saramoohead
@saramoohead.bsky.social
Engineering Manager at FreeAgent. Was kids book publishing. BookPenPals + http://engineeringyourstory.com + http://undiscoveredvoices.com. She/her. Do-gooder.
kidlituk_intro feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyrmsmhhg7vzz4ghj44y5xzq/feed/b191e848891d
kidlituk_intro feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyrmsmhhg7vzz4ghj44y5xzq/feed/b191e848891d
Reposted by saramoohead
Reposted by saramoohead
Excellent update on all things @uvcompetition.bsky.social from committee deputy chair @maggiewomersley.bsky.social in the latest issue of @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Words and Pictures including:
👉 Meet the judges
👉 Masterclass details
👉 Info on limited FREE places
tinyurl.com/nhcj48y4 #UV26
👉 Meet the judges
👉 Masterclass details
👉 Info on limited FREE places
tinyurl.com/nhcj48y4 #UV26
UNDISCOVERED VOICES Meet the Judges
Words and Pictures is the online magazine of SCBWI British Isles.
tinyurl.com
April 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Excellent update on all things @uvcompetition.bsky.social from committee deputy chair @maggiewomersley.bsky.social in the latest issue of @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Words and Pictures including:
👉 Meet the judges
👉 Masterclass details
👉 Info on limited FREE places
tinyurl.com/nhcj48y4 #UV26
👉 Meet the judges
👉 Masterclass details
👉 Info on limited FREE places
tinyurl.com/nhcj48y4 #UV26
Reposted by saramoohead
“Five new poetry collections, each with their own magic.”
Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now!
booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug...
Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now!
booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug...
April 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“Five new poetry collections, each with their own magic.”
Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now!
booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug...
Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now!
booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug...
Reposted by saramoohead
It's now publicly live. So if you're a writer of any kind and are not a right wing loony, please sign:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It's now publicly live. So if you're a writer of any kind and are not a right wing loony, please sign:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by saramoohead
Straight/cis friends - the best time to actually get your skin in the game might have been in the past, but the second best time is now.
April 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Straight/cis friends - the best time to actually get your skin in the game might have been in the past, but the second best time is now.
Reposted by saramoohead
Reposted by saramoohead
Orwell’s fairy tale tells the story of a farm’s rebellion against the tyranny of humans only to find themselves under a new totalitarian regime. It lays out the use of fear, propaganda, lies, and even hope as tools of oppression. Read about tyranny, it is critical now more than ever.
#booksky
#booksky
April 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Orwell’s fairy tale tells the story of a farm’s rebellion against the tyranny of humans only to find themselves under a new totalitarian regime. It lays out the use of fear, propaganda, lies, and even hope as tools of oppression. Read about tyranny, it is critical now more than ever.
#booksky
#booksky
Reposted by saramoohead
Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
April 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
Reposted by saramoohead
So it's been a bit of a binbag of a week... BUT "Fight Like A Girl 2", feminist anthology featuring three trans authors, is a finalist in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards announced this evening, and I'm delighted for all my authors. You deserve this, all of you ♡
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...
Fight Like A Girl – Volume 2
ISBNs Paperback: 978-1-913892-84-5 EPUB: 978-1-913892-82-1 MOBI: 978-1-913892-83-8
wizardstowerpress.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So it's been a bit of a binbag of a week... BUT "Fight Like A Girl 2", feminist anthology featuring three trans authors, is a finalist in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards announced this evening, and I'm delighted for all my authors. You deserve this, all of you ♡
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...
Reposted by saramoohead
Go me and my skills. I’ve made a #UKKidLit starter pack for anyone looking to find the kids book chat community on here. Hope it helps. #KidsBooks #KidLitUK #BookChat go.bsky.app/LEQd4SR
November 10, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Go me and my skills. I’ve made a #UKKidLit starter pack for anyone looking to find the kids book chat community on here. Hope it helps. #KidsBooks #KidLitUK #BookChat go.bsky.app/LEQd4SR
Reposted by saramoohead
Authors, illustrators, screenwriters, poets etc. Please sign this open letter regarding the recent UK Supreme Court judgement on trans peoples’ rights to legal recognition. 🏳️⚧️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
An Open Letter of Solidarity With the Trans Community from UK Writers
NOTE: THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT TO PRESS AND RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC ON TUESDAY - UNTIL THEN, PLEASE ONLY SHARE WITH SMALL GROUPS AND TRUSTED INDIVIDUALS.
The UK Supreme Court ruling of 17th April 2025...
docs.google.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Authors, illustrators, screenwriters, poets etc. Please sign this open letter regarding the recent UK Supreme Court judgement on trans peoples’ rights to legal recognition. 🏳️⚧️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by saramoohead
If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community.
And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account.
goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...
And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account.
goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...
Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project
Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.
goodlawproject.org
April 20, 2025 at 6:11 AM
If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community.
And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account.
goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...
And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account.
goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...
Reposted by saramoohead
Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.
April 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.
Reposted by saramoohead
I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us.
We have to save us.
