Claire Ormsby-Potter

I'm not obsessed with my cat, you're obsessed with my cat • editor at Gollancz/SF Gateway 🚀🦄 • it's totally ok to send me unicorns • she/her

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

Jon: Maybe you should make your Twitter more professional.

Me: Good idea. I'll buy the cat a tie.

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

In case anyone is wondering, I can be found on insta, threads and Bluesky with this same username, although I don't post particularly often.

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

Binfluencer: the only person on the street who knows what bin goes out each week who everyone else copies.

(Credit to my brother @handychimp for that but I can't stop thinking about it)

[Locus Magazine @locusmag]

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[Waterstones @Waterstones]

To celebrate the long-awaited release of @BrandSanderson's WIND AND TRUTH, we're giving away a signed and dedicated Exclusive Edition! Details here: https://t.co/cFyt9yr583

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

Oh hey, come hang out with me!

[Hachette Careers @HachetteCareers]

Don't miss this rare opportunity at @OrionBooks to join the @Gollancz team, who are looking for an Editor to work across one of the most exciting, successful, and prestigious SFF lists in the world!

Please apply here: https://t.co/9LjgBJSRyM

[💂🏻‍♀️👋🏻вєαя🍻🇬🇧™ @BigBearF1]

Reminder the clocks go back an hour tonight

Whilst some will get an extra hour's sleep on Sunday, spare a thought for the National Trust Volunteers who work tirelessly through the night to move the stones back 1 hour at various stone circles around the countryside.

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

How I'm expected to get anything done for the rest of the day with this news is frankly beyond me. SO well earned. Congratulations @chrssgdn and @JenSugden !!

[Gollancz @gollancz]

We are delighted and giddy to announce that HIGH VAULTAGE has been shortlisted for the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction!!! Congratulations to @Victoriocity
@chrssgdn
@JenSugden

Queen Victoria is Very Much Amused. You can be too:
https://t.co/wcmpZLI5ci

[Victoriocity @Victoriocity]

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️High Vaultage is now out in hardback in the USA & Canada! Limited signed editions available. All details via link in bio!

[Victoriocity @Victoriocity]

⚡️‘Joyously funny’ (The Financial Times) 

High Vaultage is released in the USA & Canada on 22nd October! To celebrate, we’re giving one lucky person (based anywhere) a signed edition.

Simply like & repost to enter. Ends Saturday noon UK time. Good luck!

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

@MelJRey

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

Me, having broken into the soup factory, cradling the manager's face very gently: when I say I want vegetable soup I don't mean I want tomato soup with vegetables in, because if I wanted tomato soup I would have tomato soup, what I want is a vegetable soup that tastes like veg...

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

@EwaSR I suspect they meant chilling as in spooky, where my brain was like "yep, that happy pumpkin sure is just chilling there. Good job.*

[Bluemoose Books @Ofmooseandmen]

Who'd have thought 18 years ago when we started Bluemoose Books

We'd have a book launched at The Frankfurt Book Fair.

GHOST MOUNTAIN by @MumblinDeafRo , translated by Andrea O'Brien.

Bloody brilliant.

@thebookseller
@DublinCityofLit

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

@Ofmooseandmen @MumblinDeafRo @thebookseller @DublinCityofLit Oh what a beautiful cover

[The Book Party ®️ C.I.C @itsthebookparty]

This year's #thebookparty is taking place on October 26th at The Old Library in #Birmingham. Bringing #readers and #writers together for a night of bookish fun! We hope to see you there! Tickets https://t.co/CsIOhxtixs #halloween #bookevent #BookCommunity

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

This morning I have laughed in the face of God and the capacity recommendations on my washing machine.

[Claire Ormsby-Potter @okyeahbut]

Boosting

[Phoebe Morgan @Phoebe_A_Morgan]

Frankfurt is a weird time for writers; it can feel like everyone is getting 6 figure deals (they’re not!). To do something for those who aren’t yet at that stage, I’m offering a free critique of your first 10k words & synopsis (fiction only) - to enter RT by midnight Sat! 📚✍️

[David Barnett @davidmbarnett]

I’ve got THE WILDING by Ian McDonald on the way and this so looks like my perfect read for this Halloween. Out now from @gollancz. Details here: https://t.co/vu39j7j4KP