Just finished this wonderfully warm, inclusive and captivating story of friendship and reconciliation, exploring historical events not often covered in British children’s fiction - highly recommended! @janeenhayat.bsky.social @guppybooks.bsky.social

obviously I'm telling all my writer friends to enter this.

If anyone here is still on X, I'd be very grateful if you could vote for me on @primaryschoolbc (vote via the pinned tweet on their profile) x.com/janeen_hayat...

Great launch for @janeenhayat.bsky.social Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree. Folders with mysterious letters link the two girls and take them back to India and partition. History, friendship, identity and inheritance - a moving and absorbing read. #kidlitUK #readingforpleasure @guppybooks.bsky.social

There are a string of competitions coming up for unagented writers, including #UV26. This should be a really helpful workshop for putting in the best possible submission 👇🏽

It's publication day for Evie and Maryam! I thought it would save anticlimactic, but it's really not. It's really very exciting! Links to a lovely @booktrust.org.uk review and where to buy 👇🏽

It's publication day for Evie and Maryam's Family Tree! If you need a gift for the middle grade readers in your life... #MiddleGrade #ReadersOfBlueSky

@uvcompetition.bsky.social is a free writing competition, run by lovely volunteers and involving some heavy hitters. Pass it on to any unagented writers in your life!

FREE Writing competition launch event! Join the six @uvcompetition.bsky.social judges on May 22nd as they reveal what they're hoping to discover from the next round of the highly regarded @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Competition for unpublished writers of kids/YA lit. See the UV website for more details!

For the whole month of February, @bookshop-org.bsky.social is giving 10% of all sales to @booktrust.org.uk. What a great excuse to buy lots of books this month! Including, of course, pre-ordering Evie and Maryam 😉 (link below 👇🏽)

I'm so proud to reveal the cover for Evie and Maryam! Debasmita Dasgupta did such a beautiful job of capturing E&M, and I just love the colours. @guppybooks.bsky.social @ashliterary.bsky.social @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social

Very excited to share the announcement for EVIE AND MARYAM'S FAMILY TREE! When I first read this book, I fell in love with the burgeoning friendship between these two girls, their complicated family history, and the coolest older brother in the world, and I hope you will too.

It's official: Evie and Maryam will be released into the world on 8 May!