Jo Unwin @jounwin Twitter profile

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Jo Unwin

2 years

Shall I tell you some of the things I would truly love to find? These are pretty much all applicable to fiction and narrative non-fiction

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

Neighbour’s kid just jumped over the garden wall and came into our kitchen with a lovely card he’d made and I didn’t have any clothes on and now he’ll be traumatised for life

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This is the face of someone who has nicked a young woman’s pizza in the park. She’s now having to wait while we get a new one. And I am not entertaining her by throwing balls. Grrrrrr

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4 years

Guys one day your exhausting little toddler will grow up and make you dinner. It’s ALL WORTH IT

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4 years

I’ve just come into the office to pick up a few things and the grief of what we’re all going through has hit me like a train. Don’t underestimate the shock of these times and don’t underestimate what it takes for you to manage your way through it. 🌏❤️🤜🏻

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4 years

When someone responds to your carefully considered response to their work like this Why won't you read my book jo you lazy little cunt? You tend to think you might have been right to decline the opportunity to work with them

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OH MY GOD ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩

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Jo Unwin

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5 years

I have just called a lemsip a Lemony Sippet and I am so delighted with myself I must be v ill 🍋 #diagnostics

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

Once again: submissions addressed to Dear Sir to a currently all-female agency will be automatically deleted. You’re considering employing us - don’t you want to know who we are??

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

One of my clients doesn’t like being sent flowers as she think they’re gendered. I think they’re gendered but I love being sent flowers. Do you like being sent flowers fellas?

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@jounwin

4 years

Someone's just withdrawn a submission because I'm too interested in puppies, gardening and jigsaws and therefore can't be very interested in literary agency work.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

I went out on a date this time 30 years ago that still isn’t over.

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@jounwin

3 years

After an extensive vetting procedure I am delighted to have appointed m’junior colleague. Slightly concerned that she’ll be too relaxed in the role.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

2 years

Want to see what I wore to my darling niece’s wedding? I felt SMASHING and it was a brilliant brilliant day

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Jo Unwin

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4 years

VERY FEW OF MY CLIENTS HAVE CREATIVE WRITING DEGREES - PLEASE DON'T THINK YOU NEED ONE (sorry that was accidental caps lock, not shouting)

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4 years

Michael do you need an agent

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3 years

Came across again this last night

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Jo Unwin

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2 years

Fixed the fucked freezer Used a spare swab from a lateral flow test to unblock the little drainage hole and if that’s not Christmassy what is

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@jounwin

3 years

I sent myself flowers as a surprise and I HAD totally forgotten and they ARE absolutely gorgeous and I DO deserve them

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

2 years

There’s a world Bollard association

World Bollard Association™

@WorldBollard

2 years

Bollards save lives AND bring immense joy and happiness to the world. #WorldBollardAssociation

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

My submissions are open again on Monday 7th January and I’m very much in the mood to find publishers for new authors. Pass it on.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

It seems to me outrageous that there has been no public moment to mark these thousands of deaths. Where are the minute’s silences? The memorials. The services of remembrance? Who is leading this nation through its grief?

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

Can anyone think of a job for say a female of say my age and experience that can be done lying down with their eyes shut?

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

This poem won’t leave me be

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

Has everyone seen this?

Josh McConnell

@joshmcconnell

4 years

Finally a purpose for the internet

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@jounwin

3 years

A reminder to my friends/those of you who are dealing with toddlers and pulling out your hair: they do grow up and they make you ramen after a very hard day

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

I love this little film

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

Next week can we applaud the post people and the supermarket checkout staff and the transport teams and all the other people who are making themselves vulnerable but are carrying on anyway? 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

Eat my shorts

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

She’s my sister and she’s a Dame and I am more proud of ⁦ @juliaunwin ⁩ for her service to civil society than I can possibly say

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

6 years

Mum and dad’s 63rd wedding anniversary. Look at them. In their early 20s. Only ten years out of a horrible world war. She an orphan refugee. Brave brilliant people 🥂

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

I don’t think characters have to be likeable to be relatable

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

Unpublished authors! My submissions inbox is open again. Look at at the *superb* writers I represent and do get in touch if you’d be interested

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

2 years

I am so very thrilled for one of my oldest friends. God she deserves this.