And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to
www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators
We have to save us.
And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to
www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators
An Open Letter to My Fellow Book Creators — Pretty Ok Maggie
Inside me there are two wolves: the one that understands that the best activism happens behind closed doors and that everyone does what they can and that not everyone can be asked to do the same thing...
www.prettyokmaggie.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us.
We have to save us.
And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to
www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators
We have to save us.
And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to
www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators
Reposted by saramoohead
And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
April 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.
Reposted by saramoohead
Such a great initiative! I would give my OWN books to my 10 year old self – I loved #historicalbooks, #fantasy and #adventurestories and mine are all three! I wrote them for my 10 year old self AND my own kids because books like these with children of colour did not exist for far too long. #kidlituk
April 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Such a great initiative! I would give my OWN books to my 10 year old self – I loved #historicalbooks, #fantasy and #adventurestories and mine are all three! I wrote them for my 10 year old self AND my own kids because books like these with children of colour did not exist for far too long. #kidlituk
Reposted by saramoohead
We see you. We stand with you.
April 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
We see you. We stand with you.
Reposted by saramoohead
It’s dangerous to think that what happens across the ocean can’t happen here. It can. It does. It has already started.
3 years ago in Bologna I saw David Levithan on a book banning panel warn that book banning would eventually move across the pond. Some folks dismissed the idea, pointing out that the politics of Europe are different. And now today... : www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It’s dangerous to think that what happens across the ocean can’t happen here. It can. It does. It has already started.
Reposted by saramoohead
A vacancy has recently opened up at the Big Green Bookshop for a new customer.
The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books.
Please email biggreenbooks@gmail.com with a list of books you'd like to buy.
The position is available straight away.
The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books.
Please email biggreenbooks@gmail.com with a list of books you'd like to buy.
The position is available straight away.
February 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A vacancy has recently opened up at the Big Green Bookshop for a new customer.
The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books.
Please email biggreenbooks@gmail.com with a list of books you'd like to buy.
The position is available straight away.
The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books.
Please email biggreenbooks@gmail.com with a list of books you'd like to buy.
The position is available straight away.
Reposted by saramoohead
Illustrators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please answer this question honestly & share.
If you worked full time for a year on making a graphic novel of 200 pages, what fee would you expect to be paid for the job?
Please answer this question honestly & share.
If you worked full time for a year on making a graphic novel of 200 pages, what fee would you expect to be paid for the job?
April 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Illustrators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please answer this question honestly & share.
If you worked full time for a year on making a graphic novel of 200 pages, what fee would you expect to be paid for the job?
Please answer this question honestly & share.
If you worked full time for a year on making a graphic novel of 200 pages, what fee would you expect to be paid for the job?
Reposted by saramoohead
In June @Writers_Artists will publish my first non-fiction book – THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing. For details & to pre-order at a 10% discount:
UK: bloomsbury.com/uk/ultimate-gu…
US: bloomsbury.com/us/ultimate-gu���
UK: bloomsbury.com/uk/ultimate-gu…
US: bloomsbury.com/us/ultimate-gu���
April 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In June @Writers_Artists will publish my first non-fiction book – THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing. For details & to pre-order at a 10% discount:
UK: bloomsbury.com/uk/ultimate-gu…
US: bloomsbury.com/us/ultimate-gu���
UK: bloomsbury.com/uk/ultimate-gu…
US: bloomsbury.com/us/ultimate-gu���
Reposted by saramoohead
Hello Bluesky! I’m a neurodivergent UK children’s author who thinks and talks too much and writes a mix of picture books, poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Looking forward to connecting with people who make and love books! #KidsBooksUK
November 19, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Hello Bluesky! I’m a neurodivergent UK children’s author who thinks and talks too much and writes a mix of picture books, poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Looking forward to connecting with people who make and love books! #KidsBooksUK
Reposted by saramoohead
Same with Irish surnames that have an apostrophe
How am I supposed to book a flight with AerLingus when I can't spell my name correctly on the site?
How is this still a problem in Ireland in 2025?
#spéirgorm
How is this still a problem in Ireland in 2025?
#spéirgorm
April 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Same with Irish surnames that have an apostrophe
Reposted by saramoohead
UPDATED: My Bluesky Starter Thread. Newest version can always be accessed via debbieohi.link/starter (link in my profile bio, too). Feel free to share with anyone who needs it!
My take on social media
My Bluesky lists
Beginner tips
Starter thread for educators & librarians
cont'd 👇🏼
My take on social media
My Bluesky lists
Beginner tips
Starter thread for educators & librarians
cont'd 👇🏼
November 25, 2023 at 3:01 PM
UPDATED: My Bluesky Starter Thread. Newest version can always be accessed via debbieohi.link/starter (link in my profile bio, too). Feel free to share with anyone who needs it!
My take on social media
My Bluesky lists
Beginner tips
Starter thread for educators & librarians
cont'd 👇🏼
My take on social media
My Bluesky lists
Beginner tips
Starter thread for educators & librarians
cont'd 👇🏼