Fiona Brownlee
Publishing consultant. PR & International Rights. Currently working with Canongate. Little,Brown. Hodder. Greystone. Muswell Press. Birlinn. Polygon. Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival. Swim judge. BSL beginner.
- Catch them in Waterstones Nottingham this Thursday and St Andrew’s Festival in St Columba’s Church in Knightsbridge, London on Saturday.
- Lovely morning at Poaches Turned Gamekeepers with former publishers E C Nevin & David Reynolds and former bookseller @richardstrachan.bsky.social talking about their debut crime novels @bloodyscotland.bsky.social @muswellpress.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Fiona BrownleeI hear that Evelyn Clarke is a pen name for two famous writers. Are you one of them? P.S. Just preordered it.
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- Another day. Another preview. Love this one: Bloody Scotland 2025 Blog Tour - Festival Preview jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/08/22/b...
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- A day of two halves. Fabulous feel good event with @jennycolgan.bsky.social concluding with the incredibly moving comment from a teacher who had found herself unable to read but resumed thanks to Jenny’s books. Hurrah! @hodderfiction.bsky.social @edbookfest.bsky.social #MeetMeAtTheSeasideCottages
- Eloquent & intelligent observations from @frediotto.bsky.social @edbookfest.bsky.social regarding #ClimateInjustice @greystonebooks.bsky.social - Use what agency you have. We can vote, ask our MPs to do better and have conversations with our barbers & the board of governors at schools. Great event.
- Mad dash around the bookshops of Edinburgh & Glasgow with the v charming Dugald Bruce-Lockhart, signing copies of #SecondSkin published by @muswellpress.bsky.social. Next stop Linlithgow, Dollar & St Andrews
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- As I was saying. After the headline being all about @liammcilvanney.bsky.social The McIlvanney Prize @bloodyscotland.bsky.social BookBrunch focus is on @ianrankin1.bsky.social @damedenisemina.bsky.social @dougskelton.bsky.social Congratulations one and all
- www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... I love how every reporter highlights different authors when they mention the McIlvanney Prize longlist @bloodyscotland.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Fiona BrownleeA fantastic launch for the 2025 programme which has now been let loose on the world! Tickets at bloodyscotland.com/whats-on
- Always excited to have an author at the Book Festival but particularly excited to welcome @frediotto.bsky.social @greystonebooks.bsky.social to Edinburgh www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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- Reposted by Fiona BrownleeNew review! The Death Of Shame by #AmbroseParry (thx to @canongate.co.uk @fionabrownlee.bsky.social) - "Sarah finds she is not willing to be controlled by men wielding shame, and I cheered at the spark that was lit in her" #books #CrimeFiction #Edinburgh #BookSky
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- Ambrose Parry still on the road. A lovely drive over to see them at Toppings, St Andrews to congratulate them on pub date & @brookmyre.bsky.social on being shortlisted for another major crime fiction prize #Theakstons #TheCrackedMirror #TheDeathofShame
- and finally big love to the most popular man in publishing @davidreynolds1.bsky.social whose debut crime novel #TheLadyinthePark is launched in London this evening. I’m so sorry to be missing it @muswellpress.bsky.social
- Good luck too to @frediotto.bsky.social as she heads to Cheltenham Science Festival to talk #AngryWeather & #ClimateInjustice
- Glasgow launch done with thanks to Waterstones & Drygate Brewery. Ambrose Parry aka @brookmyre.bsky.social & Marisa Haetzman head to The Bookhouse in Broughty Ferry tonight #TheDeathofShame @canongate.co.uk
- And we’re off! Happy publication week to Ambrose Parry aka @brookmyre.bsky.social & Marisa Haetzman. Glasgow tonight then Broughty Ferry & St Andrews on pub date. It’s going to be a busy few weeks…
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- This is so great to see. Some anxious logistics moments getting there but lovely to see the inspirational @frediotto.bsky.social @hayfestival.bsky.social #ClimateInjustice #AngryWeather @greystonebooks.bsky.social
- This is so outrageous. I didn’t believe it when a friend mentioned it on social media. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- McIlvanney Award winning book 2024 now out in paperback…
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- Paraphrasing but loved the comment from Debbie Hicks @readingagency.bsky.social “giving a book to a non reader is like giving chicken to a vegetarian”. I do that a lot! #pubscotconf
- Superb review for #BestFriends in The Times. ‘Best Friends is about pleasant surprises. The biggest surprise of all is that Andrew Meehan isn’t better known. This gentle, off-kilter book, perfectly pitched to be a word-of-mouth summer hit, should change all that.’ Proof that indie publishers rock!
