Emma Matthews
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Emma Matthews
@emma-matthews.bsky.social
📸 Creating beautiful product and lifestyle photography for the publishing industry✨📚 she/her

Find out more 👉 https://emmamatthews.co.uk
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📚 Happy publication day! We have a beautiful stakc of books ready to be explored. Has any taken your eye?

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November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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📚 Happy publication day to all of these fantastic books! What book are you going to read first? 👀

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January 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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'If you loved the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, then you will be obsessed with this' Cosmopolitan

Reese's Bookclub January 2025 Pick

🎉 Happy publication day to The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan!

Read more: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/three-liv...
January 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Happy Isabel Allende Day! 🖊️🌺

Every year, on the 8th January, Isabel begins to write a new book. We stan an organised literary queen!

Allende’s new novel My Name is Emilia del Valle is out in May 2025.
January 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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‘Hey there! I guess I should introduce myself. My name’s Soup. Order up!’

The Restaurant at the Edge of the World is out now 🧑‍🍳
January 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Looking for the perfect crime/thriller for the holidays? Here's our top thrilling reads that you won't be able to put down...

🎭 CURTAIN CALL TO MURDER
🔪 LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER
👮MIDNIGHT AND BLUE
🎄 MURDER UNDER THE MISTLETOE
🌊THE WAITING
December 6, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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What a year it's been 💛

A huge thank you to all the booksellers and readers who fell just as deeply in love with Patch and Saint as we did. Here's to 2024, and to even more to come for this incredibly special book in 2025! 🙌
December 12, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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I apologise in advance for all the paperback spam headed your way - I am just so thrilled with it - and these photos make me very happy. It’s out on 2nd January and I can’t wait! #booksky www.waterstones.com/book/the-lis...
December 16, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Have you got a difficult relative to buy for this Christmas? Then why not gift them all 5 of these Orion books!? I'm sure one of them will go down well. 🎁 🎄 🎅@orionbooks.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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Great chance for six artists based in the North to receive financial support, mentoring, coaching, observational placements, peer-to-peer learning and access to the Factory International creative team. Deadline 9th December.

Please share
Factory International Fellowship
Our Fellowship supports artists at a transitional stage in their career to stretch their practice in different directions
factoryinternational.org
November 25, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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Anyone seen any really good starter packs for #illustrators that they could point me in the direction of? I commission illustrators in my day job so it's always good to be connected with more of them. I'm feeling like that's something my timeline on here is currently lacking! #kidlituk #ukkidlit
November 18, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Sprayed edges, intricate foils, gilded endpaper—the industry is seeing an increased demand for books with a decorative "aesthetic" 👇 www.thebookseller.com/spotlight/sp...
Spredges effect: why books are becoming more beautiful
Sprayed edges, intricate foils, gilded endpaper—the industry is seeing an increased demand for books with a decorative "aesthetic".
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Emma’s the very best of the best, every marketer in publishing should be following her 👇👇👇
Hello Bluesky! 👋 I’m Emma. For the past 7 years, I’ve run a photography studio, creating beautiful images for the publishing industry.

I love books, have photographed thousands of them and am very bad at introductions. You can find out more at 👉 emmamatthews.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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Also, if you're looking for an entry-level Editorial role in publishing, based in Edinburgh, then boy do we have just the entry-level Editorial role in publishing based in Edinburgh for you!

Deadline 28 November, details including salary here:
canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/
Jobs at Canongate
Current vacancies at Canongate – the award-winning independent book publisher based in Edinburgh and London.
canongate.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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A quick shout-out for my Substack. I post occasionally—only when I have bigger-picture thinking or long-term insights to share, often about audience research, tech trends, and their impact on publishing and comms teams. Take a look here: convertculture.substack.com
Convert Culture | Caroline Butler | Substack
Sign up to my substack newsletter. Click to read Convert Culture, by Caroline Butler, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.
convertculture.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Hello Bluesky! 👋 I’m Emma. For the past 7 years, I’ve run a photography studio, creating beautiful images for the publishing industry.

I love books, have photographed thousands of them and am very bad at introductions. You can find out more at 👉 emmamatthews.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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Hello Blue Sky! Happy to be joining you here. We love to talk about all things books here - come say hello!
November 18, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Looking for book bloggers? Here’s a few to get you started. I’m adding daily until I reach the limit. Love you guys 📚📚📚

go.bsky.app/51R9z8T
November 18, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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looking to connect with #publishing / #bookworkers of all kinds, but especially my #bookmarketing and #bookpr peers — and super especially my #scottish ones! 📚💙
November 16, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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#bookbloggers of Bluesky, I have a database you can sign up for!

I work on a real mix of titles & I'm always on the lookout for bloggers to receive proofs, special packs & to help with secret squirrel reveals. ✨

UK only, sign up here: forms.gle/hYkfpoUdgBmw...
a black cat wearing glasses is laying on an open book on a table
ALT: a black cat wearing glasses is laying on an open book on a table
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November 16, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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Hello, hi.

I’ve made an inexhaustive starter pack of the bookish people I’ve found here so far 📚

go.bsky.app/EeTCv2s
November 16, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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If you’re looking to follow more UK publishing people, @carolineonline.bsky.social has pulled together an excellent starter pack! 👉 go.bsky.app/G7Lbbv2
November 16, 2024 at 10:42 AM