🍃Hazel Compton 🍃

She/Her 🧜‍♀️ SL @gollancz 🧚 LL children's @bathnovelaward @guppypublishing, @chickenhousebooks @adventuresfiction 📖 @WritersCentre Escalator alumn

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

@VTichkova It really motivates you doesn't it! I love entering comps for exactly this reason 🥰😅

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

@sophielflynn Hah! I did this last week. It was so refreshing!

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

@sophielflynn Squee I'm both excited and nervous! Haha

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

@jesspopps Not as delightful as this darkly delicious book!

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

Hooked from the first chapter, everyone needs this book! Happy book birthday @jesspopps !

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

@debbielnuttall We absolutely need a catch up!

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

Congratulations to all- especially the wondrous @debbielnuttall !!!

[Times/Chicken House Writing Competition @TimesCHPrize]

Calling all #TimesChickenHouse competition 2024 entrants!📣 The LONGLIST has been decided!

CONGRATULATIONS to all who have been longlisted, we had a tough job narrowing down to the final list.

Head to our blog find out more👉 https://t.co/OZD9xVCijH

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

I didn't get a like,but reading this thread was heartening regardless, and I had a lot of fun pitching and reading other's work!

[Darley Anderson Agency @DA_Agency]

(1/6) 🧵Thank you everyone who participated, promoted and pitched in yesterday's #PitchtoDA event! We were bowled over by the quality of pitches we received and have had so much fun reading them all...

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

#amquerying #writersoftwitter #WritingCommunity

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

BRIDESMAIDS × THAT NIGHT

A new love, a Cornish paradise, and a waspish hen do. The maid of honour kills the bride, but when everyone has a secret to hide, it may be easier to get away with it than she thought.

​#Lgbtq #crime #thriller #adult #PitchToDA

[FitchersBird @tasha_mcshannon]

PEAKY BLINDERS X ALICE IN WONDERLAND X ADDIE LA RUE

A speakeasy singer is fated to die, but when her son activates a strange device her destiny is changed, forcing her into an arms-race against Glasgow’s dangerous gangs to harness magic that will bring her son home.

#PitchtoDA

[Kristen Renee is querying with a quill pen 🪶 @kristenrenay]

Practical Magic x Honey Witch

Two sisters develop the ability to sense love and are able to determine a person’s true love… for everyone except themselves.

Cozy fantasy/romantasy based in a PNW-inspired magical realism setting with Folklore/Evermore vibes ✨

#PitchToDA

[FitchersBird @tasha_mcshannon]

THE GILDED WOLVES x THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE
When her son tears a hole between the human and fairy realms, a speakeasy singer will rage against Fate to save him from the clutches of ancient Gods. #XpoNorth

[Arti @ArtiRajput__]

Absolutely love this line. Making me itch to get my hands on the WIP!

[Arti @ArtiRajput__]

Always smashing it with your one liners Hazel ;)

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

@CharlotteOwen86 Thank you! Good luck! 50 mins left

[Arti @ArtiRajput__]

Drug-fuelled backpacker nights on the streets of Melbourne aren't enough to wipe Naina's memory clean of being ghosted by her Dad. 👻

🍃 A story about finding unexpected love in hostel kitchens, in Melbourne bars, & where love already exists.🍴

#FoundFamily #PitchToDA #RomCom

[Arti @ArtiRajput__]

It’s 2016 and for Naina, on the surface life in Australia is all sun, suss boys and being ghosted by her dad, but she’s so focused on her London past that she is sabotaging her future.

#PitchToDA #RomCom #FoundFamily #AustraliaBooks #LondonBooks

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

THE GUEST LIST x BRIDESMAIDS
She's tolerated her waspish best friend for years and weathered the boarding-school friends. But when falling for the groom's sister at the hen do ends in a dead body, things may have gone too far. ​ #Lgbtq #crime #thriller #adult ​#PitchToDA

[🍃Hazel Compton 🍃 @HJCompton]

@AbigaleWriting Oooh I love your Spotify playlist inclusion!