Wishing all those who celebrate #Passover a happy Seder.
Hard to celebrate when #hostages are still being held and suffering in Gaza continues but let’s us all hope for #Peace and understanding and tolerance.

I hope so!

What Literary Agents Look For.
(From youtube.com/watch?v=mD-uP2…)
#writing advice #literaryagents #publishing #writing community #writing

Today’s cartoon in The Guardian is relevant to my thread.

Very exciting - Cover revealed for the US edition of Karla's Choice, the upcoming book by Nick Harkaway.
Available for pre-order everywhere!

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'Some of the greatest moments in my career have been launching debut novels'

Jonny Geller (top literary agent & CEO of The Curtis Brown Group ) on his career highlights and advice for #amquerying authors ✍️

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Friends in the USA/Canada, #YouAreHere is out on 28th May and available to pre-order now...

Very excited by this partnership!

He was reading The Art of the Deal.

Have we ever lived through a period where so many nations have been let down by so many incompetent (and in some cases, malevolent) leaders when decent leaders were most needed?

At least Trump is not in the Situation Room.

Iran attacks Israel.

A very worry time for Israel, everyone in the region and all of us.

As it would have been Samuel Beckett’s birthday today, I’m sure he would have liked this cartoon.

Assisting security at my local synagogue today, we were harangued by a woman who shouted at us that we have “learned nothing from the Holocaust” and “shame on you”.
This was a Sabbath prayer gathering- nothing to do with Netanyahu or #Holocaust .

#antisemitism by no other name.

The Sunday Times gives David Nicholls’s new novel, #YouAreHere (out on 23rd in UK), a rave!
“You Are Here is a triumph…it deserves to join #OneDay on the bestseller lists immediately“.