In today's author spotlight, @bexhogan.bsky.social tells us about her enchanting story 'Nettle', inspired by 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' & traditional fairytales, and shortlisted in our 11+ category. @zephyrbooks.bsky.social youtu.be/uH78mVE9AEs?...

Just a reminder that it's the last day to get 25% off when you pre-order the OWL KING paperback at Waterstones. Use code FEB26 at checkout! #KidLitUK #BookSky 💙📚 www.waterstones.com/book/owl-kin...

I'm so excited to be attending Farnham Literary Festival on 12th March 2026 where I will be talking all things 'Faeries and Fantasy'. If you are able to come along, I would love to see you! Event starts at 18.30 and all details in link. #BookSky 💙📚 farnhamliteraryfestival.co.uk/event/faerie...

If you're waiting for the paperback copy of OWL KING to be published, I have good news! If you pre-order from Waterstones online and enter the code FEB26 at check out before end of Fri 20th Feb, you will get 25% off! 🦉👑 #UKKidLit #BookSky 💙📚 #KidLitUK www.waterstones.com/book/owl-kin...

Absolutely thrilled to see NETTLE on the @sparkbookaward.bsky.social shortlist for 11+ 🥰 Huge congrats to all the other shortlisted authors in all categories! #kidlituk #UKKidLit #BookSky 💙📚

This is very lovely - Nettle is on the @sparkbookaward.bsky.social longlist for 11+ fiction! ❤️

#BookReview: BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE VANISHING KINGDOM by Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social @piccadilly-press.bsky.social #UKMG #MiddlegradeMonday sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/b...

Forget Black Friday and celebrate #BookFriday on Nov 28th! This campaign celebrates the best books in our schools and libraries! My Reading Champion recommendation is WITCHSPARK by Dominique Valente 🥰 @booksfortopics.bsky.social #ReadingChampions #BooksForTopics #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

Cover reveal! I loved writing #TheWoodWhereMagicGrows & there’s a whole lot more to come from the Treetoppers! #TheWoodWhereStoriesSing takes the children on a thrilling adventure with Crest the driftwood horse, to save Wildtop Wood. Coming 2 July 2026 - you can preorders now!

Absolutely over the moon that NETTLE has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing! It's such a special award, I can't quite believe it! Huge thank you to @carnegiemedals.bsky.social and to my publisher @zephyrbooks.bsky.social 🥰 And congrats to all the other nominees! #Carnegies2026

Come and join me, Ova Ceren and @hollyrace.bsky.social tomorrow at Waterstones Cambridge at 6pm, where we will be having a lovely time talking books and fantasy! We'd love to see you there! 🥰

Happy publication day to @bexhogan.bsky.social's #OwlKing. It was a delight to return to the Faery Realms and learn more about the different courts. This is a lyrical, atmospheric tale with teeth. Out today, published by @zephyrbooks.bsky.social snarhookedonbooks.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o... #YA

A very happy publication day to @bexhogan.bsky.social and her new book #OwlKing 😍 A hauntingly beautiful new faery tale, full of romance and magic, deception, and survival! Out today, published by @zephyrbooks.bsky.social

It's publication day and OWL KING is finally flying out into the world! It's a tale of the devotion of sisters, and the power stories have to save us. If you like dark faerytales, please do check it out! Published by @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Cover by @iamlaurael.bsky.social 🦉👑 tinyurl.com/96sve97z

#BookReview: OWL KING by Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social #UKYA sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/b...

I am so looking forward to this FREE online event on Oct 9th with Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children's Books. If you know any secondary schools who might be interested, please do pass along. I will be talking about my favourite things - fairytales and folklore! #UKKidLit #BookSky 💙📚

I picked up a proof of Owl King by @bexhogan.bsky.social at the @zephyrbooks.bsky.social stand at #YLGConference & it prompted me to go back in my tbr pile to find Nettle. I'm so glad I did because it is a wonderful story (beautiful covers by Laura El). Classic faerytale elements woven beautifully.

"In this dangerous fantasy kingdom, Nettle discovers—too late—her part in an age-old love story... and the price she will pay..." Enter to win a copy of @bexhogan.bsky.social's "Nettle" from Tundra Books #💙📚 #Booksky

I'm so happy to be working with @authorsalouduk.bsky.social for my school visits! Whether you're a primary school looking for a fun talk centred around knights and Lego, or a secondary wanting to chat Faeries or Pirates,then I would love to come and see you! 🥰

If you're a fan of all things YA then be sure to check out #CampYA2025 where you'll find Asli Jensen and @bexhogan.bsky.social on the programme. Information on tickets and the full line up can be viewed here: campya.org/guests/

Really looking forward to taking part in Camp YA this year! Come and join us, so many online panels to enjoy! ❤️

Great to see OWL KING is a number one hot new release in YA Fairytales and Folklore! Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?! #KidLitUK #BookSky 💙📚

Thrilled to spy Scandal in a HOT deals US bookbub for July - perfect timing with the current heatwave!🔥 So if deceptions and duels, secrets and masquerades and perhaps a Grand Masked Ball at the Palace of Versailles too .. sound your kind of escape why not snag a bargain?! ⚔️✨

It's paperback publication day for NETTLE! 🍃🧚‍♀️

The BLACK HEAT ebook is currently only 99p on kindle - what a bargain! This standalone YA fantasy follows three strangers during a time of war - a princess, a blacksmith and a midwife. As they each seek revenge, so their fates become entwined. #KidLitUK #BookSky 💙📚 #kindle tinyurl.com/49rdxxd2

Over on @ukyaspotlight.bsky.social: Interview with Nathanael Lessore, Chris Bonnello, and Bex Hogan #UKYA #UKYASpotlight @chrisbonnello.bsky.social @bexhogan.bsky.social @zephyrbooks.bsky.social @hotkeybooks.bsky.social @neemtreepress.bsky.social ukyaspotlight.co.uk/2025/07/01/a...

