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Hazell Ward

@hazellward.bsky.social

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Writer, Reader, Student, Mother, Grandmother, Wrexham fan, @The_CWA Dagger winner. Literary Agent: @sarahsuch

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Hazell Ward @hazellward.bsky.social · Aug 21

Publication Day!
#TheGameisMurder is out now. Thanks to everyone who helped me. In particular, my wonderful agent @sarahsuch.bsky.social, my publishers @michaeljbooks.bsky.social & @berkleypub.bsky.social and all my supervisors at Man Met University.
Couldn't have done it without you.
Thank you!

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Hazell Ward @hazellward.bsky.social · Aug 4

Check out my guest appearance on the turnthepage.blubrry.net podcast with the lovely librarians from Syosset Public Library
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Turn The Page – Episode 361A – Hazell Ward

Turn the Page | Syosset Library | Est. 2018

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Hazell Ward @hazellward.bsky.social · Jul 28

Preorder #TheGameisMurder today!
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Use the code SUMMER25 to get 25% off.

Hazell Ward @hazellward.bsky.social · May 19

Free Book Alert!
If you live in the US you might be lucky enough to win one of these lovely books, including my own. #TheGameisMurder
bit.ly/3EwOHfW

Hazell Ward @hazellward.bsky.social · May 4

Went to see the wonderful Elly Griffiths at Wrexham Carnival of Words last week and got a signed copy of her new novel, The Frozen People. I have just finished reading it. An innovative twist on the traditional detective novel. Who doesn't want to read about a time-travelling detective!

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · Apr 17

"It has no value, that's why we want it so much"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Apr 17

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

But their defense also hinges on the argument that the individual books themselves are, essentially, worthless—one expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of a single book in LLM pretraining “adjusted its performance by less than 0.06% on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise.” Furthermore, Meta says, that while the company “has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in LLM development,” they see no market in paying authors to license their books because “for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange, but none of Plaintiffs works has economic value, individually, as training data.” (An argument essential to fair use, but that also sounds like a scaled up version of a scenario in which the New York Philharmonic board argues against paying individual members of the orchestra because the organization spent a lot of money on the upkeep of David Geffen Hall, and also, a solo bassoon cannot play every part in “The Rite of Spring.”)

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Hazell Ward @hazellward.bsky.social · Mar 6

The Game is Murder is available on Net Galley now!
Get it while you can.
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The Game Is Murder

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Hazell Ward @hazellward.bsky.social · Mar 6

Enter now to win an advance copy of The Game is Murder!
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Sarah Such @sarahsuch.bsky.social · Feb 22

Big deal news ahead of London Book Fair! Huge congrats to @hazellward.bsky.social
on her landmark debut novel being pre-empted by Penguin Michael Joseph in a major publishing deal. I couldn’t be more excited about this stunning metafictional whodunnit.

www.thebookseller.com/rights/pengu...

Penguin Michael Joseph pre-empts Hazell Ward's 'masterful' debut novel

Michael Joseph has pre-empted The Game Is Murder, an "immersive" and "highly original" murder mystery from Hazell Ward.

www.thebookseller.com

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Hazell Ward @hazellward.bsky.social · Feb 22