Jenny Mustard
• WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE (‘25)
• OKAY DAYS (‘23)
• on youtube (500k)
• literary agent: Peter Straus at RCW
• film agent: Emily Hayward-Whitlock at TAP
• a swede in london
- For Stylist, I wrote about female friendships on the verge of romance: www.stylist.co.uk/relationship... @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
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- Day 4 of my 7-day birthday extravaganza: Ridiculously long brunch, crossword puzzles, two pots of Earl Grey, Swedish '40s music
- Tomorrow! Nice weather, good company, a glass of wine why not Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/its-hardba... @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- Thrilled to be a guest on one of my favourite podcasts: Monocle Radio’s MEET THE WRITERS with the wonderful @georginagodwin.bsky.social Listen to the episode: open.spotify.com/episode/0522... @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- Tonight! Foyles Charing Cross Road! www.foyles.co.uk/events/jenny... @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
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- It’s my publication day! What a time to be alive, indeed @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
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- May 1st! With wonderful It’s Hardback Out There at favourite bookshop Libreria Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/its-hardba...
- For the Evening Standard, I wrote about Stockholm: www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/tr... @thelondonstandard.bsky.social
- Join me and Dakota Warren at Foyles Charing Cross! Tickets: www.foyles.co.uk/events/jenny... @foylesforbooks.bsky.social
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- foyles charing cross! april 28th! hope to see you: www.foyles.co.uk/events/jenny... @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- it hasn’t happened until it’s on publishers marketplace because yes! overjoyed to share that WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE will be published in the US by Pegasus this october! heartfelt thanks to Pegasus, & to my smashing agent Peter Straus at RCW
- i loved maggie nelson’s new book (to no one’s surprise). written with more or less perfect emotional pitch: melancholia balanced with humour, grief and pain tempered by joy. full of warmth, wisdom, and weirdness.
- Reposted by Jenny Mustardpics from Sceptre Salon! we heard from the wildly talented authors on their 2025 list, including superstars below: @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, @jennymustard.bsky.social, @gabrielflynn.bsky.social, @arifa.bsky.social, @elfodongo.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- taking a severely needed breather. see you on monday: 4 days, 3 romcoms, 1 french musical, 3 novels, 14 coupes of champagne, and my own weight in popcorn from now.
- the wonderful @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social ‘s THE ALTERNATIVES is out in paperback today a truly unique and exciting novel @oneworldbooks.bsky.social
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- current (wonderful) company
- this is supposed to be my high priority stack. i look away a second and it somehow swells.
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- when visiting 15 bookshops on tuesday, in a remarkable show of self-discipline, i came home with only these. starting the levy tonight, a glass of wine, an empty flat, blueberries. i’ve read 1 of her novels before, but the memoirs are a whole other species of text, no? @picadorbooks.bsky.social
- yesterday’s results: 15 bookshops 15 proofs of WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE 1 david 30 bags of horrible swedish sweets (warning labelled) 1 tofu rice salad 4 buses 2 cups of black coffee 1 cup of black tea 476 layers of clothing countless charming & intelligent booksellers @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- just finished the dystopian coming-of-age THE MORNINGSIDE by @teaobreht.bsky.social – a thrilling, magical, beautifully written novel. i flew through it, but expect it will stay will me for a long time. thank you @letticefranklin.bsky.social & @wnbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jenny MustardIt's blue Monday so i decided to make toast at 10.20 like a true decadent & then this exciting book post arrived, thus affirming my choice of decadence & all future choices of decadence for 2025 ✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social @clairek12.bsky.social @jennymustard.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- quite the enticing delivery today. might just simultaneously read all three because frankly i don’t know where to start. thank you peninsula press, you have done it again. @therakha.net
- bookcase reorganisation, before & after (took 2 blue ikea bags to the charity shop) before you come for me: i know in which stack every single book is. i can find them in 2 secs flat. also have 100 or so other books milling around the flat, and those are sometimes a bit harder to locate.
- awfully inviting
- fiction to look forward to according to the one and only @rickoshea.bsky.social in the @irishindependent.bsky.social
- thank you to @sweetoblivion.bsky.social and @thejournal.ie for looking out for WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
- today’s itinerary:
- happy holidays, rest up now and eat a lot.
- okay my at home writing retreat (finished yesterday): 7 days 6 writing sessions, 1 reading session 11,623 words i'm a bit like a dog with a bone when it comes to writing so what i want is to keep going. but taking a break today. then 4 more days of writing before christmas.
- very exciting mail today! i love megan hunter’s work and am beyond eager to read her new novel – pitched as mothering sunday meets the hours which frankly is quite the knockout pitch, no? out in april thank you @picadorbooks.bsky.social
- fifth and final day of my writing retreat, because tonight, blessedly, david is coming home. i don't really care about anything else today, so will sit and write at my leasure, for my pleasure.
- at home writing retreat | DAY 4: re-emerging from my room of one’s own 2,136 words and 2,136 braincells lighter. now, i feel like eating a lot. taking a walk. maybe watching some reality tv.
- day four of my writing retreat. still very far from cabin fever i have to say. enjoying life here in my bubble. kind of wish i could go one more week? (with david here though, i’m over being home alone.) it’s good for my brain to monotask. i wish i got to do it more often.