BAFTA

@BAFTA

2 years

An incredible moment for Joanna Scanlan as she wins the Award for Leading Actress #EEBAFTAs

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

Thank God they’re safe ❤️❤️❤️

Nigel Farage

@Nigel_Farage

4 years

EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE OF BEACH LANDING BY MIGRANTS Shocking invasion on the Kent Coast taken this morning.

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@jounwin

5 years

God he’s excellent

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

5 years

"I really don't see the point of comedy unless there's something underpinning it." Chris Morris says satire is not about being "slapped on the back by the orthodox elite", it's about wanting to "change something".

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

8 months

Bloody hell - reading a fantastic submission and just 🙏🏻ing no other agent has seen it yet because I don’t like having to break my competitors’ legs

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

She has Aspergers and this is a disgraceful way to write about a neurodiverse teenager. To my mind @GretaThunberg is power (as well as hope and beauty and intelligence). Please apologise and delete @spikedonline

spiked

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“There is something chilling about Greta Thunberg. Her monotone voice. Her warnings of hellfire. Her cult-like claim that the End of Days is coming. She is proof that the millenarian green movement is messing up the next generation”, says Brendan O’Neill

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

7 months

Fucking hell sack him

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

7 months

Richard Madeley asks British Palestinian MP Layla Moran if she or her family knew about Hamas's attack before it happened #GMB

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

Yup it’s come to this

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

Love this. Started in a whole new industry in my mid-40s and now run my own successful company. A woman's life doesn't end at 40 – so why does society make us feel that way? | Women | The Guardian

A woman's life doesn't end at 40 – so why does society make us feel that way? | Eleanor Mills

My generation broke down barriers and succeeded on our own terms. Now we refuse to fade politely into the background, says Noon founder Eleanor Mills

www.theguardian.com

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

Fair

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this but as someone who didn’t work in publishing until her 40s, you can do it.

💐 Maurice 💐

@MauriceRuffin

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I don't know who needs to hear this but as someone who didn't publish his first book until his 40s, you can do it.

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@jounwin

6 years

I hope this is real. What a kind thing to do.

Ben King 🌏

@benking01

6 years

Year 13 leavers' day at school today. Apparently these notes were left in the girls' toilets.

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4 years

This one stood staring at me long enough to find my phone, unlock it, find the camera, take a picture... but then legged it because too vain or chicken to see the result

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

6 years

If someone addresses their submission to JULA Dear Sirs I will just delete. Only women work here at the moment. If you're hoping to employ us as your professional representatives you should have some idea of who we are.

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@jounwin

3 years

I’m reading @MichaelRosenYes ‘Many Different Kinds of Love’ and am struck by this poem. Remembering loved ones in Intensive Care and the devotion shown by nursing staff, my ♥️ is full

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

Writing a book is incredibly hard. I had a go this afternoon, really gave it a shot, at least an hour, nothing. No dice.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

8 months

I’m representing a brilliant author who told me that she approached me because she saw this tweet. So I’m RTing

Jo Unwin

@jounwin

2 years

8) I'm especially looking to champion authors who feel that 'people like them don't become authors'. Whoever you are, if you're serious about writing, I'd love to hear from you

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

She really is lovely and this is brave

ITV News

@itvnews

5 years

"Not many people have asked if I’m ok ... it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes." Meghan reveals to ITV's @tombradby the intense media spotlight has left her struggling to cope while becoming a mum #HarryAndMeghan

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1 year

Astonishing story ‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood

‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my...

