Steph this is amazing! Love it ❤️

I need more coffee, but I initially read this as ‘ostriches’ and for one second thought, wow, I had no idea they could swim and isn’t it interesting how their legs camouflage completely. I’m going to make another coffee now, a big one

Hello though!!! 😁😁 Lovely to see you ❤️

Oh, good advice - it feels like he could pop out from anywhere. When the dark comes rising…

That’s so interesting - would love to know more about the folklore around here (not long home from a misty walk up Nordy Bank)

I will caveat this by saying that personal approaches came from authors I’d chatted to enough on Old Twitter for us both to be confident it was a good idea, and I was delighted to quote for them. But a book’s success should not lean for one second on the author’s personal contacts.

Honestly, it perpetuates inequality. Publishers should have a strong idea of comp titles and by all means request author input, but make the approaches themselves in such a way that the author being asked can easily say no. It can put both parties in such an awkward position

A mix. This may be controversial but I wish authors asking other authors for quotes wasn’t a thing. It’s inequitable and awkward: not everyone has contacts and whilst I’m very grateful to all the kind folk who quoted for me, I felt as if I were putting them on the spot if I was doing the asking

Hello!!

You do though, don’t you? 😁😬

Oh how brilliant - I’ll be looking forward to this! 😍