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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now!
@maisiechanwrites.bsky.social
🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths

🐯 Tiger Warrior author

🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author

Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices.

Lit Rep: @chloeseager

https://linktr.ee/MaisieChanWrites

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Amazing to see Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past as one of The Observer’s ‘The Best Children’s Chapter Books of the Summer’ 😳🤩 thanks to critic Kitty Empire for the review! #booksky #ukkidlit #kidlituk #middlegrade #blueskybooks
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November 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Scriptwriters! As part of our #Creatives4Sudan auction, BBC scriptwriter Amna Saleem is offering a script edit to the highest bidder. Currently only 25 quid! Incredible! app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #ScriptSky
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November 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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#scriptsky
Not technically screenwriting, but it's a brilliant article - which I think has relevance for us (and it's about gaming, which I'd absolutely love to write for).
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:

zombiesrungame.com

observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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I'm offering a one hour mentoring session (will read up to 3000 words) for an aspiring children's writer to raise money for Creatives4Sudan.
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Creatives4Sudan are raising money and there are lots of great items you can bid for. I'm offering one hour's mentoring and will read up to 3000 words (to be taken in 2026). Do check out the items in the auction! #Creatives4Sudan
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
BID BID BID! Sudan needs your help and CREATIVES4SUDAN have set up an auction to raise money.

I'm offering an hour's mentoring (and will read up to 3000 words) of a children's book project in 2026. Please do have a look at the lots.

app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

#CreativesForSudan
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Wow! This is amazing! Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths/ Sums It Up is a finalist in the Shenzhen ‘Ten Best Books of the Year’ Reading Month! Thanks @helenwanglondon.bsky.social for letting me know!
Congratulations to @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social - author of the month at the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing ( @writingchinese.bsky.social ) AND a finalist for the Ten Best Books of the Year (Shenzhen Reading Month)! chinesebooksforyoungreaders.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/1...
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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I’m doing my first Christmas shopping signing event for @waterstones.braehead on Sat 29th Nov 2-4pm! Signed copies of some of my books will be available! Just in time for Christmas! Please do come along #Glasgow!
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Good morning Blue Sky! I’m thrilled to reveal the cover to mine and Jo Lindley’s new picture book - CHI CHI THE PANDA which will be out 4th June 2026!!!

It’s my first picture book and Jo has created the cutest and fluffiest panda! It’s historical non-fiction too so you’ll learn stuff too!
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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The @booksforkeeps.bsky.social Books of the Year 2025 has our regular round up of selected primary aged texts with lgbtq+ stars🤩

Books by @tommydoyle.bsky.social Sarah Tagholm& @manumontoya.bsky.social @peterbently.bsky.social & Claire Powell @catwrote.bsky.social @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Keep it short and find what you enjoy: how to start reading for fun
Keep it short and find what you enjoy: how to start reading for fun
In a world full of distractions, it can be difficult to form a habit that needs attention. Experts advise on getting out of the rut
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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This year you get TWO sets of shortlisted books instead of one when you sign up for the Spark! School Book Awards by 28 November. If you still need convincing, here's a fantastic endorsement from a secondary school librarian...
www.sparkbookawards.co.uk/schools/school-sign-up
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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BOOK GIVEAWAY!!! I'm not on social media much at the moment, working hard on my new book, which I feel sure will be my best one yet when it's done! In the meantime, I'm giving away signed copies of all my books so far. Follow & repost to enter, and say which book you'd like & why. Closes Dec 5!
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Good morning Blue Sky! I’m thrilled to reveal the cover to mine and Jo Lindley’s new picture book - CHI CHI THE PANDA which will be out 4th June 2026!!!

It’s my first picture book and Jo has created the cutest and fluffiest panda! It’s historical non-fiction too so you’ll learn stuff too!
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I'm a Royal Literary Fund Fellow this year (I was one last year too) and I wish I had know about writing support when I was at uni. I never thought about it at all. I would just do my essays, hand them in and hope for the best. I did okay but I could have done better.
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I'm doing a cover reveal tomorrow for my debut picture book! I'm excited about it!
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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It’s Anti-Bullying Week! Bullying is a crucial discussion topic in our book clubs, so we offer resources for books across different genres and age ranges.

Today is also Odd Socks Day. Are you wearing yours?

*Sound on*

#AntibullyingWeek #OddSocksDay #PowerForGood
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It's Remembrance Sunday and let's remember that the black and brown people fought and died as part of the Allies too.

In my new novel - Nate Yu's Blast From the Past
I feature a ghost from the Chinese Labour Corp because it was important for me to tell readers about this often untold history.
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I’m doing my first Christmas shopping signing event for @waterstones.braehead on Sat 29th Nov 2-4pm! Signed copies of some of my books will be available! Just in time for Christmas! Please do come along #Glasgow!
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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With the IBC Excluded Voices report making for sober reading this week, let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate brilliant books from global majority writers.
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

www.inclusivebooksforchildren.org/excluded-voi...
October 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Happy Halloween!!! 🎃

It's halloween and my new book has a GHOST in it!!!! I kinda forgot because he's a lovely guy! It's not a scary book, and it is gently supernatural!

I'm dressed a panda (hint to my next published book! 😱 which is for Early Years/KS1)
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I'm going to be doing some school visits in Hong Kong next year! How exciting! I feels pretty amazing knowing there will be kids in Hong Kong reading my books. How lucky am I!!!
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have recognised the best fiction for adults. Now, we're delighted to announce the Children’s Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation.

Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
This is amazing for whoever wins it! I remember saying I wanted to win the Booker Prize when I first started to write nearly two decades ago. Probably won't happen! But I am happy that there is an award recognising children's literature in the U.K. and of course £50,000 is amazing!
October 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM