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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I also wish that more people understood that, for kids, a step parent is a parent, even if they say otherwise. A stepmother who is intolerant of you is psychologically the same as a father who is intolerant of you. Little kids aren't able to emotionally separate that.

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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.

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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

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The Blair Partnership @tbpagency.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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...

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

congratulations Sue!! so pleased for you!

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Sarah Harkness @sarahhark.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Sorry, this tweet is referring to unpublished books - I'm a literary agent!

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I've read it! But as an agent I'm looking for unpublished books

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I'd love a mystery, with a sleuth who is a fish out of water, or who gets pulled into investigating against their will #mswl

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Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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?...

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#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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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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.

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Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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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Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Inside every one of us is two wolves etc etc

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My tiktok fyp is wall to wall Robbie Williams and Alexander from Traitors 😭 I did this to myself

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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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The Blair Partnership @tbpagency.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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.

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Meanwhile in the UK it's "I absolutely loved this book! Unfortunately the sales team have said they will shoot me if I buy another debut 🥲"

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

there IS no history of protest in the US (or the UK) without the Quakers

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

LOL at the idea of anti-Trump resistance people 'welcoming' the Quakers to social justice protest

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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!

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My A Level English Teacher used John Fowles as a masterclass in this...

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

you should raise it as a formal grievance

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #165345: Getting published is hard enough. But staying published is harder. The literary world is filled with once-successful authors who can't get a publishing deal any more. That's why it's important to stay in touch; keep flexible; change, when you have to.

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Agree earlier in the game would be better though. Or not revealing the seer's identity to the whole group would be fun.

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I sort of think it was almost guaranteed she'd win it which was why it was a great twist? Otherwise it'd all have played out too similarly to last year.

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

That said, if they decide to keep it in next year, I don't think they can make it a challenge reward. It clearly puts a target on your back. Knowing that, would contestants actually compete for it next time round?

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I don't think the Seer ruined the game, there were a lot of ways it could have played out and Charlotte was very unlucky in how it did. Overwhelming likelihood was too faithfuls in that room.

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My seven month old keeps unlocking my phone with face unlock. Taking this as proof of my youthfulness.

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"If you miss #TheTraitors, don't worry, The Apprentice is back next week" yeah alright, if you miss Christmas don't worry, it's Ash Wednesday next week. Fuck are you on about.

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The endgame is always disappointing, isn't it? Just rewards mistrust and selfishness. The good guys always lose. #thetraitors

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 24/01/2025

*hands over £5 a month to Only Xan*

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I actually think Frankie saying to trust her because she's a mummy when she knows Charlotte is struggling to have kids is a bit fucked up? #thetraitors

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Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I think Frankie and Charlotte will both be voted out and the others will split the money. #thetraitors

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I suspect this is because the “murder mystery” format as developed in Victorian fiction is an attempt to impose rational order on chaos, and so creates the illusion that someone is in control, that someone will fix this mess, even if everything except the murder mystery is batshit. It’s reassurance.

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