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Melanie Whitmarsh
@mgwhitmarsh.bsky.social
✏️Copywriter l Photographer | Book Blogger
🥇Winner WM NID Award 23 | 🥈2nd place Yeovil Literary Award 24 | SL WMNA 25 | LL Exeter Novel Prize 25

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I’ve always want to doodle! Yesterday, I gave it a go. Had the word picnic in mind. #doodle #procreate #sketch
May 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Love these.
A few nature prints for #Earthday
April 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Jam-packed, super-useful talk on @write-mentor.bsky.social today about editing novels. Thank you, @authorsaragrant.bsky.social! I do love a craft book and this one sounds brilliant! 📝 #writers
April 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
January 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books
December 29, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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ICYI - read interviews with each of the four authors on the shortlist for the #NeroBookAwards Children's Category now via #BooksForKeeps. Winner announced 14 January 25. Which is your pick? #Awards #KidLit
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December 29, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Just finished Murakami’s short, interesting memoir looking at the parallels between long-distance running and novel writing. Also, his thoughts on aging, marathon prep, and disappointing race times. A good companion to his essay collection Novelist as a Vocation. #HarukiMurakami #marathonrunning
December 28, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Have you taken the @mcnallyeditions.bsky.social reader quiz? 📚Turns out I’m an Escape Artist.💥 How about you?! 🔎
December 24, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Just finished Edward Carey’s Heap House. Not sure if I want to chuck out all my junk, or cosy up to the clutter and make pets of random tins and trinkets. #EdwardCarey #book #ya
December 24, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Sally Jones, what a delight! Loved the muted palette, the worldwide travel, all the boats, and Wegelius’s economic writing - with drama, twists, and surprises unfolding in single text boxes. Cannot wait to settle down with The Murderer’s Ape. @sushibooks.bsky.social #JakobWegelius #kidlit #books
December 19, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Just picked up Alex T. Smith’s latest as a Christmas present. How fabulous is this opening line?! “I never thought I would be lucky enough to stumble across a dead body because I don’t have a dog.” Can’t wait to read it! #middlegrade #kidlit #kidlitUK
December 17, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Just came across this fabulous artwork. Too good not to share and marvel! That’s Lora Senf’s #middlegrade creepfest and Alfredo Cáceres’ darkly delicious illustrations. @redolaf.bsky.social @lorasenf.bsky.social This is my weekend read! 🫣👻 #kidlit #books
December 4, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Starling, darling. Doodling when I should be editing… 😬
#doodle #illustration #procreate
#birds #procrastination
November 26, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Canongate for Quote of the Day! @canongate.co.uk
Haha, I might have phrased this differently if I thought the Guardian would be quoting me…

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November 26, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Congratulations Fleur Hitchcock on #MyBookBuzz news! 🎊Let’s make Murder at Wintertide today's Book of the Day! A cosy, Christmassy, middle grade thriller with fossils and technology... @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social www.pageturnercliffhanger.com/home/murder-... #kidlitUK @nosycrow.bsky.social
Murder at Wintertide by Fleur Hitchcock — Pageturner Cliffhanger Book blog
Peril, intrigue, and hot chocolate in this cosy middle-grade Christmas thriller.
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November 26, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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November 23, 2024 at 2:24 PM
My favourite garden bird. #doodle #illustration #procreate #birdart
November 25, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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What are the children's books that changed YOUR lives? Here are a few of mine: books without which my own books would not exist...
November 21, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Our NEW Book Of The Week is here: MAGGIE BLUE AND THE LOST CHILD is the thrilling conclusion to Anna Goodall's deservedly acclaimed Dark World fantasy trilogy #kidlit. booksforkeeps.co.uk/review/maggi...
November 21, 2024 at 4:33 PM
“All I need is a window to not write.” 🪟That’s author Tobias Wolff talking about office design in Issue 171 of the Paris Review. 📝Yep, am with you on that one, Mr Wolff. #TobiasWolff #ParisReview #writingcommunity #📚
November 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Going back to 2021 for this Book of the Day: my current favourite in Elizabeth C. Bunce’s fabulous Myrtle Hardcastle historic whodunnits. Archaeology, poison, and secret societies... #KidLit #KidLitUK #📚 #💙📚 www.pageturnercliffhanger.com/home/coldblo...
Cold-Blooded Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce — Pageturner Cliffhanger Book blog
High stakes for detective Myrtle in this middle-grade mystery
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November 19, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Book of the Day: Antoine Saint-Exupéry for junior explorers. The 120th in the series by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara. #UKKidLit #LittlPeopleBigDreams #picturebooks www.pageturnercliffhanger.com/home/antoine...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara — Pageturner Cliffhanger Book blog
Short text and large, joyful illustrations make an appealing introduction to Saint-Exupéry’s dramatic life.
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November 18, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Book of the Day: Jack Jackman’s middle grade debut Maisie vs Antarctica introduces a winsome new heroine. #UKKidLit @jackjackman.bsky.social www.pageturnercliffhanger.com/home/maisie-...
Book review Maisie vs Antarctica by Jack Jackman — Pageturner Cliffhanger Book blog
A contemporary polar adventure with laugh-aloud moments and a winsome heroine.
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November 15, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Book blogger signing in. Hello! #BookBlog
November 15, 2024 at 11:13 AM