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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency
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Literary, film and television agency representing a broad range of authors, screenwriters, playwrights, directors and producers. https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/
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Graeme Armstrong @graemearmstrong.bsky.social · 16h
Pre-order #Raveheart at @waterstones.bsky.social online for 25% off for the next 3 days only! ⚠️

Release: 23/04/26 👾

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Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social · 15h
You loved Isobel's Wedding and wanted more! Read the final instalment in my short story collection set in the Caribbean The Season of Change. I hope you like how things turn out for her 💖
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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 15h
NEWS: @lucaveste.bsky.social returns to @avonbooks.bsky.social in a four book deal! The first two titles, LIAR LIAR and TELL TALE, are set for publication in Spring 2026 and early 2027.
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Luca Veste returns to Avon with exciting four-book deal — Blake Friedmann
Avon has acquired four novels to launch a new Liverpool-based crime series by Luca Veste. The first two titles, LIAR LIAR and TELL TALE, are scheduled for publication in Spring 2026 and early 2027, re...
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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 18h
COSTANZA by @rachelblackmore.bsky.social‬ is published in the US today! This dizzying, sensual novel brings to life a feminist icon who has been written out of history.

‪Available now from @dialoguepublishing.bsky.social‬‬: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/costanza-r...
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Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social · 2d
Very much looking forward to finally visiting the fab Bridge Books and hopefully meeting lots of readers 😍
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Bridge Books Dromore @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social · 2d
I have three fabulous events lined up for #IrishBookWeek, which runs from Sat 18th-Sat 25th October! An evening with Wendy Erskine, A Curry Up and Read Silent Book Club and an evening with the legend @sheilawriter.bsky.social Tickets available for all three 👇
www.ticketsource.co.uk/bridge-books
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 22h
This Saturday!

Come say hello and if you bring or buy a copy of #MandalayBook I’ll draw you a picture too! x
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 13d
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD!

I'm taking part in a panel with other women food writers for this year's South East London BookFest.

Come join us at 2pm on Sat 18 Oct!

l'll be alongside Romy Gill,
Pary Baban from Nandine, @foodstories.bsky.social and
The Flygerians!

Free tickets here! 🎟️ tiny.cc/food
A collage of the bright yellow cover of my book ‘MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen’, me in a burgundy ‘Original Beef of Chicagoland’ T-shirt (from the tv show The Bear), holding a plate full of Tokyo Disneyland cakes, the poster for the SE London BookFest, and the area around Corner Corner (between Canada Water and Surrey Quays) which is where our panel will be.
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 3d
It's #BookshopDay! What better way to celebrate than by buying my new debut novel, #thedogwalkersdetectiveagency? Here's some of the nice things that clever people have said about it www.penguin.co.uk/books/469431... #cosycrime #firsttimeauthor #michaelhoganauthor #crimefiction
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 3d
To celebrate the publication of my debut novel - and partly just to amuse myself, tbh - I made a #DogwalkersDetectiveAgency playlist. Songs mentioned in/pertinent to/atmospherically apt for the book. Autumnal, seaside and woodland vibes. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/playlist/7HR...
The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 2d
Tell you what's autumnal, cosy and Sunday afternoonish: my debut novel #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency. Out now. There's £1 off RRP at Guardian Books, 80p off at Amazon/WHSmith. Order links & details here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/469431... They've got a lot of leads. But can they collar a killer? 🐶🚨🔍📕
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 4d
Cosy crime! Duffel-coasted, curly-haired hero! Hot chemistry! Windmills! I had a hoot talking about the magic of Jonathan Creek (and its connection to my own debut novel, The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency) with @jnraeside.bsky.social on @boxdelightspod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Jonathan Creek
Podcast Episode · Box of Delights · 10/10/2025 · 21m
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 5d
"There’s no such thing as a ‘dog person’ – as I found out when I got a dog." To mark launch day of my debut novel, #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency (published today by @MichaelJBooks), I wrote for @the-independent.com about the different types of dogwalker 🦮🚨🔍📕 www.independent.co.uk/life-style/d...
There’s no such thing as a ‘dog person’ – as I found out when I got a dog
With its cliques, politics and social “petiquette”, Michael Hogan reveals why your local park has become the new schoolgates and how peoples pooches are the best indicator for their personalities. For...
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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 5d
THE DEVIL’S KNIGHT, P. W. Finch’s latest gripping medieval epic, is out now via @canelobooks.bsky.social & @bolindaoriginals.bsky.social!

