Svani Parekh
@svaniparekh.bsky.social
Writer: 📺 Ghee Happy (Emmy Nominee & Annie Winner), Netflix, BBC, Sesame Street, Cartoon Network, Disney etc 📚GRANPHIBIAN I | Dragons - Snow Problem (Oxford) ✨Flash: The Punch, Jellyfish Review etc
Rep: Lydia Silver at Soho Agency, UK
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Svani Parekh
@svaniparekh.bsky.social
· Dec 13
🎉Ghee Happy has been nominated for an EMMY AWARD🏆! Congratulations to Sang Lee, Sanjay Patel & the stellar crew!
The show's been through quite a journey & I'm so proud and grateful to have been part of it. We sent cool, gorgeous Indian myths into the void...and they actually found a place!💛
The show's been through quite a journey & I'm so proud and grateful to have been part of it. We sent cool, gorgeous Indian myths into the void...and they actually found a place!💛
Go, Steph! 🥂
Release day bubbly! 🥂 You can grab FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR in print, ebook and audio today!
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September 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Go, Steph! 🥂
Really exciting meeting with a gaming studio today! Fingers crossed!🤞🏽
August 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Really exciting meeting with a gaming studio today! Fingers crossed!🤞🏽
One of my absolute favourite reads of the year! A super inventive blend of Nigerian folklore and futurism. (And the story ‘Ganger’ is just *chef’s kiss*)
August 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
One of my absolute favourite reads of the year! A super inventive blend of Nigerian folklore and futurism. (And the story ‘Ganger’ is just *chef’s kiss*)
Closing out the week with not one but two exciting TV things signed!? Sometimes everything just decides to randomly align and it feels like nothing short of a SERIES of miracles 💛 I’m (exhausted but) so bloody THRILLED! 🥂
July 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Closing out the week with not one but two exciting TV things signed!? Sometimes everything just decides to randomly align and it feels like nothing short of a SERIES of miracles 💛 I’m (exhausted but) so bloody THRILLED! 🥂
Closing out the week with not one but two exciting TV things signed!? Sometimes everything just decides to randomly align and it feels like nothing short of a SERIES of miracles 💛 I’m (exhausted but) so bloody THRILLED! 🥂
July 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Closing out the week with not one but two exciting TV things signed!? Sometimes everything just decides to randomly align and it feels like nothing short of a SERIES of miracles 💛 I’m (exhausted but) so bloody THRILLED! 🥂
Woohoo! Go #Readerful series! So thrilled to have been a part of it 💛
Looking back to this time last week when #Readerful won the ERA Award for best Primary Resource or Equipment Non-ICT. 👏🏆
Fantastic recognition for the OUP Primary Literacy team and all the amazing authors & illustrators who've worked on the Readerful series! 🥳📚✨
#UKEd #EduSky #KidLitUK
Fantastic recognition for the OUP Primary Literacy team and all the amazing authors & illustrators who've worked on the Readerful series! 🥳📚✨
#UKEd #EduSky #KidLitUK
May 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Woohoo! Go #Readerful series! So thrilled to have been a part of it 💛
🎉 It’s here! Loved writing this book about a goofy dragon discovering snow, hiding (rather poorly) from nosy townsfolk, and leaving dancing, clawy snow-prints EVERYWHERE😂❄️
Thanks so much to the lovely team at Oxford and, as always, to my brilliant agent Lydia Silver @da-childrens.bsky.social!
Thanks so much to the lovely team at Oxford and, as always, to my brilliant agent Lydia Silver @da-childrens.bsky.social!
April 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🎉 It’s here! Loved writing this book about a goofy dragon discovering snow, hiding (rather poorly) from nosy townsfolk, and leaving dancing, clawy snow-prints EVERYWHERE😂❄️
Thanks so much to the lovely team at Oxford and, as always, to my brilliant agent Lydia Silver @da-childrens.bsky.social!
Thanks so much to the lovely team at Oxford and, as always, to my brilliant agent Lydia Silver @da-childrens.bsky.social!
