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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Oh to be in the HarperCollins Slack right now

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Publishing's dirty secret coming to light? Early Christmas present, that finally bloody happening!

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Decent evening at the Wolfson Prize 💃

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I’ve known Ella for donkeys - in fact she recently found an application I sent to her from 2013 where I wanted to be an intern for her! - and her experience, expertise, vision, and ambition will only make Apple Tree bear greater fruit. I can’t wait to see what the years ahead hold!

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Absolutely delighted to be welcoming Ella Kahn to Apple Tree Literary as the company celebrates its first major expansion. Ella joins as a partner and as managing director after 12 years of running DKW Lit Agencg, and brings her stellar list of fiction, YA, and non-fiction clients with her.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

America! Fuck yeah! (Great book this one. YooEssians, keep an eye…)

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Well this is a little bit fucking amazing! 😱🤯😍 Honoured as fucking fuck and CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE BFA NOMINEES!!! (Bona nomination thread linked below!)

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I am delighted to see The Green Man's War on the British Fantasy Society Awards 2025 shortlist for Best Novel, and Fight Like A Girl in the Best Anthology category. As always, I read all nominees thinking 'ooh, read that, it's good!' and 'ooh, interesting'. britishfantasysociety.org/british-fant...

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British Fantasy Awards 2025: Shortlist Announced! – The British Fantasy Society

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Nature telling us something 😂

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The two foxes in my garden that decided to noisily wake me at 5am were clearly more aware of global events than I was, and thought ‘fuck it, we’d better get our freak on while we still can.’

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: Unbound is, in fact, in administration, but has not completed winding up. There is an administrator’s proposal that is seeking creditor input — AUTHORS, THAT IS YOU.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

And then this. It absolutely *sucks*. And it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. I don’t know whether they were underpaying that book’s royalties back then - I only had mental maths to go off - but it wouldn’t shock me, just as it wouldn’t shock me if it’s being happening to others for ages

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Meantime, Unbound were chatting to him. I don’t know the ins and outs, but suddenly he was signing with them for a few more books. I can only assume the whiff of an agent wanting to look at those royalty statements made them jump to it and offer him the world, frankly. 4/

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I sucked up the irritation of the last year - he’d done what he thought best, and was talented - and told him he’d been underpaid, based on what facts I had to hand. Other publishers would be interested in working with him, I thought. 3/

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

He wanted to talk about his options. Book 1 had been pretty successful in the scheme of things. Annoyingly, it was a secondary concept I’d worked up with him, after we’d had some lovely turndowns for another idea, but thems the breaks when it comes to agenting 2/

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🧵A few years ago, an author I’d approached a year or so before that got back in touch with me. He’d decided after our first conversations that he’d prefer to take an offer on the table from Unbound. He came back to me because he suspected his royalties weren’t adding up 1/

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Yup. And don’t get me wrong, Herne Hill is bloody lovely with seriously expensive and nice houses - but London is culture, surely? And the spaces are for all, including - sometimes - for music

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Look at them. A bunch of rich people in their 50s+ who are more concerned by a bit of noise than the pleasure of thousands. I live round the corner from Brockwell Park. Is it a bit of a pain? Yes. But the actual festivals are a few weekends a year. Deal with it.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

How do they think Lambeth Council can keep the Country Show free? And awfully convenient that they have no issues with that, either, despite it having the same footprint and being part of the same change of use license. (No shade on the Country Show, which is bloody fab)

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Eugh. Brockwell Park festivals are vibrant, great for local businesses, and include Mighty Hoopla, London’s biggest LBGTQ-coded festival. And a small number of millionaires want to ruin the enjoyment of 100k+ ppl for a bit of inconvenience by their mansions www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Campaigner wins court case over festivals in south London park

Rebekah Shaman, of Protect Brockwell Park, took action against Lambeth council over number of large-scale events

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I’ve checked that Atlantic article and it appears that Meta has stolen Anti Social, the book I wrote which is still available in hardback, paperback and audiobook formats from wherever you buy books and is a great gift for friends and family alike.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

As you should be. This morning ought to be a smug-Una morning

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Well blow me down with a feather, my lovely #DoctorWho book "Caged" has made the BSFA shortlist for best fiction for younger readers. I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I've got onto an awards shortlist, so I'm a bit chuffed. file770.com/bsfa-awards-...

