@VTichkova It really motivates you doesn't it! I love entering comps for exactly this reason 🥰😅
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🍃Hazel Compton 🍃
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🍃Hazel Compton 🍃
@HJCompton
She/Her 🧜♀️ SL @gollancz 🧚 LL children's @bathnovelaward @guppypublishing, @chickenhousebooks @adventuresfiction 📖 @WritersCentre Escalator alumn
Oxford, England Katılım Aralık 2009
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Entering competitions is my new found way to polish my work, gather enthusiasm, and keep on the dreaming. Thank you #SearchlightAwards
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@sophielflynn Hah! I did this last week. It was so refreshing!
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Is there anything more satisfying than taking out all the filler words from your novel-in-progress?
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Almost finished my book which means I am at the point with it where I'm sure it's very boring and nothing happens in it at all
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Hooked from the first chapter, everyone needs this book! Happy book birthday @jesspopps !
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@HJCompton Thanks @HJCompton. We’re overdue a Feggs catch up! Hope you’re ok 😍
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Congratulations to all- especially the wondrous @debbielnuttall !!!
Times/Chicken House Writing Competition@TimesCHPrize
Calling all #TimesChickenHouse competition 2024 entrants!📣 The LONGLIST has been decided! CONGRATULATIONS to all who have been longlisted, we had a tough job narrowing down to the final list. Head to our blog find out more👉 bit.ly/4cSTxjH
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I didn't get a like,but reading this thread was heartening regardless, and I had a lot of fun pitching and reading other's work!
Darley Anderson Agency@DA_Agency
(1/6) 🧵Thank you everyone who participated, promoted and pitched in yesterday's #PitchtoDA event! We were bowled over by the quality of pitches we received and have had so much fun reading them all...
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BRIDESMAIDS × THAT NIGHT
A new love, a Cornish paradise, and a waspish hen do. The maid of honour kills the bride, but when everyone has a secret to hide, it may be easier to get away with it than she thought.
#Lgbtq #crime #thriller #adult #PitchToDA
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PEAKY BLINDERS X ALICE IN WONDERLAND X ADDIE LA RUE
A speakeasy singer is fated to die, but when her son activates a strange device her destiny is changed, forcing her into an arms-race against Glasgow’s dangerous gangs to harness magic that will bring her son home.
#PitchtoDA
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Practical Magic x Honey Witch
Two sisters develop the ability to sense love and are able to determine a person’s true love… for everyone except themselves.
Cozy fantasy/romantasy based in a PNW-inspired magical realism setting with Folklore/Evermore vibes ✨
#PitchToDA
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THE GILDED WOLVES x THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE
When her son tears a hole between the human and fairy realms, a speakeasy singer will rage against Fate to save him from the clutches of ancient Gods. #XpoNorth
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Absolutely love this line. Making me itch to get my hands on the WIP!
🍃Hazel Compton 🍃@HJCompton
"I watched her move through the water and thought: she may well be the death of me. "
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Always smashing it with your one liners Hazel ;)
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THE GUEST LIST x BRIDESMAIDS She's tolerated her waspish best friend for years and weathered the boarding-school friends. But when falling for the groom's sister at the hen do ends in a dead body, things may have gone too far. #Lgbtq #crime #thriller #adult #PitchToDA
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Drug-fuelled backpacker nights on the streets of Melbourne aren't enough to wipe Naina's memory clean of being ghosted by her Dad. 👻
🍃 A story about finding unexpected love in hostel kitchens, in Melbourne bars, & where love already exists.🍴
#FoundFamily #PitchToDA #RomCom
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It’s 2016 and for Naina, on the surface life in Australia is all sun, suss boys and being ghosted by her dad, but she’s so focused on her London past that she is sabotaging her future.
#PitchToDA #RomCom #FoundFamily #AustraliaBooks #LondonBooks
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THE GUEST LIST x BRIDESMAIDS
She's tolerated her waspish best friend for years and weathered the boarding-school friends. But when falling for the groom's sister at the hen do ends in a dead body, things may have gone too far. #Lgbtq #crime #thriller #adult #PitchToDA
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@AbigaleWriting Oooh I love your Spotify playlist inclusion!
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Would you know the difference if you met the love of your life & the one who would destroy it on the same day?
Ally didn't.
💗 twist on friends-to-lovers
🫶🏻 described as a love letter to your 20s
😘 kiss years in the making
📆 perfect for those who binged One Day
#PitchtoDA
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