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Portobello Literary
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A literary agency based in Edinburgh.

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Happy publication day to @christinariley.bsky.social and Looking Down at the Stars ✨

Discover the wonder of marine life seen up close in these joyous and sparkling essays 🪸

Visit our blog to read a guest post by Christina!

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Looking Down at the Stars - guest post by Christina Riley - Saraband
When I applied to be an underwater artist-in-residence at the Argyll Hope Spot my plan wasn’t to write, but to look. I’d been taking underwater photographs with various waterproof 35mm cameras, either...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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We're excited that @christinariley.bsky.social will be launching Looking Down at the Stars at the lovely @portybooks.bsky.social, in conversation with @rkrystalli.bsky.social ✨

🗓️ Thursday 13th November, 7pm

🎟️ Tickets available here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris...

#Booksky
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Christina Riley in conversation with Roxani Krystalli, The Portobello Bookshop on the 13th November 2025, 7:00pm. A signed and dedicated copy of Looking Down at the Stars by Christina Riley, published by Saraband and available to pre-order at The Portobello Bookshop.
September 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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louisekenward.bsky.social
Fantastic news - and wonderful write up from @thebookseller.com - great spot @felinecharpentier.bsky.social @portyliterary.bsky.social
#NatureWriting #BookSky #DisabilitySky
Paperbacks of 2025:
September 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Industry Insider – Understanding Access Forms and Riders – Tools for Disabled, Chronically Ill and Neurodivergent Authors with me, @pollyrowena.bsky.social @portyliterary.bsky.social Hannah Knowles and Ama Badu.

13th November
14:00 - 15:00 GMT

bit.ly/48Bmxxb

#SoAatHome #disability #publishing

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A graphic of a computer screen with accessibility icons around it. Beside it are photos of the five participants. White text on an orange background reads “Understanding Access Forms and Riders: Tools for Disabled, Chronically Ill and Neurodivergent Authors with Claire Wade, Hannah Knowles, Caro Clarke, Polly Atkin and Ama Badu. #SoAatHome 11.2025”
October 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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extrateethmag.bsky.social
We spoke to the brilliant Caro Clarke of @portyliterary.bsky.social about all things publishing: from the role agents play in supporting writers and what they look for in a book, to ways writers can build a career in an industry in flux.

Read more at our Substack With Bite!
August 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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rachelcdailey.bsky.social
Nottingham you were wonderful last night, sold out event celebrating disability rights activism full of rage, solidarity and disabled joy. Bloody love that I get to do this for my job!
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social @portyliterary.bsky.social @lozzagilbert.bsky.social @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social
a stack of my book ramping up rights which is green with a disability pride flag on the front and the subtitle an unfinished history of british disability activism in yellow then my name in white. just behind my book and to the side is a selection of other disabled books three people sat down smiling and holding up copies of ramping up rights. Lozza, a white person with hair wearing a cheky shirt and smart casual grey jorts sat in a wheelchair. me, Rachel, a white woman with collar bone length ginger hair wearing a long green floral dress and big glasses with a pink crystal chain sat on a chair and maisie a white woman with long blonde hair kept off her face with a black hairband wearing a black dress and cardigan in a wheelchair
August 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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pollyrowena.bsky.social
Also another great piece about toxic ableist tropes in books and the Salt Path fiasco here from @bookwormvaught.bsky.social

Just realised it was in 2018 I was being told by people in PRH that my book about nature and illness was unsaleable if it didn't have a redemptive cure arc. 🫠
July 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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pollyrowena.bsky.social
We have graphics, which must mean it's real!

Thanks to @eandtbooks.bsky.social and @portyliterary.bsky.social for conspiring with me to bring this book out into the world and letting me have the ridiculous pleasure of making this #NatureWriting longlist two years in a row. #TheCompanyOfOwls
The company of owls cover with a colourful blue, orange and yellow tawny owl print by matt underwood, on a teal tile background with wainwright prize logo and 2025 nature writing longlist to the left of the book cover.
July 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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My Audible Original novel The Shape of Monsters, read by the brilliant Omari Douglas (It's a Sin, Black Doves) will be out on July 3rd!
The cover for THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS by CL Hellisen. Two silhouetted figures stand before a void of wavering red and blue light, in which can faintly be seen the eyes of the creature inside it.
June 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
portyliterary.bsky.social
Happy publication day (yesterday!) to Emily Cuddeford and Rachel Morgan for Kitchen Table, the gorgeous debut cookbook from beloved Scottish bakery Twelve Triangles

Simple things made well.
March 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
portyliterary.bsky.social
Happy belated paperback publication day to @louisekenward.bsky.social and all the contributors of Moving Mountains!!

A first-of-its-kind anthology of nature writing by authors living with chronic illness and physical disability, with a foreword by @samlwalton.bsky.social
On a yellow table against a blue wall, there are two copies of the paperback edition of Moving Mountains.
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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rachelcdailey.bsky.social
So @waterstones.bsky.social is running a preorders campaign this weekend where you can get 25% off “selected” upcoming books.

However I’ve just tried the code with mine and a few of my friends (who are all debut or small authors) books and they’re not included
February 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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louisekenward.bsky.social
If you haven’t yet found @portyliterary.bsky.social excellent course on writing a book proposal, session 2 has now arrived!