🔍Mother-daughter mystery game night 💛 (Feels ominously like the first scene of an absolutely unhinged detective show lol)
April 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🔍Mother-daughter mystery game night 💛 (Feels ominously like the first scene of an absolutely unhinged detective show lol)
A brilliant, chilling take on AI, health-tech and eerie, cheery corporate-speak 👇🏽
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
March 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A brilliant, chilling take on AI, health-tech and eerie, cheery corporate-speak 👇🏽
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
Creepy mysteries where all the clues are in drawings?? Sign me UP! 😍
February 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Creepy mysteries where all the clues are in drawings?? Sign me UP! 😍
It’s been a rough year, for personal reasons, but strange, lovely books absolutely kept me afloat💛
February 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It’s been a rough year, for personal reasons, but strange, lovely books absolutely kept me afloat💛
If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood…
The snow’s out of control and it don’t look good. Who you gonna call?
DRAGONS! 🐉
Delighted to be part of @oxfordeducation.bsky.social's #StoriesForMaths social media celebration with this dragon-filled book of magic, maths and fiery mayhem ✨
The snow’s out of control and it don’t look good. Who you gonna call?
DRAGONS! 🐉
Delighted to be part of @oxfordeducation.bsky.social's #StoriesForMaths social media celebration with this dragon-filled book of magic, maths and fiery mayhem ✨
January 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood…
The snow’s out of control and it don’t look good. Who you gonna call?
DRAGONS! 🐉
Delighted to be part of @oxfordeducation.bsky.social's #StoriesForMaths social media celebration with this dragon-filled book of magic, maths and fiery mayhem ✨
The snow’s out of control and it don’t look good. Who you gonna call?
DRAGONS! 🐉
Delighted to be part of @oxfordeducation.bsky.social's #StoriesForMaths social media celebration with this dragon-filled book of magic, maths and fiery mayhem ✨
Oh, so owning IP is a thing?
OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us
🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
January 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Oh, so owning IP is a thing?
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Wanted to do something positive today, so I made a starter pack of Diverse Kidlit creators and industry professionals! #diversekidlit #starterpack #diversifyyourshelves #weneeddiversebooks
go.bsky.app/Ma4TCD7
go.bsky.app/Ma4TCD7
January 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Wanted to do something positive today, so I made a starter pack of Diverse Kidlit creators and industry professionals! #diversekidlit #starterpack #diversifyyourshelves #weneeddiversebooks
go.bsky.app/Ma4TCD7
go.bsky.app/Ma4TCD7
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On its 4th anniv, I'm reposting for bsky my most popular Twitter thread: a defense of the "inactive protagonist," which birthed the essay below, in exactly the way it was written.
But first I need to contextualize how and why it was written.
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But first I need to contextualize how and why it was written.
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We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Let me take you through the anatomy of an active protagonist, one that everyone can relate to. We’ll make our protagonist—we’ll call him John—young and healthy, male, of humble origins (perhaps he’s f...
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January 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
On its 4th anniv, I'm reposting for bsky my most popular Twitter thread: a defense of the "inactive protagonist," which birthed the essay below, in exactly the way it was written.
But first I need to contextualize how and why it was written.
psychopomp.com/fantasy/augu...
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But first I need to contextualize how and why it was written.
psychopomp.com/fantasy/augu...
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My Genre Grapevine report on "AI and the Enshittification of Life" is out. I spent a year wading through the slop of generative artificial intelligence to show what happened with the programs in 2024, how they affect artists and writers, and where we go from here. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/ai-and...
AI and the Enshittification of Life, or My Year Wading Through the Slop of Generative Artificial Intelligence | Jason Sanford
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December 29, 2024 at 6:44 PM
My Genre Grapevine report on "AI and the Enshittification of Life" is out. I spent a year wading through the slop of generative artificial intelligence to show what happened with the programs in 2024, how they affect artists and writers, and where we go from here. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/ai-and...
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This is BIG! What an achievement. Congratulations! And all the very best! 🥳💫
🎉Ghee Happy has been nominated for an EMMY AWARD🏆! Congratulations to Sang Lee, Sanjay Patel & the stellar crew!
