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Ben Illis

@bookboyben

Kids/YA Literary Agent @ The BIA - Travel writer and Photographer at https://nitter.cf/t.co/UTsWBB8hli - Also all round explorer, glutton, bibliophile and wildlife nut

 Brighton, UK
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Joined April 2013
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Fantastic interview with award-winning author @Eloisejwilliams about writing and her new book, #Seaglass, a salty and windswept ghost story for 9+, out in September nitter.cf/KenilworthBook/status/…
Kenilworth Books🌱🌺🌻🦔 (@KenilworthBook) profile pictureKenilworth Books🌱🌺🌻🦔@KenilworthBook5 Apr 2018
COVER REVEAL! We are hugely proud to have been invited to do the cover reveal for Seaglass, the forthcoming book by award-winning author @Eloisejwilliams for @FireflyPress. Follow the link to read about Seaglass and for an interview with Eloise. #Seaglass kenilworthbooks.co.uk/seagla…
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Replying to @KenilworthBook @Eloisejwilliams @LitWales @bookboyben @blindingbks @fionanoblebooks @LondonBookFair @thebookseller
Thank you @autumnrosewell and @KenilworthBook for this gorgeous cover reveal and interview with @Eloisejwilliams. It’s amazing to see such wonderful bookselling support such a brilliant writer and we are very grateful!
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Come to the #FoxandGazelle Book Launch on Saturday 21st April at 2pm in Hillhead Library, enter our raffle to raise funds for @scotrefcouncil, and you could win tickets to M&D's Theme Park! @mdsthemepark @DiscoverKelpies @GlasgowLib @glasgowlife foxandgazelle.eventbrite.co.…
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Last day for the-bia.com open submission window is almost upon us. Over 220 submissions so far! Eep.... 😲 For more info, pls follow @blindingbks
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A HUGE SHOUT OUT to my editor @jtedithmartha @FireflyPress. Without her #Gaslight would be a veritable Victorian load of bloomers! Thank you Janet! #tirnanogaward #LovetoRead @WelshBooks @LlyfrDaFabBooks
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Just under 30 hours until the BIA's open submission fortnight closes!! And oh wow...Can't believe that we've already had over 220!!!!
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So blooming thrilled about this!!! 😍 nitter.cf/Eloisejwilliams/status…
Eloise Williams (@Eloisejwilliams) profile pictureEloise Williams@Eloisejwilliams27 Mar 2018
COMPLETELY THRILLED that #Gaslight @FireflyPress has been shortlisted for this year's #tirnanogaward @LlyfrDaFabBooks and in such brilliant company too! Thank you @WelshBooks cllc.org.uk/newyddion-news/n… @blindingbks #mglit #ChildrensBooks
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Of all the statements ever made by @Number10press this has got to be the crudest, cruelest and most lethal attack on a whistleblower, ever
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Hard to pick a favourite line from a book bursting to the gills with amazing lines (see what I did there) but this paragraph is an easy second, just after “You brought balls on your first day?”
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It’s not very often that I boss an entire book in one day but knock me sideways if FISH BOY by @ChloeDaykin isn’t the best book I’ve read this year. Absolutely loved loved loved this @FaberChildrens
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Jacob Rees-Mogg's firm invested in a blacklisted Russian bank. Sberbank is subject to sanctions by the US and EU (Reg. 833/2014.) The sanctions are for bombing civilians in Syria, hacking elections, murdering people aboard holiday jets or on our streets is unacceptable.
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It is being reported that the firm of Jacob Rees-Mogg manages nearly £100 million invested in Russia. I can't see much about it in the old mainstream media. Somehow I don't think they'd be so reluctant to report this if it was Jeremy Corbyn, rather than Rees-Mogg.
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SF Said@whatSFSaid15 Mar 2018
I loved @paulmagrs Lost On Mars, so I'm excited by @Enchantedbooks review of The Heart Of Mars: "a science-fiction delight that everyone should read"! mrripleysenchantedbooks.com/…
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Aw, cheers @strangelymagic !! nitter.cf/strangelymagic/status/…
Strangely Magical (@strangelymagic) profile pictureStrangely Magical@strangelymagic15 Mar 2018
Happy Birthday to @bookboyben's amazing literary agency The BIA which turns 5 today and is OPEN TO NEW SUBMISSIONS FOR MG AND YA BOOKS FOR TWO WHOLE WEEKS! 🎂🍾😁the-bia.com/submissions-open…
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Look at all the pretty books!!
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This is on this evening, Manchester sci-fi fans.... nitter.cf/FireflyPress/status/97…
Firefly Press (@FireflyPress) profile pictureFirefly Press@FireflyPress14 Mar 2018
Don't miss the Northern Book Launch of The Heart of Mars & The Missy Chronicles at @waterstonesarndale tomorrow 15 March 6.30-7.30pm with @paulmagrs @richarddinnick & @anghelides chaired by #DoctorWho Big Finish author Matthew Elliott. waterstones.com/events/north…
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A very happy #BookBirthday to @paulmagrs whose The Heart of Mars publishes today completing the much praised Lora trilogy. Looking forward to celebrating at @Wstones_Arndale this evening! fireflypress.co.uk/node/347 #scifi #mglitchat #ukyachat
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5 years ago today, I launched The BIA. It wasn't easy. At all. This photo is made up of books by the wonderful and talented writers of #TeamBIA and published in that time, most of whom hadn't been published before. Couldn't have done it without their support. Very proud agent!
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Happy Book Birthday to @paulmagrs!! #HeartOfMars is out today and is 'Ingeniously inventive, involving and wildly witty, this thrilling finale of the Lora Trilogy is sci-fi, but not as you know it…' according to @lovereadingkids lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/… nitter.cf/FireflyPress/status/97… nitter.cf/FireflyPress/status/97…
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Firefly Press (@FireflyPress) profile pictureFirefly Press@FireflyPress15 Mar 2018
Another stunning review of The Heart of Mars by @paulmagrs thanks so much @JoanneOwen @lovereadingkids 'Ingeniously inventive, involving and wildly witty, this thrilling finale of the Lora Trilogy is sci-fi, but not as you know it…' lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/…
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