Longshot, but does anyone here use @QuickBooks advance payroll? I haven’t been able to access it for two days and I can’t pay my staff and they are saying they have no problems their end though they are trying to find out why I can’t get access. Help!!!

The hostility towards #transpeople on @bbcradio4 Women’s Hour is stomach turning. Well done @amnestyuk.bsky.social for staying calm & speaking sense

If you need a gift for a child, I'm part of an auction of SFF writers, money going to @goodlawproject.bsky.social and a South African LGBT charity. Please give out of all proportion with how much you like Loki. (Obv loki thinks this lot should go for £1m) #KidLitUK #TransRights

Dylan & Mouse is coming to life!! #newbook

@alcs.co.uk day! Thank you thank you! Authors if you aren’t registered, you are missing out! Bills to pay, alcs has saved the day

Be present in their lives. That’s it. And dont be an arse.

This is how billionaires show how much they care about working people. Stop voting for the nasty men!!!

Amazing!

Doing bookweek visits and my farm Job is going to be a lot this week BUT i have an excellent travel companion- 11 hours of this!

Trump has such a crush on Putin, it’s embarrassing

This was the moment I decided to write More of Me. In every spare moment i could.

The latest Read for Empathy collection has been launched. As always, it's full of absolutely superb books, including graphic novels, poetry, picturebooks and non-fiction. The work @empathylabuk.bsky.social are doing is incredibly important. More information here: www.empathylab.uk/rfe

My back is in spasm. Cannot move. Am sick with pain. Called doctor, within an hour my prescription is ready at the community pharmacy. When it works, it works #nhs

Very excited to reveal to you the amazing cover for Kitty and the Clifftop Peril written by me and illustrated by Jenny Lovlie. Published by OUP and out in May! It’s Kitty book 16! Look Jenny’s fabulous cover! @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

Celebrated the launch of #WorldOfWanda this weekend with my excellent author buddies @fionadunbar.bsky.social @catwrote.bsky.social @kathrynevans1.bsky.social @carog.bsky.social and #InbaliIsleres! The evening also included LASHINGS of book-chat, food & dancing... 📚🍛💃 @uclanpublishing.bsky.social

Happy book birthday to me and illustrator Jamie Bauza! Born today: LITTLE RHINO LOST, U.S. edition! Published by Crocodile Books @interlinkbooks.bsky.social The UK edition will be out in March, published by @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

Fab book launch party last night for the final book in the stunning Scarlett & Browne series by Jonathan Stroud. Lovely to see so many author pals there including @kathrynevans1.bsky.social Sarwat Chadda and Laura Ellen Anderson.

I haven't been booked for World Book Day in March! Astonishing, I know! Contact me if interested teriterry.jimdoweb.com/contact/

Swoopy do! The Bear and the Hare are at the Fair! Pb's take ages so I've been wishing the time away until Matt Hunt's fabulous illustrations can be revealed in all their technicolor glory! Out in May but you can always pre-order! #PB #primary #librarians Big thanks to the Crows and Amber Caraveo!

I still have some days available for school visits during World Book Day week! I can easily travel to London/ Birmingham/ Oxford and many other areas. Contact me to find out more or book me through Authors Aloud #primary #authors #teaching

For all those asking for more books for 12-14s, with 12-14 MCs, and for boys, I wrote this a while ago. It was Carnegie nominated and made into a TV series that won a BAFTA. Please buy it so it can finally earn out its minuscule advance. www.amazon.co.uk/Joe-All-Alon...

It's TONIGHT ! Still time to sign up and treat yourself to some fun and friendly CPD all about using wordless books in your settings 🤗📚 @readingrocks.bsky.social

The Northern Writers' Awards are OPEN for applications. I entered the same book twice: 2018 - got nowhere 2019 - won the Hachette Children's Novel award, got published. Take every roll of the dice you can, cos you never know which one will come up for you! newwritingnorth.com/northern-wri...

I see a woman & a loose dog. Me: is he friendly? Her: yes, yes, he’s fine. Reader, he bit my dog. Me: You said he was friendly! Her: you should put your dog on a lead if you’re worried. the solution to violence? Blame & curtail the victim. Me: F*ck off. Ive seen enough of that in the patriarchy.

You can preview the new collection coming here www.celestineandthehare.com/new-collection

You didn’t lie! Look at all you lovelies, just hanging around, talking books 🥰 im currently reading @evawongnava.bsky.social delicious The House of Little Sisters. What are you reading?

Im still exhausted by substack. Easiest way to get up to speed on how bluesky works anyone?

Right you bunch of trouble makers, i’m here. You better not have lied. Anyone calls me a bully, I’m going back in my cupboard