In 1976, Suzanne Heywood’s father decided to take the family on a three-year sailing ‘adventure’ – and then just kept going. It was a journey into fear, isolation and danger …

www.theguardian.com

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

Does anyone else find the PM describing their system as whack-a-mole really unseemly in a pandemic?

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

Love this woman

Rachael Swindon

@Rachael_Swindon

5 years

Oh my days. A sensational truth bomb on #BBCQT tonight. They’ll be vetting the audiences in the future.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

Young women you are all so lovely but will you stop doing that weird thing with your mouth for a selfie

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@jounwin

4 years

I am reading an ABSOLUTELY EXCEPTIONAL MANUSCRIPT and I don’t think many other people have ever read it and I feel like Howard Carter

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

Going home early to cook for mum’s 86th birthday Look how glam she is

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

Talking of angels out-angelling each other: I’ve been shocked in recent days by three separate young people in publishing - who I would support at the barricades - being rudely dismissive of people of my age and older.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

I can't stop watching this. I don't believe it was set up or pre-prepared. Instinctive kindness. There's not enough of it about.

Scottacular

@Scottcrates

4 years

Try to imagine Donald Trump in this moment and his reaction. Seriously. November 3rd, choose which America you want.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

Found this for your viewing pleasure

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

Dear @thebookseller - why isn’t there an award for romantic/comedy novelists at the #nibbies ? Could you explain why crime/thriller is honoured but the best in women’s commercial fiction isn’t? Thanks.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

WHERE IS SHE?!?!

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

"A lot of people are going to change their behaviour." Professor Robert Kelly tells Sky News he thinks South Korea will keep the #coronavirus outbreak under control, after the country reported more than 160 new cases. Get the latest on #COVID19 here:

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5 years

Oh will you look what happened overnight! Couldn’t be prouder if *i’d* hatched them

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

7 years

If there is a more patronising misogynist phrase than smart cookie I'd like to hear it

Piers Morgan

@piersmorgan

7 years

Great piece on @IvankaTrump in @FT . Known her a long time; very smart cookie & important voice in father's ear.

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@jounwin

5 years

So very proud and happy about this ❤️❤️❤️

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

5 years

Shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year—sponsored by @AmazonPub —are… @CWAgencyUK ’s @AgentSophieL , @BrightAgencyUK ’s @Arabella_Stein , @CurtisBrown ’s @Taffyagent , JULA’s @jounwin and @AitkenAlexander ’s @ChrisWellbelove #Nibbies ✒️📚🏆

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

I’m hoping all you furloughed publishing people who are spending this time finally finishing the book they’ve been writing have me in their sights. And yes I do mean you.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

6 years

Before and after I recommend ++++

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

Just wrote the date on something and it's 4.3.21 and that's like amazing and I'm like blown away and totally gonna have to lie down for the day because i mean what are the chances etc

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 months

Is anyone looking for an agent for a truly immersive novel with an original and confident voice because that’s what I want to represent now? Something I’ve never read before, but that my heart recognises. That’s the brief!

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

Oh my god I’ve had my call-up papers and it fully makes me want to cry

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

I have the most amazing #StPatricksDay2020 news. The glorious clever funny fierce and UTTERLY SPLENDID @siobhni is writing a book and has asked me to represent her. WATCH OUT WORLD!

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

If an agent doesn’t represent screenwriters, and responds to a submission of a screenplay by saying so, I don’t think ‘ok fuck you’ is a very nice response. It’s like if you go to British Telecom because you’ve got a leaking tap.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

Today I am launching Operation Get a Fucking Grip as I'd like to be able to do my trousers up again one day Morning!

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

2 years

my submissions are currently closed

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

2 years

. @BorisJohnson could earn “north of £1m” if he writes a memoir, with agents predicting international interest as well as success at home. Read more:

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

Just remembered top top #fleabag writing Claire: Putting pine nuts on your salad doesn’t make you a grownup. Fleabag: Fucking does.

