Next #ukteenchat will be tonight- Tues 29th July 8-9pm BST with the fabulous @poppytperry.bsky.social who will be chatting all about her illustrated debut #YA - Dead Reel 🧟‍♂️ It will be here on BlueSky, all welcome to come along and join the chat 🙂
#DeadReel #writerslife #zombies

Excited to announce our 3rd annual MGHub Off-Social-Media pitching event for all ages of kidlit: PB / CB / MG / YA Click to learn more… #mglit #kidlit #pitch

THE NEWS IS OUT! Beyond excited that my debut MG series has found the perfect home at HarperCollins Children’s, starting with HARI KUMAR: ULTIMATE SUPERSTAR (out Feb 2026). Can’t wait for you to meet this cheeky autistic ADHDer with BIG dreams!

(And we made it into The Bookseller! 🎉)

Undiscovered Voices is BACK 🙌🥳🤩 We can't wait to kick off #UV26 and our hunt for fresh new voices in children's literature.

Watch this space for news of our live online launch, judges, workshops and more 👀

#kidlit #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingforchildren

SQUISHY MUSHROOM SPORES 🍄
Found this beautiful puffball mushroom during a walk in the park.

Some great alternatives are... your local independent book shop - they will all be happy to order in whatever book you want, it might be slower, but let's reject the capitalist pull to urgency... Are you really going to read it right this minute?
Bookshop.org and hive.co.uk -

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...

Getting booked up for World Book Week (hooray!) - have a some slots left, so schools - if you're looking for a vibrant, interactive visit from an ND author then please DM. Ideally in Wilts/Bath/Bristol to fit around other schools but can go further afield if it works.

It's here! Thrilled to reveal 'The Scream of the Whistle' cover by the incredible Micaela Alcaino. It's May Eve, and the veil between worlds is thin. Join Ruby Darke on the ghost ride of her life...

Out 5th June.

Pre-order: shorturl.at/E5aXz
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"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."

futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

An act of kindness is seldom wasted. Something small to you could be an event ever remembered by someone else. These acts, large and small, make all of us better.

Next #ukteenchat will be Tues 14th Jan 8-9pm GMT with the fabulous @susanbrownrigg.bsky.social right here on Bluesky! Hope to see you for the new location 🙂
#MG #kidlit #writerslife #WrongTracks @uclanpublishing.bsky.social

Morning all.

Photographer Martine Franck. Carnival, Skinningrove Club, North Yorkshire, England, 1978.

Writer's block is, 90% of the time, your subconscious holding you back because you've taken a wrong turn. Go back to the last place the story was really working and try taking a left turn or two, see what happens. It costs you nothing and can really limber you up.

To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway.

Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100.

You have until noon on Sunday 17th November

Announcing #BluePit!

The first BlueSky exclusive writing pitch event open to all genres!

Much of the #WritingCommunity is migrating due to Twitter's new AI & block policy, so the time has come to bring pitch events with us.

Agent participation is welcome & public feeds will be provided!

🤓

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.