So I’m writing a pretty complicated action scene with lots of moving parts and an emotional bit inspired by a traumatic childhood scene in one of favourite all time films. #writerywednesday #amwriting #mammoths #neverendingstory

For #WorldRhinoDay I have made a #StorySack around @candygourlay.bsky.social & #JamieBauza book #LittleRhinoLost publidhedby #BarryOtterBooks …

It’s #talklikeapirateday - so here is a page of a WIP picture book I’m trying to finish. ARRRRRRRRR #illustration #crayons #ink #acrylics #chalk #ipad #pirate #treasure #mammoth #dodo #picturebook #writing

September is the official Be Kind to Writers Month! #BeKindToWritersMonth #September #writers #authors #illustrators #editors #agents #creatives #kidslit #passitforward #kindness

To all the writers out there today, I hope you tell beautiful stories, and that great beverages and cakes come your way to fuel your creativity. #writerywednesday #amwriting #amediting #cake #coffee #childreliterature

This a fascinating debate about fictionalised history weighing up its impact of whether its blending of factual and imagined elements is decremental to truth or a positive inspirational and learning tool… www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

The first thing I ever wrote - the first time I ever submitted - I was Honorary Mentioned in Undiscovered Voices. It gave me the confidence to continue to write and opened up many opportunities. Enter now. undiscoveredvoices.com #writingforchildren #competition #undiscoveredvoices

A story sack tin celebration of this year marking 70 years since Miffy was first published, posted to day on the Birthday of her creator Dick Bruna! #miffy #Dickbruna #storysack #picturebook #illustration #kidsbooks #readforpleasure

Hard hat off, metaphorical writing hat on. #amwriting #firstdeaft #kidslit #middlegrade

Current reading @katywatsonauthor.bsky.social #thethreedahilas #readforpleasure

Baby Holly the mammoth calf I painted, at the @thehillsgroup.bsky.social Cerney Wick #paleontology dig. The #tuskforce team took the duties of mammoth husbandry seriously & sheltered her from the elements. She’s now been rehomed and is living happily with her adopted herd in Dorset.

After three weeks of digging at the @thehillsgroup.bsky.social Cerney Wick #paleontology site with the #TuskForce team, and I’m back at my desk swapping my hard hat for my metaphorical writing hat. #amwriting #kidslit #middlegrade

The awesome @SallyAnn_Spence is posting videos about the @HillsQuarry Cerney Wick palaeontology dig. @TuskForseMammothDig2025 on YouTube. This is mine 😳 Here’s the link to my interview… youtu.be/7yR2yftZh4Q?...

Today’s #MammothMonday is a celebration of a very recently unearthed mammoth calf’s tooth for the Hills Quarry Products Cerney Wick site by the #tuskforce team last week. It’s beautiful but it also looks like a mammoth calf! Sally Hollingworth

Procrastination mammoth sized.

Every month I mine the web for nuggets of writerly wisdom and send to other pre-pub authors. Today is post and delivery day…

A year ago today I was digging mammoths. Will be migrating back to the site very soon! #tuskforce #mammothGraveyard

Lovely evening of celebrations - the end of an era, the beginning of something new. Surrounded by folks with energy and enthusiasm. Thank you all former SCBWI-BI volunteers. ❤️

#fossilfriday snake stone - the casting of the inside of a ammonite shell. Love the juxtaposition of natural history and social history! It can be found at @nhm-london.bsky.social #abingdon

#mammothmonday tip - always travel with an emergency mammoth. You never know when you’ll need one! 🦣🧳😉🤣

#fossilfriday - not strictly fossil but fossil-adjacent The Dodo Gallery at Natural History Museum in Port Louis Mauritius. 🦤🦤🦤🇲🇺🇲🇺

Another book birthday! A really need to read book one that I’ve had on my TBR pile for months! Happy Book Birthday #philipkavvadias @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social

Some amazing book birthdays today!!! @brunadeluca.bsky.social @georgekirktales.bsky.social #AnaGomez @gregjenner.bsky.social #RikkinParekh enjoy all! 🎂📘

Family Holiday Reading post 1/4 Featuring @jasperfforde.bsky.social @nikkimarmery.bsky.social #AnaHuang

I got my very first long listing and much need confidence boost from Undiscovered Voices! It is such a great competition, and definitely worth checking out if you write kids books!

On holiday I chuckled whilst reading my book, as it mentioned Mastodon’s, the my husband showed me that at the same time mammoths were mentioned on the page he was reading g in his book! Happy mammoth moment! 🦣📘

Last year we went to Italy on our family holiday and found loads of Mammoths. This year we did Mauritius 🇲🇺 no mammoths, so I smuggled one along. Much to the annoyance of the family! #mammoth #holiday

Submissions open today for the 10th Undiscovered Voices! If you are an unagented and unpublished SCBWI member in the UK or EU you should check it. The anthology has launched the writing careers of hundreds of writers. Can’t wait to see who we will discover! @uvcompetition.bsky.social

Next #fathersday #bookrec in celebration of #pridemonth this beautiful #picturebook #MyTwoDaddies by #gareth.peter & #garyparsons #puffinbooks

As will have no internet over weekend, here’s my Father’s Day book recommendations. #MyDadUsedToBeCool by #flyingeyebooks #keith_negley largely as my hubby had to see his bike so we could buy a Volvo ready for the arrival of first spawn! #fathersday #pucturebooks #bookrecs

Trying my hand at some videos. Here’s a budget story sack one! 🦖 themed!

More edits with great coffee #HarrisAndHoole #amersham #edits #mammoth #kidsbooks #amwriting 🦣🦣✍️☕️☕️

Lovely pooping in to #littlebookshopcookham to collect some books and have a lovely bookish chat and catch up. Got these beauties by @nikkimarmery.bsky.social @jasperfforde.bsky.social

Simon & Schuster Children's has signed a two-book deal for an "epic" debut middle-grade series from SJ Poyton. 👇 #BookSky

Bit of research reading! #amwriting #mammothrider #deextinction #stem #clifi #middlegrade #kidslit #research #booktwo #nonfiction #benmezrich #joyomeara @atriabooks.bsky.social 🦣🦣🦣🦣🦣

It June! #Pride #mammoth #illustration

When you find a rainbow @bigbobblehats hat that your kids have put in the charity shop bag, and are trying to work out how to fit it into your book so you can wear it at author visits!!!