There are various entry level positions going at Bloomsbury Books UK at the moment, including this one as Publicity Assistant for our award-winning Childrens Team bloomsbury.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/35… Applications close 23rd Aug, no experience of publishing needed, love of books a must!

I do love the US vs UK queries joint edits throw up. US: 'What is a stud wall?' Well, probably not as exciting as you might be thinking...

It will never be anything but a complete joy to me when someone reads one of my authors' books and loves it as much as I do and takes the time to share that. Thank you Theresa Howes and congratulations, Richard Strachan! The Unrecovered will be haunting your bookshelves in Feb.

Waaah! It's only Susanna Clarke talking about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell at the Southbank Centre! The book partly responsible for the naming of Raven Books (and also just a stone cold classic).

The Mirror and the Light on tv in December? Yes yes yes!

Our first ever gift book at Raven Books has just landed! We've made some little tweaks to our raven, Mortimer, on the jacket in tribute to Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper's brilliance.

Spending an afternoon wrangling keywords and thema codes for various books in my authors' backlist. Weird how films and tv never show this when having an editor protagonist. (This tweet totally unrelated to watching the first episode of Magpie Murders last night.)

Practically doing backflips around the office after the legendary Michelle Paver, author of two of the most terrifying ghost stories ever written, has given me an amazing endorsement for Richard Strachan's forthcoming horror novel, The Unrecovered.

Thank you to Waterstones for sharing our glorious jacket for 10 Marchfield Square, coming from the dream team that is Nicola Whyte, Therese Keating and Raven Books next Spring. If you like Only Murders in the Building, you'll want to get on this charming debut asap.

One of my colleagues just sent me this. She knows me too well.

Sunshine, a cup of tea, a new draft to edit, almost the end of August and just prior to the Frankfurt rush beginning. Let's gooooo!

As the pre Frankfurt rush of submissions begins to gallop over the hills towards my inbox, I realise my not at all pretentious wishlist is for someone to write me a modern day Bleak House. Plot! Characters! Mystery! Spontaneous Human Combustion!