An invincible warrior. A living saint. A demonic spirit. A Holy Land fallen into darkness - will Thurstan succeed on his quest?
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 5d
To celebrate launch day for my debut novel - and partly just to amuse myself, tbh - I made a #DogwalkersDetectiveAgency playlist. Songs mentioned in, pertinent to or atmospherically apt for the book. Autumnal, seaside and woodland vibes. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/playlist/7HR...
The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency
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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 5d
They’ve got a lot of leads... but can they collar a killer?

THE DOGWALKER’S DETECTIVE AGENCY by @michaelhogan100.bsky.social‬ is out today!

This warm witty murder mystery is perfect for dog lovers and fans of THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB.

Available from @michaeljbooks.bsky.social‬: shorturl.at/knJGY
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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 5d
It’s paperback publication day for ICE TOWN by Will Dean!

When a deaf teenager goes missing, Tuva knows she has to help. But as more people disappear, it becomes clear that there’s a killer at work…

Out now from @hodderbooks.bsky.social: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ice-...
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 6d
Lordy, I'm a Delia book of the month. She's on the board of Norwich City FC but still. Out tomorrow! www.deliaonline.com/whats-new/20...
Books of the Month October 2025
Our book choices for October
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 5d
It's publication day for my debut novel #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency! There's £1 off RRP at Guardian Bookshop, 80p off at Amazon/WH Smith. Order links here. Social shares mutts appreciated! 🐶🔍🐾📕https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/469431/the-dogwalkers-detective-agency-by-hogan-michael/9781405977951
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KarenKisreading @karenkisreading.bsky.social · 7d
🐶I’m thrilled to be sharing my non spoiler thoughts about debut novel, The Dogwalkers’ Detective Agency by @michaelhogan100.bsky.social on the eve of publication day.🐶

mentoringmumof2bookreviews.home.blog/2025/10/08/t...
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Rossiter Books @rossiterbooks.bsky.social · 7d
Coming soon...
Peter James in Monmouth on Saturday 18th October
Tickets available in store and on 01600 775 572 or via this link:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/rossiterbook...
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Rossiter Books @rossiterbooks.bsky.social · 21d
Let the countdown begin....not too long until our evening with @peterjamesauthor.bsky.social in Monmouth

The Hawk is Dead
There's a killer in Buckingham Palace - this is Grace's highest profile case yet...

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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 7d
Two days until publication of my debut novel, #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency, published by @michaeljbooks.bsky.social. Preorders are open and there's £1 off the RRP at Guardian Bookshop (or 80p off at Amazon/WH Smith). Just saying! #firsttimeauthor #cosycrime guardianbookshop.com/the-dogwalke...
The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency
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Graeme Armstrong @graemearmstrong.bsky.social · 8d
Massive thanks to Places for People for organising a run of Edinburgh #StreetBelonging anti-violence events!

Brilliant effort from the youngsters in Craigroyston and Portobello today 👏🏻
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 8d
Thrilled to bits with this review in @Independent. My debut novel, #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency, is out this Thursday, published by @michaeljbooks.bsky.social. Preorders open now! An ideal gift, like it says here! Now my words, theirs!
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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 11d
In lieu of flowers, Ann’s family asks for donations to be made to The Book Trade Charity (BTBS): btbs.enthuse.com/cf/celebrati...
Celebrating the life of Ann Granger
In Memory of Ann Granger 12 July 1939 – 7 September 2025 All of us at Blake Friedmann are deeply saddened by the death of Ann Granger, a much-loved client of the agency for many decades. Booksellers,
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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 11d
All of us at Blake Friedmann are deeply saddened by the death of Ann Granger, a much-loved client of the agency for many decades.

You can read more about her life here: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/in-memo...
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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 11d
Thrilled that the mighty @graziauk.bsky.social has reviewed #thedogwalkersdetectiveagency. Probably the only time I'll appear next to Ian McEwan. Anyway, published by @michaeljbooks.bsky.social on 9 Oct. Preorders open now and help hugely. Link in replies and bio #firsttimeauthor #cosycrime
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