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BSFA Awards 2024 Shortlist

The British Science Fiction Association today announced the shortlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards for work published in 2024. The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. They are v…

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Nick - one of life’s good people - moved to Costa Rica last year, only for life to have kicked him & his wife repeatedly in the balls since. This is the latest, worst, in a string of crap they’ve had. Do help them out if you’ve a spare fiver.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Bought a house. Like, properly exchanged and everything. Blimey.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

So, 13 of us are going skiing this week. Earlier today the below happened on the way to the resort. 6 hours later and we’re halfway along our 2h journey 😂😂 Maybe we’ll get there by 1am, 2am? If we’re lucky? At least it’s with good people 😂

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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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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Traitors: seer was a great addition, but it should have been an episode earlier. Lost all the jeopardy by being in the penultimate…

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

My new year’s resolution generator for @theguardian.com. Let me know what you get!

Title: Still haven't made a new year's resolution? Let us help you generate one!

Image: a diagram which asks you to input “The year of your birth added to the number of pets in your home”, “The number of days in the current month plus your shoe size” and “The sum of the first three digits in your telephone number” which will seemingly make a random resolution but actually always* makes “support your local bookshop”.

*Unless you have size 68 shoes or a negative number of pets or some other nonsense in which case you will get the silly outcome you deserve.

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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Monday people! I've put down a few words opening lines of books that I acquired. This is part of a loosely-defined, irregularly published series of posts on explaining my job. Requests, questions and suggestions of topics to cover are very welcome!

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Rick Havoc @rickhavoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"Look honey, the neighbors put Christmas lights on their trash can!!"

Cybertruck decked out in Christmas lights.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Literary Agent: Cups are so hot right now, and this one has a brilliant profile, and what content it does have showcases a rare talent for holding liquid. Sorry, you’ve already seen a half empty *and* a half full cup this month???

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Off the back of her inclusion in this year’s Global Dazed 100 yesterday – *the* list of the buzziest names in culture right now – I’m so chuffed that Ellen Atlanta’s Pixel Flesh has been shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Award for Non-Fiction!

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

“As long as the Tories exist, his book will be essential.” Brilliant to see Graham Brady’s fantastic and fascinating memoir KINGMAKER named a Times Book of the Year!

A screenshot of The Times Politics Book of the Year description for KINGMAKER by Graham Brady. It reads: “The perfect companion piece to Seldon and Johnson, the former 1922 Committee chairman’s memoir dispenses spectacularly with the obligations that once defined him — discretion, restraint and saying nothing about the number of letters of no-confidence in his office safe — and shows us how power really works at the commanding heights of British politics. By turns waspish and bone-dry, Graham Brady is a charming guide to the mortal combat that was the Conservative Party 2015-2024. Myths are debunked, prime ministers exposed and secrets revealed. As long as the Tories exist, his book will be essential.”

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

❄️ Welcome to Fairharbour—a city split in two. ☀️ CITY OF ALL SEASONS ARCs have arrived! Co-written by @oliverklangmead.bsky.social and Aliya Whiteley, this is an emotional science fantasy about cousins trapped in mirrored summer and winter cities. Request an ARC here: bit.ly/TitanARCs

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I really enjoy how much of the conversation around “why are people leaving X for Blue Sky” focuses on politics, when it’s actually mostly about the sheer delight of having a functional micro messaging service again

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Having spent the last two weeks dealing with a bunch of tricky, nitty gritty things, I’m well behind on my edits for clients, which is daunting and frustrating But on the positive side, I’m genuinely excited to plunge in to some of the brilliant things they’ve been sending me. To the coalface!

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Jen Williams | STONEBOUND out next year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Old Facebook memories can be a force for good

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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Please read books. I’m begging you.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What are we, 5, maybe 6 (?) year later and has there been any game that has matched it for sheer replayability and strategic thinking? What a game. Balatro gets somewhere close, but come at the King and all that..

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

18mo ago I started a Substack - Representative Thinking - for occasional ramblings on both the business of publishing, and my thoughts on agenting. Sorely neglected it since - but if I were to actively post once a month minimum would people be interested? representativethinking.substack.com

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Representative Thinking | Substack

Occasional waffling about agenting, and the publishing industry. Click to read Representative Thinking, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Very proud of Hannah Durkin’s shortlisting for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown this evening. A worth winner in Henry Hemming, but delighted to see the recognition for Hannah’s incredible book SURVIVORS.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Alright, have at it Bluesky. Here’s hoping for the old days or something.

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Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It’s silly! But I’m loving it!

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