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@jounwin

4 years

Woman in the otherwise unusually quiet street shouting TRACY!! TRACY!! .... TRACY!! Think she’s perhaps ex-Starbucks. Working from home.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

Of course she does! Shortlisted twice and now she’s won. Totally deserved - @ninastibbe is the funniest writer we’ve got. Nina Stibbe wins 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Nina Stibbe wins 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Reasons to be Cheerful wins prize for author after two previous shortlistings

www.irishtimes.com

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@jounwin

4 years

FIVE *POUNDS* OF BUTTER????!!!??!??

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@jounwin

3 years

Have been waiting anxiously all day for the response to an email which I have just seen I hadn't sent.

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@jounwin

4 years

It’s going to be ok

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

Oh another (male) author is distressed to have it pointed out that we are not all Sirs. Maybe I should ignore but if you’re submitting to agencies a little research goes a long way

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@jounwin

4 years

I think one of the worst disappointments is deep romance/sex dream and then you realise you just need a wee

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

When this book came to me on submission I thought ‘this book was written for me’ and I was a 54 year old white woman. It’s a book for everyone: for people who want or need to see, and for people who want or need to be seen

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams review – timely and important

Hailed as the black Bridget Jones, this is a moving and entertaining portrait of love and race today

www.theguardian.com

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

we keep having to hear the phrase “baby steps” from a man who tends not to stick around to see them God she's good

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

2 years

Interesting how often authors use the word 'smirk' when describing someone who's supposed to be attractive. To me a smirk is instantly repellant, but clearly not to everyone

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

VERY excited and proud to announce @Bridgeanne as my new client for her funny gentle novel SMALL MIRACLES about three nuns who win the lottery. It’s EVERYTHING I could have wanted in these dark old days.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

2 years

Here it is.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

3 years

I’m pleased to see m’junior colleague bringing her breakfast into work

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

LOADS OF THE AUTHORS I REPRESENT WERE FIRST PUBLISHED IN THEIR 40s AND 50s -❤️⭐️❤️- keep going @Monicahbalt

Monica Balt 🇳🇱🇸🇪🇿🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇾

@monicahbalt

5 years

Book Twitter, tell me this isn’t so! I do hope I get some replies to this, because silence speaks volumes. Why can’t life begin after 40 for a writer?

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

It's this. I've never known a better reason to have amassed 19,000 followers.

Don’t Break the Chain

Guest post by Amanda Berriman, author of Home It’s Wednesday 4th March 2015, Day 59. I’m up at 5am, breathing in lemon and ginger steam from the mug warming my hands and staring at my laptop screen…

jounwin.wordpress.com

Jo Unwin

@jounwin

5 years

I'm about to post a guest blog on my website which I'd love everyone to read. And I really do mean everyone.

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

What a voice

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

I've now been told that *all* the many *different* barcodes on my testing kit are invalid and I need to reorder. To repeat - I'm not ill, was doing this as part of a volunteer programme, but if this counts as one of the kits that was 'deployed' yesterday then we need a recount.

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@jounwin

3 years

M’junior colleague has established where the toilets are and is showing real promise in the wandering round with a bucket area

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

1 year

I’d pay you for it

Kevin W.

@Brink_Thinker

1 year

Would you do it?

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Jo Unwin

@jounwin

4 years

‘Sue, you’re shouting at tea’ is exactly what Twitter is

Yorkshire Tea

@YorkshireTea

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@sulaAlice Sue, you're shouting at tea. Please do look after yourself and try to be kind to others. We're going to mute you now.

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5 years

Can I recommend this for most members of your family and anyone you’re stuck for?

Charlie Brooker

@charltonbrooker

6 years

Inside Black Mirror is out 1st Nov the UK (ie tomorrow) and on Nov 20th in the USA. This magic link will transport you to your local edition:

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2 years

Not long til I go on holiday, then I've got some work travel, some editing and reading at home, but then on the *1st September* I'm reopening my submissions 🧵

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Jo Unwin

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3 years

Dusty pink platform crocs. Yes or no?