The paperback edition of NETTLE is coming next week! I absolutely adore the slight differences to the hardback, both are so beautiful in their own right! Pre-order your copy now! #KidLitUK #BookSky 📚💙

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books of 2025; Part Two sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/m...

It’s here! 🥳 My tribute to every Heyer novel I ever read, and a good dose of Fairfax heroine fun too! I loved writing Sophie, Phoebe’s fashion-conscious sister, who has the most ramshackle, scandalous adventure of a lifetime across Paris… www.instagram.com/p/DJ_BbkjI2g...

Exciting news - OWL KING is now on Netgalley! Lovely to see it's one of the most requested teen and YA titles - thanks so much to everyone who's supporting it! 🥰

[1] My new book #THIRST will be published by @pushkinpress.com on 11 Sept. It's a teen folk horror about a malevolent river worshipped for generations by the village of Maimsbury. I can't wait for you all to get swept away with Gorse and Faye. This gorgeous cover's by Natalie Smillie. ->

Take a journey into the Faery Realms with NETTLE. A Midsummer Night's Dream meets Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans. Out in beautiful hardback now! 🥰

Delighted that BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE WEATHER WITCH is a Kindle Monthly Deal through the whole of May. You can grab the ebook for only 99p, what a bargain! #KidLitUK #Kindle #BookSky 📚💙 tinyurl.com/4aeraz9y

Hans Christian Andersen’s 'The Wild Swans' meets 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in #NettleBook by @bexhogan.bsky.social 🧚‍♀️ If you've not read it yet, this is your sign to✨ 📖 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #BankHolidayReads

Lights go out, walls come tumbling down. Do they? Maybe. Maybe not. You'll have to read it. Writing a sequel is HARD, and I am so happy to announce this news! #ElectricLifeSurge.

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And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here. So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.

⭐️ COVER REVEAL ⭐️ I'm so excited to share the stunning cover for OWL KING illustrated by the amazing @iamlaurael.bsky.social 😍😍 Set in the same faery realms as NETTLE, it's a tale of sisters & stories, love & betrayal. Out 9th Oct 25 and available to preorder now! @zephyrbooks.bsky.social #UKKidLit

A dark, captivating, tale of deception and survival, set in the same faery world as #Nettle . Calling all fans of @bexhogan.bsky.social we have an exciting cover reveal for you! #OwlKing is coming in hardback on 9th October. We're obsessed with this stunning cover from @iamlaurael.bsky.social 😍🦉

A comic about a particularly perilous World Book Day from a weeks back (Doctors are watching me now dw!) (Also shoutout to @bexhogan.bsky.social for being an absolute real one and dropping everything to help me after only knowing me for 24 hours. Buy her books!)

It's publication day! 🥳🥳 So excited that BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE WEATHER WITCH is finally out in the world! Illustrated by Hannah McCaffery 🥰 Huge thank you to everyone @piccadilly-press.bsky.social especially my amazing editor, Ruth Bennett. And thanks to my agent, Davinia Andrew-Lynch 🥰🥰

#BookReview: BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE WEATHER WITCH by Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social #UKMG #MiddleGradeMonday sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/b...

Only two weeks to go until BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE WEATHER WITCH is out in the world! Have you preordered your copy yet?! #KidLitUK #booksky 💙📚

My author copies of BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE WEATHER WITCH are here and they are gorgeous!! 😍😍 Illustrated as always by the brilliant Hannah McCaffery, this third book in the series is out 27th March, so please do pre-order! #KidLitUK #bookshop 💙📚

There's still one week left to listen to the BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS audiobook for free over on the World Book Day website. It's time for the princess to save the knights! Narrated by Aysha Kala 💙 #KidLitUK www.worldbookday.com/stories/bron...

Just a reminder that you can listen to the BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS audiobook for free over on the World Book Day website for another couple of weeks. Perfect for any young knights (7+) who crave adventure! Narrated by Aysha Kala 💙 #KidLitUK www.worldbookday.com/stories/bron...

Its publication day for Unicorns in Uniforms: Dragon Inferno 🎉🦄🚒🧯🧙‍♀️🎉 Total dream come true! Thanks so much to Steve Wood, @uclanpublishing.bsky.social, my editor Kathy Webb and my agent Alice Williams. Also to all my writing friends, my writing mentors and my very patient family!

Did you know that as part of World Book Day 2025 there are FREE audiobooks you can download from their website? I'm so excited to share that BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS is one of the books available until March, so why not check it out! #KidLitUK www.worldbookday.com/stories/bron...

Happy 1st Birthday, Bronte! It's been a whole year since she came galloping into the world to save the day, and I've had the best time sharing the Bronte love with young readers! Two adventures out, two to come - who's with us?! ⚡🐎⚡ #KidLitUK #booksky 💙📚

My big edit is done - hurrah! So do I now work on my new young MG idea, my new upper MG idea, my new YA idea, or my new adult idea? (The answer is of course, all of them, because they're all so shiny and pretty and who needs sleep anyway?!)