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Alex Atkinson
@alatkinson.bsky.social
Children’s writer of the Spooksmiths Investigate series with
Usborne @northlitagency.bsky.social‬ ‪
@linalanglee.bsky.social‬
https://linktr.ee/alexatkinsonstories
It's alive! Join twins Indigo and Rusty on their second terrifying adventure. Thank you to everyone who has made these stories possible. Special mention to Usborne, @linalanglee.bsky.social @northlitagency.bsky.social and to Miriam Serafin
September 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Circus of Shadows comes out a month today! This time around Indigo and Rusty catch a ghost train on a trip to die for. Links to pre order are in my bio. Thank you Usborne Publishing, @linalanglee.bsky.social @northlitagency.bsky.social and to ‪@miriamserafin.bsky.social for the beautiful cover
August 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Roll up, roll up, the Spooksmiths are back! Prepare to be terrified out of your wits at the Circus of Shadows. Enter if you dare…
Spooksmiths Investigates: Circus of Shadows launches on 11 September 2025 with Usborne @linalanglee.bsky.social
Pre-order links in my bio.
June 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
@uvcompetition.bsky.social was the boost that I needed to keep writing. I'm a UV 2022 alumni and I met some lovely writer friends who kept me going until I got my agent and book deal. It's worth entering!
Undiscovered Voices 2026 launches with a live online event on 22 May -check out our pinned post 👀

The competition is open to unagented and unpublished members of @scbwi-bi.bsky.social and Europe. Some free memberships will be available for underrepresented writers 👇
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#UV26
Free Entry Opportunity — Undiscovered Voices
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May 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Ghoulishly grateful today. The FCBG Children’s Book Award 2025 has been announced and Spooksmiths Investigate: The Cinderman is on the Younger Readers shortlist with some truly amazing stories.
#FCBGCBA25 #Usborne #Spooksmiths #thecinderman
March 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thank you so much @robynnhyde.bsky.social for interviewing me for @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Words & Pictures about my debut journey. It's been quite a ride!
It was lovely to catch up with @alatkinson.bsky.social about her #MG novel #SpooksmithsInvestigate #TheCinderman, published by Usborne. It's a horror-mystery series with squabbling siblings! Alex’s advice to new writers is spot on: "make writer friends"!

www.wordsandpics.org/2025/02/debu...
DEBUT JOURNEYS Alex Atkinson
Words and Pictures is the online magazine of SCBWI British Isles.
www.wordsandpics.org
February 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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One from the short Cambridge break haul just completed. ‘Spooksmiths Investigate The Cinderman’ by @alatkinson.bsky.social. A good adventure read with notes of Davy Jone’s heart issues. Into the Christmas gifts next. #EduSkyPrimary
December 29, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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💙📚Book Review📚👍

‘Spooksmiths Investigate: The Cinderman’ by @alatkinson.bsky.social is a thrilling start to a new middle grade horror series.

Read my review at: www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1A8S...

#WritingCommunity #KidLit #KidLitUK #BookSky
January 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I’m here for all things book related particularly middle grade and teen stories. If it’s spooky, scary, mysterious, adventurous and/or funny, I’m in! Thank you, Toppings Edinburgh, for letting me climb my very first bookshop ladder. I want one.
December 5, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Made a shortlist. Great news.
December 2, 2024 at 3:05 PM