My Name is Jodie Jones by @emmashevah.bsky.social and Letters to a Monster illustrated by #SarahWarburton & written by #PatriciaForde are shortlisted for the 2025 @irishbookawards.bsky.social! 🏆📚 @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.irishbookawards.ie/2025-shortli...

"A raw, moving look at family, identity and emotional survival."♥️🔒 My Name is Jodie Jones by @emmashevah.bsky.social was named one of The Best New Children's Books for Autumn 2025 by @theipaper.com! @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social inews.co.uk/culture/book...

"A profoundly poignant, beautifully written YA contemporary novel, with a brave, brilliant heroine."♥️ My Name is Jodie Jones by @emmashevah.bsky.social is included in @theguardian.com's Children and Teens roundup of the best new picture books and novels! @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

Annnd she’s out! Jodie Jones is out in the big bad world, and she is getting lots and lots of love. The launch was jubilant thanks to the amazing Rev and team at Waterstones King Road, the DFB team, and everyone who came along to celebrate. Anthony, my editor, gave the world's best and most…

English #teachers and friends of #EnglishLiterature teachers: did you know that #MyNameisJodieJones is replete with quotations from the world's finest literature? Here are just some. #YA #booksforteens

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Thank you so much @bookwagonuk.bsky.social for this gorgeous review of My Name is Jodie Jones share.google/XXYzE70PR4k8...

Thank you so much to Tanja Jennings @booksforkeeps.bsky.social for this amazing review of My Name is Jodie Jones. share.google/v0rUcPc9PV7E... @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social @theagencybooks.bsky.social

Happy book birthday to @emmashevah.bsky.social, on the publication of her #YA novel 'MY NAME IS JODIE JONES'! 15-year-old Jodie Jones is NEVER just 'Jodie', and she's not shy about telling people off if they get that wrong! But what family secret is dragging her down? @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

Thank you @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social for my finished copy of the brilliant #YA novel #MyNameIsJodieJones by @emmashevah.bsky.social Posting my review again in celebration of publication on Thursday 11th Sept #UkKidLit vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2025/07/28/y...

"From then on, I collected sentences like other people collect keyrings. I searched for them everywhere..."♥️ Happy Publication Day to @emmashevah.bsky.social's YA novel My Name is Jodie Jones, a compelling, witty, moving love letter to the magic of words. Published by @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

Thank you @karenmccombie.bsky.social!

Two days to go … I'm delighted and excited. My Name is Jodie Jones will be published this Thursday 11th September, and the pre-publication reviews are astonishing. I have been bowled over by the positive energy and love for this book. Thank you to all the reviewers for taking the time to read and…

Summer writing: the good, the bad and the other stuff. Sometimes I find writing easy: I just open my head and words come out. I'm happiest if they come out exactly as my brain intends. With My Name is Jodie Jones, I was stunned when someone (that someone being my agent, Jessica Hare) actually…

Countdown: one month from today Jodie Jones will enter the world and she will make you see it differently.

Fantastic to spot these titles in @thebookseller.com's Buyer's Guides for Autumn/Winter 2025!📚 My Name is Jodie Jones by @emmashevah.bsky.social, A Grave Inheritance by #FelicityEpps and Paddington's Twelve Days of Christmas by #MichaelBond & #KarenJankel were also named highlights of the season!✨

I had such a great writing day today. It's been ages since I've been able to say that. I loved every second of it and highly amused myself. That is all. The end.

I’m so grateful to @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social for sending me a proof of the brilliant #YA novel #MyNameIsJodieJones by @emmashevah.bsky.social #UkKidLit #KidLitUk Here’s my review👇 vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2025/07/28/y...

My new novel and my debut for teens, My Name is Jodie Jones, is out on Sept 11th 2025 with David Fickling Books. Even more excitingly, it's included in Waterstones’ 25% off FLASH SALE this week. Enter SUMMER25 to receive 25% off the RRP. waterstones.com/campaign/jul...

Ooh I envy you opening #ThePoisonedKing for the first time (& the long summer break, which I no longer have 😂) My current read is a beautifully literary #YA novel #MyNameIsJodieJones by @emmashevah.bsky.social due for publication in Sept by @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

"Beautiful, heart-wrenching and moving"❤️ Fantastic to see My Name is Jodie Jones by @emmashevah.bsky.social in @thebookseller.com's "10 Titles not to miss in September"! @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

🔒❤️ Jodie Jones is quick, shrewd and obsessed with words. She's also hiding a painful secret... We're delighted to reveal the cover for the brilliant @emmashevah.bsky.social's compelling and witty YA debut MY NAME IS JODIE JONES! Publishing in September and available to pre-order now!

Words I like the meaning of but not the sound: Truth Milkshake Marigold

Cover Reveal My heart is going boom booty boom booty boom with love, delight, excitement and titillation to share the cover of 'My Name is Jodie Jones', published this September with David Fickling Books. It's a beaut: full of zip, zing, zeal and pizazz. Big up Michelle Brackenborough for this…

Words I like the sounds of but not the meaning: Dump Flatulence Ridicule

I made my first Instgram reel. Blimey, that three minute vid took a long time.

Cover reveal! (Or is it author reveal?) My debut YA, 'My Name is Jodie Jones', is out on 11 Sept with @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social. With thanks to Jessica Hare at @theagencybooks.bsky.social.

Our online Arvon course on writing for children and young people is now live. Join me and the brilliant Ashley Hickson-Lovence this summer for a fun, insightful and explorative week. www.arvon.org/writing-cour... @arvonfoundation.bsky.social

I’m excited/terrified to be speaking/gibbering at the World Literacy Summit in Oxford next week. I’ve even been invited to the Ambassador’s Luncheon, which I’m assuming will largely consist of ferrero rocher sandwiches. #kidlituk

Got a kid's book in you? I'm judging this year... wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk/competitions...

Debut Teen/YA out this September. I lost my writing mojo a few years back. It happens. I think it might happen more to those of us who have full time jobs, kids, homes to run, and barely time to brush our teeth, so writing and editing books seems an unnecessary add on. Writing them is fine. Fun.…

When all the teenage girls at my school were in love with one or other of the members of Duran Duran, I had a massive crush on Hugh Laurie 🤷🏽‍♀️ He was the prince in Blackadder at the time and "didn't want to get caught out in a pair of boring trousers." That became my life long mantra ...

Turns out when you quote from other authors' books, and they're not 70+ years dead, it's quite expensive and the author is the one who pays by way of a reduced advance. And getting permissions takes ages. I did not know this stuff ...

I'm over the moon (weird phrase) that my first book for teens is being published by David Ficking Books @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social. Keep your eyes peeled 🥸 (another weird phrase) (relevant) for a special girl called Jodie Jones.

I can't believe I have another blooming injury. I'm really not accident prone but that's two bone breaks last year and an ankle sprain on Sunday. This is getting ridiculous. Hello, new Blue Sky buddies! Happy to see you all again.

I deleted my twitter account way back when, so it's LOVELY to be here and reconnecting with old buddies. Please follow me follow (down to the hollow where we will wallow in glorious ...)