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Publication day for this spooky beauty! 😱👻🤴👑

Delighted to be included in this anthology with ten other brilliant authors from @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social and illustrated by Pam Smy. #childrensbooks

Just started my next read, coming out this week! Thank you to @nosycrow.bsky.social and @krahim.bsky.social 🤩

Don't think I've ever read a children's book featuring donor-conceived children. Quinn has got a fun summer ahead now that she knows 16 half-brothers and sisters are out there! #UKkidslit

Gotta gush @karenmccombie.bsky.social 🤩 utterly voice-y, joyous. In an overcrowded (often samey) market this stands out by a mile. It addresses many things absolutely beautifully: ADHD, siblings, step, half families. Real, flawed adults. Warm, funny, pacy, wise. More Wanda! 🤩
#childrensbooks #UKMG

Rude to go into a bookshop and leave empty handed, right?! 🫠
Visited Kenilworth bookshop after my school visit, and was sold these two beauties. Had the pleasure of meeting @julesaspinall.bsky.social who is a delight. Also dear pal @sarahillswrites.bsky.social came to visit! 🤩 Tired, but thankful.

Trying to read more new 📚. First up is World of Wanda by @karenmccombie.bsky.social published by the always inventive @uclanpublishing.bsky.social
I'm really looking forward to diving into this. The story alternates perspectives between Wanda (ADHD rep) and Margot's diary entries. 💞 dual POV! 🤩

Two days of refilling the creative well... 🎭 #theatre #creativity #welcometothecheapseats

It's the weekend and that means a day of reading! 📚

I'm lucky enough to receive a proof of @clairelinney.bsky.social newest! 😃
#TimeTubTravellers #kidslitUK #kidsfiction #historicalfiction #representationmatters

Really looking forward to joining Zula and Milo on their adventures 🐴🎪

Delighted to be a judge for the third year running for this brilliant competition. (Also a yearly chance to see @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social 🤩)

#teachers Please direct any young people interested in self-expression, and who are in care, or care-experienced, to enter!
www.coramvoice.org.uk/voices

Thanks @tinabookpusher.bsky.social @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social for gorgeous #UKlit middle-grade book post that arrived! (An invite had gone into spam 😭).
I've many train journeys this week = peace & quiet to read!
#PeopleLikeStars is out 30th Jan from Scholastic. Get your pre-orders in, people! 📚

#Saturday

Procrastinating by... listening to a podcast (ep 10, which is SO lovely -- best of luck to thus Uni student who wants to be a writer) whilst clearing out my pen collection and reallocating books 😁

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Why, hello there 😘 (You're right by my bedside... currently lined up for 1st week of March!)

Starting as I mean to go... by documenting 📚 I've read this year. I'm not too keen on ratings/stars etc -- every single author I know has worked very hard to get their work out there. But I do want to show my support by spending time with their creations #kidslit #middlegrade #UKKidslit #amreading 📚

Sometimes people want to know 'how you began' 🙂

I wrote short stories and then flash (unpublished), on and off, for around 25 years before securing an agent (July 2018). The piece below was my first ever 'win' and the first time I felt truly proud (and... validated). #writing

How did you start? 📝