Delighted to have been invited to contribute my own experience of wrestling a project into a book…read my guest post below:

#naturewriting 💙📚🌿🦋✍️

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Proposal Course: Session Two
Some thoughts on synopsis, pace and themes, followed by a guest post from Louise Kenward on developing a narrative.
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February 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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"In those final years, the prevailing emotion was one of exuberance and energy. We let the monster swallow us, and we were happy as we were digested."

Published June 10th.
A copy of the Angry Robot bound proof of Awakened by Laura Elliott. The cover, a vast raven with a blue eye and the Tower of London on its back is by Sarah Flaherty.
February 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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titanbooks.bsky.social
A NEW SEMESTER BEGINS 📚 🖋️

We're thrilled to reveal the gorgeous cover of THESE DREAMING SPIRES, edited by @marieoregan.bsky.social & @paulkane.bsky.social! Featuring 12 new dark academia short stories from masters of the genre.

We'll see you on the first day of term, September 2nd, 2025.
January 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
portyliterary.bsky.social
Lovely clients book post this week:

A proof of @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social debut horror novel Awakened (June ‘25) and a finished copy of the Kitchen Table cookbook by Twelve Triangles bakers extraordinaire Emily Cuddeford and Rachel Morgan (out March)!

Can’t wait for you all to discover them!
On a wooden bookshelf against a blue wall is a red pillar candle with dripping wax on a black candle holder and a proof of the book Awakened by Laura Elliott On a wooden bookshelf against a blue wall is a red pillar candle with dripping wax on a black candle holder and a proof of the book Awakened by Laura Elliott showing its back cover. On a wooden dresser surrounded by old fashioned ceramic crockery is the cookbook Kitchen Table: Simple Things Made Well by Emily Cuddeford and Rachel Morgan On a wooden dresser surrounded by old fashioned ceramic crockery is the cookbook Kitchen Table: Simple Things Made Well by Emily Cuddeford and Rachel Morgan showing its back cover
February 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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elspethwrites.bsky.social
Hi new followers! I'm Elspeth, a Scottish writer who loves animals, (vegan) baking and reading across genres. My dark academia debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, comes out this July! My lovely agent is offering a six month free sub to their Substack for anyone who preorders from an indie bookstore x
portyliterary.bsky.social Portobello Literary @portyliterary.bsky.social · Jan 11
What to look forward to in 2025 from our authors and our Substack:

portobelloliterary.substack.com/p/portobello...
A social media graphic with six book covers in the background (Kitchen Table, Moving Mountains, The Ghost Lake, Ramping Up Rights, Awakened, These Mortal Bodies) with text in white saying “Portobello Literary in 2025… What to look forward from our authors and our Substack — includes an offer for subscribers!”
January 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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What to look forward to in 2025 from our authors and our Substack:

portobelloliterary.substack.com/p/portobello...
A social media graphic with six book covers in the background (Kitchen Table, Moving Mountains, The Ghost Lake, Ramping Up Rights, Awakened, These Mortal Bodies) with text in white saying “Portobello Literary in 2025… What to look forward from our authors and our Substack — includes an offer for subscribers!”
January 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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louisekenward.bsky.social
Moving Mountains is coming out in paperback in March, and look at some of the other beauties coming from @portyliterary.bsky.social this year!

Caro is offering some brilliant rewards for all preorders, take a look:
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Portobello Literary in 2025...
What to look forward to from our authors and our Substack — includes an offer for subscribers!
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January 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
portyliterary.bsky.social
What to look forward to in 2025 from our authors and our Substack:

portobelloliterary.substack.com/p/portobello...
A social media graphic with six book covers in the background (Kitchen Table, Moving Mountains, The Ghost Lake, Ramping Up Rights, Awakened, These Mortal Bodies) with text in white saying “Portobello Literary in 2025… What to look forward from our authors and our Substack — includes an offer for subscribers!”
January 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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louisekenward.bsky.social
The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin #bookreview

#owls @pollyrowena.bsky.social @portyliterary.bsky.social #NatureWriting

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The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin
A book review (& last minute Christmas gifts for your favourite writers)
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December 24, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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beewyld.bsky.social
🌟2025🌟 Delighted to share that I’m now represented by Caro Clarke @portyliterary.bsky.social joining their brilliant stable of authors 📕🌟 l know that my words & my journey as a writer could not be in better, kinder, more dedicated hands. I look forward to the adventures 💕
January 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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jinireddy.bsky.social
Excellent Substack post by Literary agent Caro Clarke, aka @portyliterary.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/portobel...
Have you heard? "Memoir is dead"...
Or is it? Let's find out!
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November 25, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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louisekenward.bsky.social
Now available to preorder 👀
Look at this beautiful cover!
Congratulations
@angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
@portyliterary.bsky.social &
@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social

#BookSky 💙📚 #Writingcommunity #Disability 🦅
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Revealing the final cover for AWAKENED by Laura Elliott! 🪶 - Angry Robot
The final cover for Awakened by Laura Elliott is here! From an exciting new voice in horror comes the tense and surreal novel Awakened. Exploring the extreme aftermath of induced global sleeplessness ...
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November 26, 2024 at 6:28 PM