitfair #PaytheCreator. Read more: www.creatorsrightsalliance.org

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity. Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright. Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

The Government is siding with Big Tech over creators + as a member of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition, today we support the #MakeItFair campaign TODAY is the final chance to respond to the Gov consultation on copyright + AI + make your voice heard! writersguild.org.uk/fight-back-a...

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

The Guardian has today joined the creative industries in a nationwide campaign to highlight the risks around content being given away for free to AI firms. You can read more about how to get involved here: newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/

Eliza Mace is published in paperback one week today! ICYMI last time, you can catch up with this brilliant Victorian detective novel and join Eliza as she searches for the truth about her missing father, uncovering dark secrets that threaten to tear her world apart…

Can’t resist a bit of client spotting when I’m in a bookshop

Newest project finished, a gift for a friend’s newborn. Possibly my best yet! Really feel like I improve a little with every project I make 🧶 Crochet pattern from Nicole Chase

Lovely Guardian interview with Nero Book Awards winner @adamsleslie.bsky.social: ‘I’ve never had much interest in boring, everyday life’. A lovely read! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Got my hands on a proof of the next big non-fiction from Marieke Bigg - No Such Thing As Normal, a staggering critique of an industry that doesn’t work for us and hasn’t for a long time. Out in May from @profilebooks.bsky.social!

Halfway through watching Alien Romulus. Cat sneezed. Thought I was going to fucking die.

He did it! Lost in the Garden by @adamsleslie.bsky.social has won the Nero Book Award for Fiction! Congratulations to Adam, the team at @deadinkbooks.bsky.social, and agent @eliarieh.bsky.social

Lost in the Garden by my client @adamsleslie.bsky.social has won the Nero Book Award for Fiction! Couldn't be happier for Adam and the team at @deadinkbooks.bsky.social! So glad this weird, unsettling book is getting the recognition is deserves.

What I served my toddler: Lemon and sage turkey with pork and cranberry stuffing Pigs in blankets Roast potatoes Roast carrots with orange and thyme Shredded Brussels sprouts and buttered leeks What he ate: Half a potato and a piece of toast with a bit of cranberry sauce on it

Man got me again

Personal goal achieved. 10k on the treadmill every day for 5 days running!

Toddler life. I just lay back on my pillow exhausted after a long day to feel something hard dig me in the neck. Reached into my pillow case and found these. Man stashed an entire family in there 🐑

Doing a christmas

My Spotify wrapped is a mess this year because I discovered Chappell Roan in October and she had such a GRIP on me that my profile for the last three months looks like just a different person

Have known about this for a while, but it’s real good to see it out in the world!

Over the moon to share the news - Adam Leslie’s Lost in the Garden is shortlisted for the Nero Book Award for fiction! So good to see this book getting the recognition it deserves! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social

Bluey is in town today and for those who don’t know this is basically toddler Beyoncé

ALCS members, don't forget to add your articles and magazine contributions to your account before midnight this Saturday (30 Nov) to ensure you're paid for them. More info: www.alcs.co.uk/how-it-works...

My son has pulled his first ever pokemon cards. The great work (indoctrinating him into my hobbies) begins!

I reckon it's about time we showed some love to all the book publishers and publishing people who fill our TBRs and introduce us to new authors 💙📚 Suggestions for this pack welcome! 🫶 #BookSky go.bsky.app/BAJ3bag

And another one! Today I’m a voice for the UK’s agents with the Alliance for IP hosted by DACS, discussing how best to get our combined message across in parliament and beyond. Good to be here representing agents. Like an agent for agents. An agent agent. Agent².

A real privilege to represent the Association of Authors’ Agents at the Creators’ Rights Alliance AGM, working across the creative industries to protect creators’ rights and incomes. With thanks to the SoA for hosting! @societyofauthors.bsky.social

Although I love reading, I enjoy listening to audiobooks, particularly on #dialysis. My current audiobook is “The Diaries of Mr Lucas” by Hugo Greenhalgh. A vivid one-of-a-kind vision of the world from the eyes of a gay man in London. Highly recommended. h/t @liamsims.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/496C6i5