How does pride make YOU feel?! Love this pic from Leighton Buzzard Pride on Saturday! 📸 Tony Margiocchi

What an absolute privilege to host Youth Pride in the library today in partnership with United Youth Alliance, featuring the always-amazing @mamagstories.bsky.social . Huge thanks to @literacy-trust.bsky.social too for the book giveaways ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷

I know you've all been wondering where you can see me in panto this year, so I'm excited to tell you that you can catch me at BEAM Hertford in Beauty and the Beast! If you can't wait until Christmas, I'll be at the venue in a few weeks with my own show! Tickets for both are at the link in my bio!

I had the most beautiful exchange at the end of today's story time in Wandsworth! Little Person 1: You're a rainbow! Me: Thank you! Little Person 2: We're all rainbows!! Nursery school cheers in unison. 🥲

Happy Pride Month everyone! Here's to four fabulous weeks of lifting each other up and celebrating who we are!!

The Magic Bookmark hits the road again next Saturday, starting at the Cornerstone Arts Centre in Didcot! Tickets here: www.cornerstone-arts.org/whats/magic-...

The energy at this morning's show was INCREDIBLE! This is so special!

Pic 1. May 30th 2018 - doing my first ever story time to a family that arrived by accident. Pic 2. May 30th 2025 - second appearance at the Hay Festival, first time reading my own book there. It's been quite a journey and I am so grateful to every single person who has come on it with me!

Out of office is on! See you at the Hay Festival on Friday!

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Happy Elmer Day to all who celebrate.

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A week on Friday (May 30th) I will be celebrating my 7th anniversary of storytelling by making my 2nd appearance at the @hayfestival.bsky.social . It's a huge honour to be invited back to read #OhYesIAm! especially as last year's festival was where I got to tell the world it was being published!

When the #WestEndFleaMarket and #FACup fall on the same day, I stand up and do what I have to do. Well done Crystal Palace - it seems that some of you are a bit better at footie than me!

Listen, this queer history book for teens by David Roberts is probably one of the most important things to be published this year. There's not enough words in the world to express how I feel about this book - but I did give it a good go over on my insta.

Far be it from me to say I influenced the outcome of the FA Cup, but that one goal...

I'm looking for to being back at the West End Flea Market on Saturday, helping raise money for Acting for Others! I'll be joining a dazzle of dames to entertain the crowds and rubbing shoulders with the casts of shows like Six and Mamma Mia! Come and join us!

I'm very excited to be returning to read some CBeebies Bedtime Stories at Gloworm Festival in August - I feel like the luckiest panto dame in the world!

I've very excited to be returning to read some CBeebies Bedtime Stories at Gloworm Festival in August - I feel like the luckiest panto dame in the world!

POV: it's story time at White Post Farm with my bestie Elmer the Patchwork Elephant!

Wore my new Irregulat Choice shoes for the first time today and had the best care home gig ever! Coincidence? I think not!

Happy publication day to this wonderful book! #AYearOfPrideAndJoy

Not long until I head back (?!?!?!) to the @hayfestival.bsky.social! I'm very excited to be reading #OhYesIAm! and talking all things panto! I can't believe this is my second time performing at this iconic event! I am one very lucky dame!

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Just seen @spiescomedy.bsky.social and it is one of the FUNNIEST things I've ever seen! As a fan of classic British farces it hit all the right boxes and then some. It's like watching 'Allo 'Allo and Noises Off, but for a 2020s audience.

I grew up in Plymouth and Bristol, although you'd never tell from my accent. But I just realised, as I opened my curtains and looked at the sunrise, that the way I say 'beautiful' when I'm happy is a dead giveaway!

There's just a week to go until #AYearOfPrideAndJoy is published by @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social I'm very proud to feature alongside (other) icons such as Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes and Tom Daley. Thanks to @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social for inviting me to take part! Get pre-ordering!

Looking for an indie bookshop that puts their stock where their mouth is? @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social has never stocked JK, is hugely supportive of trans authors, and can order in anything to be posted worldwide. Give em your money.

Today is a good day to share Theo Parish's beautiful #Homebody. Only a trans person can understand what it is to be trans - so it's vital that we listen to their stories. Even as an ally, this autobiographical novel really opened my eyes. The audiobook is beautiful too.

I am so lucky that I have got to share some very special moments with some very special people over the last few years! If you're thinking about getting married, have you considered adding some panto dame flare to proceedings?! If not - why not?!

I'm performing The Magic Bookmark at the Federation of Children's Book Groups conference tonight and I'm very excited to see Oh Yes I Am! stocked alongside some incredible books courtesy of the Norfolk Children's Book Centre!

Lovely find at the Waterstones in Islington today. Dunno, looks good... 👀

I can't believe it's been a whole year since me and The Magic Bookmark took NYC by storm! What an incredible experience that was!

LONDON! I'm bringing my storytelling panto The Magic Bookmark to the Questors Theatre in Ealing THIS SATURDAY at 1pm! Join me to discover why inclusive stories are so important. There's original music, terrible jokes and lots of joining in! Ticket link below!

Happy Mother's Day to my number one x

Here's some photos from the wings of the Beck Theatre to celebrate #WorldTheatreDay! I don't know if you can tell, but panto really is my happy place!

Musical theatre, romance, drama, and a dead mum giving her son advice through the medium of a self-help book? I could not have loved #DontDieAloneLucasCook more! Brilliant work from @thegeorgelester.bsky.social , thanks to Cloudy Day Publishing and Pride Book Tours for my copy!

Something incredible happened yesterday! Over the last two years I've har an idea for a middle grade novel. I've tried to start it several times, but I've always stopped after a few pages. Yesterday - every detail flooded into my brain! So I've REALLY started this time!

Happy first day of spring everyone! Thanks to Chiddingstone Castle for the perfect impromptu photoshoot backdrop, and to my dad for realising that we weren't going anywhere until he'd traipsed around taking pictures of me.

Panto really is for everyone! I don't just read to children, I share stories with grown-ups of all ages; because no one is too old to be told they're wonderful!

Its publication day for Artezans: The Whispering World! Thank you so everyone who has read and supported the trilogy so far - I hope this middle instalment doesn’t break your heart too badly. ✨🐱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📝🌿🌊

I went to see The Devil Wears Prada last night - a musical about a girl who has no fashion sense. Guess which character had the same bedspread as me... 🤦🏼‍♀️

Thanks to everyone at Chiddingstone Castle for an absolutely fantastic end to my first World Book Week as a published author! I think you'll agree it was the perfect setting for a glamorous dame!

I had a wonderful time sharing a stage with ACTUAL WEST END LEGENDS last night. And of course I got them to have a pic with mine and Toto's very theatrical book!

My world book day outfit was a joy to wear. The kids loved this panto dame interpretation inspired by Oh Yes I Am by @mamagstories.bsky.social and Toto #worldbookday #kidlit

What a fantastic end to #TheMagicBookmark's half-term tour - sharing the stage with this lovely lot at 53Two in Manchester! Big thanks to the Debra Simmons School of Dance for taking part so enthusiastically! Well, you can't do a panto without a dance school, can you?!

Some more lovely #TheMagicBookmark feedback, from this week's shows at Greenwich Theatre. I'm so lucky that I get to have this kind of impact on people while doing what I love! Panto IS for EVERYONE and CAN change lives! 🥰

Performing at Greenwich Theatre has been on my bucket list for years... so to take my own show there and open with a SELL OUT was pretty epic! More tomorrow (with tickets available!)

It's a little while since I've needed to engage in any Valentine's Day traditions... I think I'm almost there, but something seems off? 🎄 x ❤️