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Celeste Ward-Best
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Marketing Director at Little, Brown | She/Her | Current read: The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
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Hello, hi.

I’ve made an inexhaustive starter pack of the bookish people I’ve found here so far 📚

go.bsky.app/EeTCv2s
Thank you. I’m so excited for us to publish The Whispers of Rock 🪨!
February 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Thank you!
February 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Thank you 🎉
February 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Thank you 🎉
February 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Thank you!
February 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Thank you, lovely!
February 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
New year, new job! I’m delighted to be stepping up to Marketing Director at Little, Brown 🎉

The best bit? I have the privilege of working with the very best team in the business.

www.thebookseller.com/news/little-...
Little, Brown promotes Celeste Ward-Best to marketing director
Little, Brown has promoted Celeste Ward-Best to marketing director across the group, a movement from her previous role as marketing director for literary.
www.thebookseller.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
😱 surely not!
December 5, 2024 at 8:45 AM
So thrilled for you!! It’s thoroughly deserved 👏
November 26, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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audiobooks count as reading.
audiobooks count as reading.
audiobooks count as reading.
audiobooks count as reading.
audiobooks count as reading.
audiobooks count as reading.
audiobooks count as reading.
audiobooks count as reading.
audiobooks count as reading.
audiobooks count as reading.
November 23, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis
Discoveries 2025
Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Oh hi!

I’ve got a starter pack here that might help.

go.bsky.app/EeTCv2s
November 23, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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Buying a book and actually reading it are two very different hobbies.
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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Start of a new Starter Pack, this time for literary events.

If you are one or know of one on Bluesky, please let me know.

💙📚 #BookSky

go.bsky.app/PHw99bS
November 21, 2024 at 7:23 AM
This sounds delicious. You’ve got lucky friends!
November 21, 2024 at 6:28 PM
The best news!
November 20, 2024 at 6:30 PM
A book token for me so I get the added gift of browsing a bookshop, agonising over my choices, eagerly taking them home and then not reading them until two years later 😅
November 20, 2024 at 7:50 AM
😂
November 20, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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It’s been a joy to work with Colm Tóibín on our latest book - a brand new edition of Washington Square by Henry James. I can’t wait to share his superb introduction with readers 💙📚
manderleypress.com/shop/p/washingtonsquare
November 20, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Everything is crossed for you 🤞🤞🤞
November 19, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Congrats Rory!
November 19, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Hi! This is all v exciting and new 🌱
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Good tips here!
I’ve been making use of Lists for this reason as well. I can’t follow a zillion people and still have a functional timeline, but I’m adding interesting accounts to different Lists so I can click over to read their posts when I want to.

Lists = just ppl on it
Feeds = algorithm based on ppl on it
Starter packs are great but worth considering making hyper-specific packs into Feeds! That way people can, for example, follow regular updates specifically from everyone that works at your publication. I’m less likely to follow a gazillion starter pack people then I am to simply follow one feed!
November 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
The best news. I was at a loss after Cecily for what to read next and here it was!
November 19, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Adding it to my list. I bought Constanza yesterday on your rec, you’re going to bankrupt me!
November 19, 2024 at 7:46 AM