Wow never seen this edition before! V cool.

This is a beautiful exploration of the art of picture books including further reading. Well worth a read from Slate. #kidlit #picturebooks slate.com/culture/2025...

(Borked threading repost) #booklog 18. The Grimmelings – Rachael King Tip-top Kiwi middle grade “horse girl folk horror”. Unsettling and lovely, and stuffed with obscure Scots mythology and vocabulary. Reading to kids ftw!

Hot and accurate tip. christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3... ^DR

Just heard Jesse Mulligan say on RNZ he was surprised he’s 14 y/o daughter loved The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey. BUT it has a 13 y/o narrator and is a belting page turner. PERFECT YA material. Give it to your young teens I say! They love dark stuff, just ask @patricknessbooks.bsky.social

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Spellcasting On is out now! Cosy sapphic romance with yarn 🧶 and magic ✨. Available now on all the usual platforms: buy.bookfunnel.com/psfdv1soqy

New @backlisted.bsky.social episode! The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, with David Quantick, Una McCormack, Nicky Birch and me. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...

Insurance up 35%, dentist up 50%

Just going to leave this here

It’s almost like the arts are important

This pleases my eyes

newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/13/s... Story up!

Perfect way to deal with Destiny Church

Lovely and thoughtful review of Kings of this World thespinoff.co.nz/books/13-09-...

I'm writing a book on this at the moment so here's a sniff. Thanks to Tara and the Henry Jenkins team for having me!

Please spread the invitation to Fall of Freedom far and wide. We want participants from across the country. We're approaching everyone from huge venues to DIY and community spaces. Nothing too big or too small. www.falloffreedom.com

It’s almost like letting young white men marinate their brains in an algorithm-driven toxic stew of nihilistic hate 24/7 and giving them ready access to guns is a bad idea

They need to offer a clear retraction and an apology

Can’t wait for this! #pukapuka

What you waiting for? I do a monthly list of what I'm looking forward to reading. My September bunch including new pukapuka by Tusiata Avia and Elizabeth Knox, intriguing graphic novels, essays, and music books. ^DR christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp... #pukapuka #booksky

It’s The Terrible Trio day!! This one by me and Minky Stapleton is landing in bookshops and libraries around the world today. Happy reading, you superheroes! If you get yourself a copy, please support your local indie bookshop if you can 🦓🦝🐧

It's my publication day! Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos is out NOW. If you pop to your local indie you might just find a signed edition. And if you're quick? A free gift... Want a personalised edition? Go here! www.papercatbookshop.co.uk/products/lok... @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

This looks gorgeous!

@rachaelking70.bsky.social here we go again 😊

Since we have just lost an amazing writer at 57 who is Māori, who once described the Whāngarei hospital to me as “frightening… those cracks in the system are gaping crevasses”, that last line is absolutely disgusting.

hello! we want to speak to authors who have hated their own book covers. you will be anonymous (unless you are feeling brave) - please DM me!

This surpasses @orkneylibrary.bsky.social’s usual high standards

Jfc

I don’t care how popular they are, I refuse to write a book about dragons.

Listen folks. We’ve got it all wrong. The reason that “reading” matters is not scraping your eyes across letters. It matters because of STORYTELLING. This is how we have evolved because it has always always been about story. That is what you need. Shared history. Communal dreams. Community. STORY

I am still in shock and disbelief about this news. KAM was one of kind. Fierce, vulnerable, fucking funny.

The Ministry continually advised that the curriculum changes would narrow and reduce teacher’s ability to respond to learners and their local contexts, including to Te Tiriti. In September 2024 ERO’s international reviewers also identified this narrowing as a risk. But Stanford continued.

"To experience that magic in a different way, hearing the love behind these stories and how they came to life, is all part of the joy of words." ❤️ Jessie on a #WORDChch session with Rachael Craw, Andrea Eames, with @rachaelking70.bsky.social my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/t...

I have my first review of The Grimmelings from the US and phew it’s not bad! It’s out Oct 28. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... #kidlit #middlegrade #spookyMG

I’m chairing this fab session at WORD Christchurch today at 2.30pm at Tūranga. Come on down! wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/th...

I have a book out in two weeks. So....one repost of this and I'll drop one fact/spoiler/detail about the book. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social www.walker.co.uk/978152951581...

If you’re in Christchurch tonight and/or on your way to WORD and would like to see me make a possible dick of myself, come along to my launch at Scorpio!

Ten years ago, Rachael's Magpie Hall was our Community Read. There was an event with book chat, tea, and tales - and cake. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/m... Never one for not "theme dressing", I dressed up as main character Dora. ^DR

Too Shy by Violet & the Velvets is my jam! youtu.be/2LTQay02lX4 Come to the launch of book 2 in this diy-joyous series by @rachaelking70.bsky.social āpōpō at Scorpio Books (RSVP) wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/bo... #WORDChch ^DR

The world has changed so much since I wrote this, but at the end of the day it's still an essay I had a breakdown writing, an essay that took days because I couldn't stop crying long enough to write strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Hello! My sixth book, and the second in the Violet and the Velvets series, illustrated by the talented Phoebe Morris, is out today in New Zealand and Australia in all good bookshops! It’s got punk rock, kids and ghosts. Who needs more? @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #pukapuka #kidlit #middlegrade

I just went to the hygienist for my six monthly clean that apparently I need and it was $200. Six months ago it was $135. That’s a 50% increase. I don’t understand. My insurance has also gone up 35% but that’s because of natural disasters. Is climate change causing dentist fees to go up as well? WTF

My new book comes out tomorrow and related musical things are afoot

Slowly emerging back into the land of grown-up books by catching up on my @backlisted.bsky.social /Locklisteds and reaching into my bookcase for this in a ‘here’s one I prepared earlier’ manner after hearing @unamccormack.bsky.social @andrewmale.bsky.social and @iammilliam.bsky.social discussing it

I’m chairing this discussion and both Rachael and Andrea are brilliant and fun so come along if you dare!

Absolutely loved this interview with our own wonderful @pipadam.bsky.social! thecreativeindependent.com/people/autho...

A real treat from Writers on Mondays 2024 is now available on our modernlettuce blog: Damien Wilkins talks with Harry Ricketts on the occasion of his memoir, First Things modernlettuce.blog/2025/08/19/h...

I'm sounding the "Cool new addition to the #WORDChch programme" klaxon!. A book launch for @rachaelking70.bsky.social - part two of the awesome Violet and the Velvets series. wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/bo... It's on Thursday 28 August at Scorpio Books - get your free tix ASAP. ^DR