A plea! Readers, bloggers, reviewers I am so grateful for your support. If you enjoyed The Great Theatre Rescue (🤞) it would be great if you could post a review in that place where the river flows. I’m told it really helps 🙏

Thank you @vonprice.bsky.social for taking the time to review my books! Much appreciated🙏

Here's my latest round up of what's been happening in the world of children's books. It's been a busy month! There are links to World Book Day ideas, awards news plus research, free events and new books to tempt you. I hope it's helpful. #UKKidLit alibrarylady.blog/2025/03/01/r...

Delighted The Great Theatre Rescue has been selected by @literacytree.bsky.social to celebrate Women’s History Month 🙏

To be reviewed in @guardianbooks.bsky.social is the absolute pinnacle in my family!!!! Thank you @imogenrw.bsky.social 🤗

Thank you @bookcraic.bsky.social 🥰

The sparrows are warbling like mad in SE22! Unusual and lovely!

Featuring #TheAccidentalStowaway with fabulous cover by Jo Rioux @candlewickpress.bsky.social Thank you @popgoesthereader.bsky.social

I made these schokobrotchen - delicious sweet buns with chocolate pieces in them! They are Charley’s fave food in The Great Theatre Rescue! Out Feb 13 @faberchildrens.bsky.social

Thrilled with this review from @librarylady.bsky.social It’s made me very happy 🤗 @faberchildrens.bsky.social

Congratulations @jo-clarke.bsky.social !!!! Jo’s book Libby and the Egyptian Escapade is out today. Jo is a brilliant storyteller, librarian and champion of children’s books. Can’t wait to read! 👏💥😍

New year, new newsletter! If you're not signed up, you can here! But also if you're not checking email yet...here! It's about The Dark is Rising and NK Jemisin and why it's ok to be as subtle as a large rock to the head sometimes. #KidLitUK open.substack.com/pub/louiesto...

‘In Charley’s eyes, Wilbert Heaven was a god. Not only had he played all the best clubs in Harlem, he had met all the ‘greats’ and had actually seen the famous tap-dancing Nicholas Brothers performing first hand!’ The Great Theatre Rescue 13/02/25 @faberchildrens.bsky.social #ukkidlit #kidlituk

‘By day it looked nothing out of the ordinary. By night it was something special. Ablaze with twinkling lights spelling out The Wren in glamorous swirling letters. It was the smallest theatre in Soho, but also one of the best.’ The Great Theatre Rescue Feb 13th #KIDLITUK @faberchildrens.bsky.social

I'm looking for Creative Writing academics - do you know any here? I made a Starter Pack for those I've spotted already, but I know there must be many more (and my list skews female right now!). Reply to be added (or taken off, of course). Thanks! go.bsky.app/3Tumz8d #AcademicSky #writingcommunity

Thrilled to feature in this list by @lisayelon.bsky.social

I was 55 - still pinching myself 6 years later

Since nobody asked, i did a tik tok about online comedy vm.tiktok.com/ZGdFmes6W/

Have spent a rainy few days in Coniston, walking and visiting the homes of John Ruskin, William Wordsworth, and Beatrix Potter. This is Dorothy W’s special tea-cup - which cost a bit more than she anticipated - and meant she couldn’t afford to buy the kettle with which to make her tea ❤️

Sign up via the link below to join the #GhostGang for a ghostly chat about MG spooky stories on Friday 13th October at 8pm. Hosted on zoom the link will appear spookily in your inbox! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🖤👻🧙‍♀️🐈‍⬛🎃🖤

I was over the moon when I heard that The Secret Starling is going to be DANCED by the youth team at albertadancetheatre.com and tickets are now on sale!!!! If you happen to live near Calgary and you like stories full of ballet, betrayal and long-lost family then give it a go!

Lovely weekend at #CheltLitFest with my mum and sisters. Listened to some amazing writers talking about their work (highlight was #KateAtkinson) and today #ClareHunter and #AarathiPrasad discussing the politics of embroidery. Plus I got to sign some of my books in the @waterstones.bsky.social tent 🤗

Hello #kidlit_intro ! I write MG historical mystery adventures published by Faber rep’d by @lucyirvine93.bsky.social follow me and I’ll follow you back 🤗