Hattie Grunewald
@hatteatime.bsky.social
Literary Agent at The Blair Partnership
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Right! I've been promising a #mswl for too long, it's time to put my money where my mouth is.
I am very wary of my five-year-old stepdaughter. Am I a bad person? | Leading questions www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
If you don't want children, you should not become a step parent. However much you love your partner, if they come with kids you don't want, they are wrong for you.
If you don't want children, you should not become a step parent. However much you love your partner, if they come with kids you don't want, they are wrong for you.
I am very wary of my five-year-old stepdaughter. Am I a bad person? | Leading questions
It’s fine to have mixed feelings about being a step-parent, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But what you do with those feelings might not be
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I am very wary of my five-year-old stepdaughter. Am I a bad person? | Leading questions www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
If you don't want children, you should not become a step parent. However much you love your partner, if they come with kids you don't want, they are wrong for you.
If you don't want children, you should not become a step parent. However much you love your partner, if they come with kids you don't want, they are wrong for you.
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Our FIFTH Substack is now live! This highly informative piece is not one to miss! 🥰🥳
read it here: thenotsosecretagents.substack.com/p/how-to-fin...
read it here: thenotsosecretagents.substack.com/p/how-to-fin...
June 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Our FIFTH Substack is now live! This highly informative piece is not one to miss! 🥰🥳
read it here: thenotsosecretagents.substack.com/p/how-to-fin...
read it here: thenotsosecretagents.substack.com/p/how-to-fin...
Stop calling everything a one pan recipe! It's not one pan if I need to cook rice and a vegetable separately to make it a full meal!
May 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Stop calling everything a one pan recipe! It's not one pan if I need to cook rice and a vegetable separately to make it a full meal!
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I'm setting off for Cambridge this week, going to spend a couple of days in some archives for my new project, then off to the University Press bookshop on Thursday evening to talk about Literature for the People! A few seats left? Where are you, Cambridge #booksky People?
February 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I'm setting off for Cambridge this week, going to spend a couple of days in some archives for my new project, then off to the University Press bookshop on Thursday evening to talk about Literature for the People! A few seats left? Where are you, Cambridge #booksky People?
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I want a love story with a long timespan - lovers coming together against all odds, fated romance, something that keeps me hoping until the very last page #mswl
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I want a love story with a long timespan - lovers coming together against all odds, fated romance, something that keeps me hoping until the very last page #mswl
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Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features
This is "#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features" by The Manuscript Academy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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February 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
On the hunt for #darkacademia novels, particularly those that are a bit more upmarket and less magical - The Secret History vibes. If you have a crime novel set in a university, boarding school, library - it might be for me. #mswl
February 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
On the hunt for #darkacademia novels, particularly those that are a bit more upmarket and less magical - The Secret History vibes. If you have a crime novel set in a university, boarding school, library - it might be for me. #mswl
boosting this for @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social #mswl day! I will post a few other specific wants throughout the day and you can find more info here:
www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-age...
with our submission guidelines here:
www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-sub...
www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-age...
with our submission guidelines here:
www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-sub...
February 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
boosting this for @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social #mswl day! I will post a few other specific wants throughout the day and you can find more info here:
www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-age...
with our submission guidelines here:
www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-sub...
www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-age...
with our submission guidelines here:
www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-sub...
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I live a perfectly commutable distance from central London. I had to get there before 9 for a job recently, train being the only option.
It cost me £100.
It cost me £100.
Working from home risks 'hollowing out' London - Sir Sadiq Khan
Working from home risks 'hollowing out' London - Sir Sadiq Khan
London's mayor outlined concerns about the decline in office working while speaking at an event.
www.bbc.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I live a perfectly commutable distance from central London. I had to get there before 9 for a job recently, train being the only option.
It cost me £100.
It cost me £100.
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I just said to a friend I feel like human authors will end up like organic veg in the next few years.
A few will pay more for something ethically sourced, environmentally friendly, that didn’t kill bees and that still contains the human spirit.
A few will pay more for something ethically sourced, environmentally friendly, that didn’t kill bees and that still contains the human spirit.
February 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I just said to a friend I feel like human authors will end up like organic veg in the next few years.
A few will pay more for something ethically sourced, environmentally friendly, that didn’t kill bees and that still contains the human spirit.
A few will pay more for something ethically sourced, environmentally friendly, that didn’t kill bees and that still contains the human spirit.
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They’re putting my bill up by £19 a MONTH and you can’t shop around for water companies so we just have to lump it. Nationalise now!!!
High Court hearing today on Thames Water plan to borrow another £3bn.
Already has £17bn debt, mostly to fund dividends, wants 53% price hike.
Nearly a third of customer bill covers interest payments. More debt= higher bills.
Let it go bankrupt. Nationalise at nominal price.
Already has £17bn debt, mostly to fund dividends, wants 53% price hike.
Nearly a third of customer bill covers interest payments. More debt= higher bills.
Let it go bankrupt. Nationalise at nominal price.
Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash
Thames Water is hoping to secure an emergency cash injection or face runing out of money in weeks.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
They’re putting my bill up by £19 a MONTH and you can’t shop around for water companies so we just have to lump it. Nationalise now!!!
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If we're talking about blurbing books again, can we agree that some people blurb only books they like, regardless of whether they know the author?
The assumption that it's all just backscratching is pretty dismissive of the people who try to do this unpaid labour with some integrity, imho.
The assumption that it's all just backscratching is pretty dismissive of the people who try to do this unpaid labour with some integrity, imho.
January 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If we're talking about blurbing books again, can we agree that some people blurb only books they like, regardless of whether they know the author?
The assumption that it's all just backscratching is pretty dismissive of the people who try to do this unpaid labour with some integrity, imho.
