No long-running jokes about becoming a shut-in hermit writer today, I’m afraid – instead I’m just going to dive straight in and announce that I’m now represented by Jonathan Villegas of Olswanger Literary!
All right, that reveal might have been spoiled by the title of this post, but I still expect you to at least pretend to show shock and delight, not least because Jonathan is a diligent agent who’s dedicated to promoting LGTBQ+ authors as well as authors of colour. I feel incredibly fortunate to be rep’d by him.
Of course this is extremely exciting news, and together we’re already starting work on my latest project. There will be much, much more to follow. To mark this latest milestone, my good friend Alex Goldberg and I took some new author pictures this weekend, one of which will soon be on the main page of this website…
Sadly it won’t be this exciting action shot of me caught mid-word, but it will include me wearing the same pink eyeshadow. (By this point it’s the closest thing I have to a registered trademark.)
I’m also delighted because my good friend and editing partner Christiane Michaelis has just landed an agent too! We’ve spent the past couple years editing her amazing YA novel together, and it’s so wonderful that we’re now both represented. Her novel – which focuses on the climate crisis – deserves all the success.
AND OTHER NEWS
Things are certainly rosy this month, because I’ve been longlisted for the Leapfrog Prize. Anonymous judging is still ongoing so I can’t reveal which title is mine, but I’m very pleased to have made the 11-person selection. Fingers crossed for the shortlist!
In a bizarre and also fantastic twist, Christiane has also been longlisted for the same prize, under the Young Adult category! This can only point to some kind of shared destiny, which is unfortunate for Christiane because I fully intend to go out in a blaze of glory. Perhaps by being catapulted into the side of a national monument.
That’s all for now, but I’ll be sharing more soon – so be sure to quit your otherwise unimportant job so you can spend day after day clicking refresh on this page. What else are you going to do, figure out how RSS feeds work?
No one knows how RSS feeds work.
– Redfern