The show's been through quite a journey & I'm so proud and grateful to have been part of it. We sent cool, gorgeous Indian myths into the void...and they actually found a place!💛
The show's been through quite a journey & I'm so proud and grateful to have been part of it. We sent cool, gorgeous Indian myths into the void...and they actually found a place!💛
December 13, 2024 at 3:04 PM
This is BIG! What an achievement. Congratulations! And all the very best! 🥳💫
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🙌
It’s been a truly rotten few months, BUT today morning I got an email saying that a show I’d worked on about Indian myths just got nominated for an Emmy!!!
December 13, 2024 at 6:16 PM
🙌
🎉Ghee Happy has been nominated for an EMMY AWARD🏆! Congratulations to Sang Lee, Sanjay Patel & the stellar crew!
The show's been through quite a journey & I'm so proud and grateful to have been part of it. We sent cool, gorgeous Indian myths into the void...and they actually found a place!💛
The show's been through quite a journey & I'm so proud and grateful to have been part of it. We sent cool, gorgeous Indian myths into the void...and they actually found a place!💛
December 13, 2024 at 11:47 AM
🎉Ghee Happy has been nominated for an EMMY AWARD🏆! Congratulations to Sang Lee, Sanjay Patel & the stellar crew!
The show's been through quite a journey & I'm so proud and grateful to have been part of it. We sent cool, gorgeous Indian myths into the void...and they actually found a place!💛
The show's been through quite a journey & I'm so proud and grateful to have been part of it. We sent cool, gorgeous Indian myths into the void...and they actually found a place!💛
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'So yes, it is easier to sell them another book by one of those celebrities who Blacked-up on television, rather than by an unknown author who is consciously trying to avoid telling the kind of story they grew up reading.'
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How change happens
Despite some progress, publishers are yet to show consistent support for children’s books featuring minoritised characters, or for their creators
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November 29, 2024 at 12:53 PM
'So yes, it is easier to sell them another book by one of those celebrities who Blacked-up on television, rather than by an unknown author who is consciously trying to avoid telling the kind of story they grew up reading.'
www.thebookseller.com/comment/clpe...
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As I’ve been saying for over a year:
If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime.
Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime.
Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
TV Writers Found 139,000 of Their Scripts Trained AI. Hell Broke Loose
It's 'organized crime,' says one, as scribes from Shonda Rhimes to Robert King face a system where studio policy and law remain murky
theankler.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:44 PM
As I’ve been saying for over a year:
If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime.
Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime.
Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
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Wanting to focus on writers who don’t have social media so far as I’m aware:
I’m always baffled more SFF folk haven’t read Elwin Cotman, whose 2020 collection DANCE ON SATURDAY really blew me away. Here’s a gift link to my review of it.
I’m always baffled more SFF folk haven’t read Elwin Cotman, whose 2020 collection DANCE ON SATURDAY really blew me away. Here’s a gift link to my review of it.
November 22, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Wanting to focus on writers who don’t have social media so far as I’m aware:
I’m always baffled more SFF folk haven’t read Elwin Cotman, whose 2020 collection DANCE ON SATURDAY really blew me away. Here’s a gift link to my review of it.
I’m always baffled more SFF folk haven’t read Elwin Cotman, whose 2020 collection DANCE ON SATURDAY really blew me away. Here’s a gift link to my review of it.
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I'm trying to build a Kids TV Animation Writer Starter Pack - here's the beginning and I'll keep adding as I find you! go.bsky.app/5UtJtqp
November 22, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I'm trying to build a Kids TV Animation Writer Starter Pack - here's the beginning and I'll keep adding as I find you! go.bsky.app/5UtJtqp
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I have no idea if I did this correctly but I looked for a Starter Pack for South Asian writers and didn't find one - so I made one.
Please share and feel free to let me know if you want to be added 🤎
#southasian #scriptsky #writersky #authorsky
go.bsky.app/TTefBKP
Please share and feel free to let me know if you want to be added 🤎
#southasian #scriptsky #writersky #authorsky
go.bsky.app/TTefBKP
November 12, 2024 at 11:34 AM
I have no idea if I did this correctly but I looked for a Starter Pack for South Asian writers and didn't find one - so I made one.
Please share and feel free to let me know if you want to be added 🤎
#southasian #scriptsky #writersky #authorsky
go.bsky.app/TTefBKP
Please share and feel free to let me know if you want to be added 🤎
#southasian #scriptsky #writersky #authorsky
go.bsky.app/TTefBKP