Heather Wood 🦕

Commissioning Editor @BCS | Previously @KoganPage | I should be reading but I’m here instead | #Trailblazers20 | She/Her 🏳️‍🌈

[Heather Wood 🦕 @HeatherWood_]

Pippin at the poll! #bbcnews #dogsatpollingstations

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@samuel_mcqueen I can’t believe one of these exist, let alone two

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@halalltakeaway The way I would read all of this in a heartbeat….

[FBA @FelicityBryan]

We're delighted to share that we are now accepting applications for our 2023 publishing mentorship scheme! Running from July to September, the scheme is aimed at anyone from an underrepresented background who is interested in pursuing a career in the publishing industry 🧵 (1/4)

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Another year, another #LBF2023 complete ✔️ Loved my first time on a stand representing BCS Publishing, armed with many ideas and tote bags!

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@tanuandbooks @LondonBookFair @HarperCollinsUK They’re all gone now 😭😭🥲🥲

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@rachel_l_woods @theaiexchange Yes please!

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@ellle_em Pippin!

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@kaicomedy

[Electra Rhodes - writes a bit/archaeologises a bit @electra_rhodes]

It was six years ago, and my mate, Pink, had just been told he was going to die. He accepted the news with a grace I can only marvel at, but he said he’d a list of things he’d still like to do.

We sat in a pub one night and read it over. Eight things? Four months? Ok. Deal.

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@hamzajahanzeb Dumplings!

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@AHSchoolLibrary @BooksandChokers I know it's Amazon but it looks like they have a French edition of Invisible Sparks available https://t.co/HiLo28mFbw

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@literaryfey @MarindaOnline £17K in 2017

[T.S. @TeeEss]

Me whenever I meet other publishing people:

[Ella @ellamharold]

If watching activists recklessly damage a beautiful, irreplaceable painting makes you feel angry, well good - that's the whole point.

Now swap 'activists' with 'capitalists', 'damage' with 'destroy' and 'painting' with 'planet', and up the stakes by a million. Isn't it obvious?

[Heather Wood 🦕 @HeatherWood_]

@KatAliceDunn I'm sorry you had to experience that, sometimes people *suck*. Do you have any recommendations for noise-cancelling headphones btw? 😊