- Apparently we were 4th in the @publishingscotland.bsky.social quiz @ffmaddingcrowd.bsky.social in spite of getting zero points in the final round. Or studying the Scottish curriculum @forumbooks.bsky.social (80s Athena poster for excellent makeup)
- I was so moved reading this @carosanderson.bsky.social & cannot wait to read. I am all too aware that ‘deaf identity, like so much else, exists on a broad spectrum’ & am intrigued about his becoming a father to a hearing child. I hope he’s doing some events in Edinburgh @wnbooks.bsky.social
- My @thebookseller.com #nonfiction Book of the Month for August is this marvellous blend of memoir and cultural history by Raymond Antrobus @wnbooks.bsky.social
- Day 1 of the Publishing Scotland BA conference done. We have so many indie publishers in Scotland (& Corrbridge!) Fantastic to meet them all. Looking forward to Day 2
- On the eve of the @publishingscotland.bsky.social book trade conference it seems entirely appropriate that books by two fantastic Scottish authors won at @thebookseller.com #BritishBookAwards Big congratulations to @lenniesaurus.bsky.social & @radiomukhers.bsky.social We’re all v proud!
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- A friend filled launch for #BestFriends by Andrew Meehan. Glasgow’s literati were out in force & guest appearances by London literary agents, publishers & rock stars…
- Absolutely love this. When I heard people enthusing about the Taylor Swift essay in the Nat 5 English paper yesterday I had no idea it was by one of my authors @joellawriting.bsky.social @muswellpress.bsky.social V proud!
- This month celebrating publication of #BestFriends by Andrew Meehan with a double page spread in The Sunday Post & a fabulous interview on BBC Radio Scotland plus a Times review still to come. Launch party this Thursday in Glasgow as Muswell Press head over the border. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- Another weekend, another great review. This time for @greystonebooks ‘The Secret Life of a Cemetery is no maudlin reflection on death and remembrance…With its fox cubs and anecdotes, (it) allows us a privileged glimpse of Gallot’s world, full of wonder and life. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
- V proud to be working with @greystonebooks.bsky.social & @frediotto.bsky.social using book PR to spread a hugely important message #ClimateInjustice Thanks to @dauntbooks.bsky.social Holland Park for hosting
- Lovely intimate book launch for @heidiamsinckwriter.bsky.social @muswellpress.bsky.social at the gorgeous #RiversideBookshop in London Bridge #OutoftheDark
- If youre coming to the launch of #ClimateInjustice at Daunts Holland Park this evening you might want to listen to this interview with Fredi Otto about her new book published by @greystonebooks www.newscientist.com/podcasts/wee...
- This has been a pretty spectacular Easter weekend with this great review in @thetimes.com to add to @heidiamsinckwriter.bsky.social review coverage for #OutoftheDark published by @muswellpress.bsky.social this Thursday
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- Thank you @iantucker v happy to get this interview into @theobserver before the handover. We’ll miss you! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Fiona BrownleeA date for your diary, crime-writing fans! We'll be launching the 2025 programme at The Golden Lion in Stirling on 12th June at noon. Tickets for all events will go on sale then. PLUS we have a special event with @linwoodbarclay.bsky.social at 1pm. Tickets here: bloodyscotland.com/linwood-barc...
- Finally! I’ve made it over to Bluesky. Just in time for the launch of #ClimateInjustice by @frediotto.bsky.social #OutoftheDark by @heidiamsinckwriter.bsky.social & pbk of the award-winning #CrackedMirror by @brookmyre.bsky.social Come & join me!