The assumption that it's all just backscratching is pretty dismissive of the people who try to do this unpaid labour with some integrity, imho.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. #1616:
In a world in which the average writer earns only £7000 a year, be sure why you want to do this. If it's to make a fortune, or hang out with famous people, or to be famous yourself, forget it. It isn't a lottery. It's a slog. Only joy makes it worthwhile.
In a world in which the average writer earns only £7000 a year, be sure why you want to do this. If it's to make a fortune, or hang out with famous people, or to be famous yourself, forget it. It isn't a lottery. It's a slog. Only joy makes it worthwhile.
January 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #1616:
In a world in which the average writer earns only £7000 a year, be sure why you want to do this. If it's to make a fortune, or hang out with famous people, or to be famous yourself, forget it. It isn't a lottery. It's a slog. Only joy makes it worthwhile.
In a world in which the average writer earns only £7000 a year, be sure why you want to do this. If it's to make a fortune, or hang out with famous people, or to be famous yourself, forget it. It isn't a lottery. It's a slog. Only joy makes it worthwhile.
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what's particularly bonkers is the sheer expense, political effort, complicated negotiations and pain for exporters - for a result which the public have now largely disowned
only one in five LEAVE voters think that Brexit has been more of a success than a failure, that is nuts
January 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
what's particularly bonkers is the sheer expense, political effort, complicated negotiations and pain for exporters - for a result which the public have now largely disowned
My tiktok fyp is wall to wall Robbie Williams and Alexander from Traitors 😭 I did this to myself
January 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
My tiktok fyp is wall to wall Robbie Williams and Alexander from Traitors 😭 I did this to myself
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The thing that gets me about AI is if you want to get an answer to something that is sometimes right and sometimes bizarre or simply disastrously wrong, you can just ask me. That’s how I answer questions
January 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The thing that gets me about AI is if you want to get an answer to something that is sometimes right and sometimes bizarre or simply disastrously wrong, you can just ask me. That’s how I answer questions
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How wonderful to see not one but TWO of our fabulous authors as judges for the #Nibbies! We are so proud of both @leenanorms.bsky.social and RAMZEE 🥰
INTRODUCING your #Nibbies judges✨
The #BritishBookAward judges "bring to our 35th year an eye-watering level of authority, skill and expertise. These are voracious readers with an extraordinary breadth of knowledge, who love the world of books and the people who make them." #BookSky
The #BritishBookAward judges "bring to our 35th year an eye-watering level of authority, skill and expertise. These are voracious readers with an extraordinary breadth of knowledge, who love the world of books and the people who make them." #BookSky
January 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
How wonderful to see not one but TWO of our fabulous authors as judges for the #Nibbies! We are so proud of both @leenanorms.bsky.social and RAMZEE 🥰
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Workers are the big unspoken tension in Reeves' speech, both in a 'uh, where are you getting these workers from?' (starts a row with the Home Office) and 'uh, what terms are you employing them under?' (starts a row over workers' rights legislation with practically everybody in the Labour party).
I'd love to see a proper analysis of how we're going to find the people to build the third runway at Heathrow, several new reservoirs, 1.5 million houses and various other new infrastructure without mass imigration.
January 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Workers are the big unspoken tension in Reeves' speech, both in a 'uh, where are you getting these workers from?' (starts a row with the Home Office) and 'uh, what terms are you employing them under?' (starts a row over workers' rights legislation with practically everybody in the Labour party).
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Labour MPs who follow me on here — I know you’re there! — please do push for this change of 6 weeks pat leave at 90% of pay. And please also push for an increase in statutory maternity pay — to minimum wage! — and for pay to cover the full 12 months of leave.
EXC: Expanding the statutory level of paternity leave for fathers could deliver £2.6bn of long-term growth to the UK economy, according to new @jrf-uk.bsky.social research
Improving Paternity Leave Provisions Could Boost The Economy By £2.6bn
Expanding the statutory level of paternity leave for fathers could deliver £2.6bn of long-term growth to the UK economy, according to new research.
www.politicshome.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Labour MPs who follow me on here — I know you’re there! — please do push for this change of 6 weeks pat leave at 90% of pay. And please also push for an increase in statutory maternity pay — to minimum wage! — and for pay to cover the full 12 months of leave.
Rejections from US editors are either 3 carefully constructed paragraphs of kind and insightful feedback, making it clear they finished the entire manuscript, or "no thanks"
January 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Rejections from US editors are either 3 carefully constructed paragraphs of kind and insightful feedback, making it clear they finished the entire manuscript, or "no thanks"
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there IS no history of protest in the US (or the UK) without the Quakers
January 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
there IS no history of protest in the US (or the UK) without the Quakers
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LOL at the idea of anti-Trump resistance people 'welcoming' the Quakers to social justice protest
January 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
LOL at the idea of anti-Trump resistance people 'welcoming' the Quakers to social justice protest
You should definitely consider submitting to Rhian if you fit in her MSWL, because she is very organized, a perceptive and thorough editor and cares intensely about authors' rights!
So I have a SUPER fun update? News?? I’m now an Associate Agent and am open to queries 🎉📚
I plan to do a proper thread soon, but for now, find my MSWL here (basically, I’m a fiend for romance): www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-age...
I plan to do a proper thread soon, but for now, find my MSWL here (basically, I’m a fiend for romance): www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-age...
Rhian Parry | Literary Agent | The Blair Partnership
I'm seeking commercial fiction with a primary focus on romance, including contemporary romcoms, romantasy, paranormal romance, and dystopian romance. I am
www.theblairpartnership.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
You should definitely consider submitting to Rhian if you fit in her MSWL, because she is very organized, a perceptive and thorough editor and cares intensely about authors' rights!