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BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF out now! 🐾📚

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October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Great set of Buzz Sausage Wolf PRIMARY SCHOOL RESOURCES for any teachers starting to think about the new term 🤪🐾

Available free here
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Free Buzz Sausage Wolf teaching resources for KS1 & KS2, created with Hachette - creative writing, story sequencing, and vocabulary-building activities.
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July 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A big THANK YOU to all the schools and bookshops that have hosted BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF events over the past few weeks! #kidlit #readingforpleasure #readingforfun #childrensbooks #KS1 #readingrocks #authorvisit #primaryschool #orangutan #ukulele
July 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF is very excited to be in the window of Waterstones Finchley Road!🐾
June 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I will be celebrating the release of
BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF (out now!) with events at these marvellous bookshops:

Steyning Bookshop - 26 May
Waterstones Finchley Road 02 - 27 May
Bags of Books, Lewes - 29 May Chicken and Frog, Brentwood - 7 June
Heffers, Cambridge - 29 June

and lots of schools!
May 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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One week to go!
May 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF will be released ONE MONTH TODAY and he’s raring to go. If you know ANY 5-8 year olds, or have ever met one, please PRE-ORDER Buzz Sausage Wolf from your favourite bookshop today. 🐾
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February 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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📣 HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 🐍

It's COVER REVEAL TIME!

I'm proud to present my new novel

🏮NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST 💥 out June 12th.

The wonderful cover art is by Simone Douglas @SimsDougie
Published by @PiccadillyPress
January 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book.

"I knew my grandparents had been ill, but I hadn’t expected them to explode."

-The Caravan at the Edge of Doom
Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book.

"My name is Loki, and I am a god. Or I was until last Tuesday."

-Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good.
Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book.

"We'd scarcely entered Father's new lands when I realised how little I cared that I'd never inherit them."

- A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
February 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
January 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Happy publication day to @prleathley.bsky.social and this absolute stunner...

'The book crackles with imagination. It’s beautifully written, with broad appeal to boys and girls, and fizzes with indelible imagery...a fantastic adventure'
The Times, Children's Book of the Week
January 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Long eared owl clapping in flight as he hunts over the buttercup fields

📸 driver.david
January 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Many years ago when I was an editor I went to my boss and asked why we were allowing ourselves to become so reliant on Amazon...I suggested that publishers could mutually invest in a central bookselling website where orders were sent direct to relevant hubs and the amount we'd save because...
January 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Libraries & librarians have never been more important. If we care about the future, we must make sure every school, every community, every child has access to a library & a librarian. And we have to give them all our support, so they can do their vital work, which benefits us ALL! #SaveLibraries
January 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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⭐️COVER REVEAL⭐️

Here it is! The cover of my brand new picture book out 13th March called I Hate Everything. I am so SUPER excited about this book & I really hope you love it too! Pre order from all your favs…some can be found here bit.ly/40FQeIQ

#kidsbooks #childrensbooks #picturebooks #ghosts
January 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
PLR is a thing of beauty.

I love libraries.
January 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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If you’d like to support a brilliant indie bookshop and buy a DEDICATED SIGNED copy of THE DAWN OF ADONIS, then click here c/o @bookcornerhx.bsky.social bookcornerhalifax.com/product/pre-...
PRE-ORDER SIGNED The Dawn of Adonis by Phil Earle
Paperback, £7.99. Published 5th June 2025. A tale of loyalty, loss, betrayal, and rebirth. It is 1911 and London’s docks thrum with underhand deals, none so great as the arrival of a valuable, rare…
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January 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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"If you want to use a copyrighted work, you ask permission, and then you pay for it. Anything else is theft, and anyone arguing for anything else is harming the UK creative industry."
Amen to @richardosman1.bsky.social on the government's pernicious AI proposal.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’
Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fields
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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THE DAWN OF ADONIS, cover illustrated by Tom Clohosy Cole, publishing in June…x
January 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Bonnie McBarker, my hardworking publicist, just wants you to know that my upcoming MG book #WorldOfWanda was reviewed in #TheObserver yesterday. Good work, Bonnie! #Out2Feb
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January 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Hey, any children's publishers out there clearing cupboards and got any groovy posters please? We need a refresh! #kidspublishing #indiebookshop #childrensbooks #groovyposters #childrenspublishing #posters #artwork #refresh
January 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM