Jenny Quintana
jennyquintana.bsky.social
Jenny Quintana
@jennyquintana.bsky.social
Author. The Missing Girl, The Hiding Place, Our Dark Secret
@MantleBooks @panmacmillan
Agent @davidhheadley.bsky.social
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'The reader should begin to feel unease or concern that something isn’t quite right within the first few sentences' 👀

Former student and psychological thriller author,‪ @jennyquintana.bsky.social
Jenny Quintana, shares her top tips for building suspense in your novel . . .
Six ways to build suspense
Start your writing journey with expert teaching from acclaimed writers and top literary agents. Courses online and in London.
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I haven’t mentioned lately that I have a new book out! EAT SLAY LOVE is a feminist romp about 3 unlikely female friends bonding together to take down a narcissistic, abusive con man. Includes food, blood, duelling pistols and a noisy hamster geni.us/eat-slay-love @zaffrebooks.bsky.social #booksky
Eat Slay Love: From the murderously good author of BAD MEN, Julie Mae Cohen
Out 24th October 2024
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November 23, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Enjoying this photo of the young John and Pauline Prescott in which they appear to be a turbulent young couple in a televised play by Alan Sillitoe
November 21, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize Percival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US’s most prestigious literary prizes, for James, his acclaimed reimagining of…
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November 21, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Thanks, Dave! Chuffed you've included me 😊
I made a wee starter pack of crime, thriller and spy novelists I follow on here. I'll do one for the SFF side of things too.

go.bsky.app/7HX5fXo
November 16, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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Hey there #Mystery people! Always on the lookout for more people who write Female Sleuths! This list is small, but looking for new faces go.bsky.app/UE9FQMk 📚💙 #booksky
November 15, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Starter pack for Black writers.💅🏾😌
Comment if you'd like to be added.

Don't self-reject.
Don't look and think "they didn't specify x, y, z is welcomed. I guess it's not for me".

❤️‍🔥Repost for reach, please! TIA!❤️‍🔥

#WritingCommunity #BVM #AmWriting #AmQuerying

go.bsky.app/2pribzv
November 16, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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Over 60? Writer? This is for you
NEW! Never Too Late 60+ award - Bridport Prize
bridportprize.org.uk
November 15, 2024 at 9:22 AM
If you’ve just joined Bluesky and you’re looking for writers to follow, well here you are 😁 Click on my starter pack and follow over 100 writers 📝 go.bsky.app/KZf9noc
November 14, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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5 interconnected short stories I write for the BBC to be broadcast on Book at Bedtime from 25th Nov.
BBC Radio 4 - The Green & The Black by Kit de Waal
New fiction about the changing face of modern Ireland, as told through one family.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Thanks, Anna! Very helpful! x
To avoid writing, I made a starter pack of crime, thriller and mystery writers. Go follow them all.

go.bsky.app/4aZnMYP
November 14, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Writers of the ghostly, gothic and uncanny: there's a great online festival taking place this Sat. All sessions recorded. I'm running a workshop on how to write Gothic fic at 1pm on Sat. Do come.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau...

#writingcommunity #writing #gothicfiction #nanowrimo
November 8, 2023 at 9:07 AM
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Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
November 1, 2023 at 1:06 AM
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This looks great
Publishers Weekly's list of new books on trailblazing women includes THE SISTERHOOD: HOW A NETWORK OF BLACK WOMEN WRITERS CHANGED AMERICAN CULTURE, by @courtneythorsson.bsky.social, and calls it "a scintillating snapshot of a significant moment in American literature." bit.ly/47bdVt9
November 1, 2023 at 12:17 AM
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'Reading by Lamplight (Twilight: Interior)', St John's Wood (1909) by George Clausen

(Lotherton Hall)
October 30, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Great to see you here, Hilary!
I'm new to BlueSky today! Any other authors and book-loving people here?
October 26, 2023 at 1:02 PM
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I am new to blue sky today, I am a book blogger looking for friends from other socials, bloggers, authors, bookstagram, booktockers. I am hoping to get the hang of this site.
October 20, 2023 at 5:07 PM