Michelle Hauck

@michelle4laughs.bsky.social

Literary Agent with Storm Literary Agency | Represents MG, YA, and Adult Fiction | Currently CLOSED to select queries | she/her https://linktr.ee/michellehauck

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senator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.

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If CBS brass doesn't now fire Pelley, they look like they'll tolerate any level of insubordination. If they do fire him, they will spur additional upheaval that will drive away viewers and advertisers. So Weiss is in an impossible position, which was entirely predictable and is a gosh-darned shame

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

"Bari loves this institution," Bilton told staffers at one point during the highly contentious meeting. "She loves '60 Minutes.'"

"She's murdering '60 Minutes,'" Pelley countered. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she's doing exactly that."

This story is based on audio of the meeting obtained by Status. A CBS News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, but Pelley's stunning series of remarks left staffers on the newsmagazine wondering if he will resign.

In the meeting, Pelley pointed out that Weiss has "no qualifications for her job" and told Bilton "you have slender qualifications for this job." Pelley, the former anchor of "CBS Evening News," noted that the changes Weiss has made to that program "have been catastrophic."

"So why should we expect any of this is going to be any better?" Pelley asked Bilton.

Bilton tried to move the meeting along, but Pelley pressed on, challenging the new executive producer’s references in interviews to “60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt’s vision for the program as he outlined his plans.

"I have another question," the veteran journalist said. "Did you at any point work with Don Hewitt, telling everybody about what Don Hewitt thought, and what his inspiration was? I worked for Don Hewitt from 1999 to 2004 and Lesley Stahl probably worked with him for 30 years. Just wondering how you have such deep insight?"

Bilton replied that he was simply quoting Hewitt’s own words from past interviews and asked Pelley whether he had any other questions. Pelley said that he did.

"I have many questions," Pelley responded. "What was wrong with Sharyn Alfonsi?"

I had to sign this one! @timhoelscherauthor.com's story is one of those tales that unsettle you, stick with, and you go to sleep thinking about! Can't wait to disturb editors with this epic horror!

Tim Hoelscher@timhoelscherauthor.com · 3mo ago

Thrilled to announce that I’ve signed with @michelle4laughs.bsky.social at @stormliterary.bsky.social to bring my adult horror novel THIS IS A PLACE OF ENDINGS to readers. I knew finding the right agent would be a long journey, but I couldn’t imagine a more rewarding end than to work with Michelle!

Agented anniouncement for Tim Hoelscher.

We have to smash the suffocating instinct to pretend that this is all normal. Nothing here is normal. You are living through the most open, shameless corruption of government in American history.

Trump's slush fund would give nearly $2 BILLION in taxpayer dollars to his supporters, including violent criminals. He's just stealing your money. There's no transparency, we won't know who gets paid, or how much. It's illegal and corrupt as hell. We're fighting it in court.

House Judiciary Dems@democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 3mo ago

BREAKING: 93 House Democrats have filed a motion to block Trump’s self-dealing settlement in his sham $10 billion IRS lawsuit, which would create a $1.7 billion slush fund for Jan. 6 rioters and political allies.

Deal alert! The Kindle edition of my dog-friendly cozy mystery is on sale for $1.99 for the rest of April! (If you don't use Amazon, Barnes & Noble has the ebook at the same discounted price right now, but I don't know how long that will last.)

The cover of How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder by Emily Soderberg is displayed on an e-reader, with text that says "$1.99 Kindle Deal All April."