I am going to be helping the wonderful Rebecca Schiller run the Mothers Who Write community It’s a community for writers who happen to be mothers and trans/non-binary parents full of the best people. An alternative to the old boys' network motherswhowrite.co.uk www.instagram.com/motherswhowr...

I am beside myself that The World Between the Rain has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing @carnegiemedals.bsky.social. This one is special because it's nominated by librarians - always my favourite people @cilip.bsky.social #carnegies2026 @everywithwords.bsky.social

There'll be a new Storyshaped episode tomorrow, but while you wait: have you listened to @mariesadulak.bsky.social yet? She chatted to us last week, and it was fab! Make sure to like and subscribe, so you don't miss an episode. Let's get Storyshaped! shows.acast.com/storyshaped/...

It is my birthday this week so I am eating cake for lunch every day

This week's Storyshaped was a magical, mystical, mysterious, and marvellous chat with Ellen Ryan, Queen of Irish Mythology. @susancahill.bsky.social and I fell under her spell - perhaps you will, too! Check it out wherever you get your podcasts, or at the link below: shows.acast.com/storyshaped/...

Fellow children's authors and illustrators: if you want to counterbalance JKR funding hatred against trans people, this org needs money. #KidLitUK

I'll be at @ilfdublin.bsky.social this May! 16th May I'll be talking about finding inspiration in myth, folklore, West Cork, and rain 17th May myself and @sineadohart.bsky.social are doing a LIVE Storyshaped podcast with @kieranlarwood.bsky.social Booking links here: linktr.ee/susancahillw...

This is a great idea @louiestowell.bsky.social. I think we should def include this as one of our standard questions @sineadohart.bsky.social What happens if you’re both though? Are you forced to wander alone at the edges of the world?

Me and @susancahill.bsky.social did another podcast this week - and we spoke to the fantastic @alastairc.com all about his Storyshaped life, his own work, and his work yet to come. Have a listen! It's a good 'un. shows.acast.com/storyshaped/...

This sounds cool!

ICYMI yesterday, what with one thing and another, we interviewed the amazing @celinekiernan.bsky.social on Storyshaped Podcast! @susancahill.bsky.social and myself were made up with glee, so we were. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts! shows.acast.com/storyshaped/...

Go on a journey of emotional discovery with @susancahill.bsky.social's magical portal story, The World Between the Rain. This PDF from @booksuperhero2.bsky.social contains lots of teaching ideas around the book for UKS2

So chuffed to have won this lovely award! I visited these students recently and they were so creative and engaged so I’m really delighted to have their seal of approval 💙🩵💙

This gorgeous review is making me cry! 🌦️

How do I sum this one up? A fairytale on speed! A story of daring originality confidently controlled and peppered with rich and unexpected images, and a touch of ‘Stranger Things’. You’re left with a useful reminder of the benefits of a jolly good cry. @susancahill.bsky.social

Otherworldly,mesmerising, intense.Epic!Loved reading the waves of this story,diving to & from its heartbreak of a core. There sure are fragments of gods in that rain as this is another irish book I've read recently to be so magically inspired!🌊💙📚 @susancahill.bsky.social #KidLit #ReadingForPleasure

Love to hear about a new children's books podcast! Can't wait to listen 📚❤️

Congratulations to the wonderful @racheldelahaye.bsky.social's brilliant book! So well deserved!

Love that @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social's first novel in translation is from Irish to English!

So enjoyed this wonderful chat with @peterbunzl.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

DELIGHTED to sign the David Bowie poster!

It was such a pleasure and a privilege to chat to Y7 and Y8 in Glenthorne High School today and to meet the wonderful @lucasjmaxwell.bsky.social in person! Thank you for inviting me ❤️

Who would @sharadakeats.bsky.social invite to a literary dinner party? And how do we get to her tropical island? All these answers and more in the latest episode of Storyshaped! Available wherever you get your podcasts Listening links: shows.acast.com/storyshaped

New Storyshaped episdoe! This week, myself and @sineadohart.bsky.social sit down with debut YA author Sharada Keats @sharadakeats.bsky.social for a fun and illuminating chat! Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3m83... Or wherever you get your podcasts!

I have a spare copy of this brilliant book - essential reading for everyone involved in children's books - so I thought I'd run a giveaway on here. Simply repost to enter & follow all the excellent folk in the post below, along with @booksforkeeps.bsky.social who publish the ongoing columns 🙏UK only

It's the final of @mrripleysbooks.bsky.social's book cover competition. Please give Holly Ovenden's gorgeous cover for The World Between the Rain some love, or indeed, one of the other fab covers! www.mrripleysenchantedbooks.com/2025/02/mr-r...

Months ago, I meant to send a list of books to @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @restispolitics.bsky.social and @sueatkins.bsky.social for children and teens that look overtly or otherwise at politics and regimes. I lost that list, so am curating recs that inform + champion critical thinking. Pls add.

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources. On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names. dan rigiššu “loud is his bark” munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe” mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

I loved doing this!! What an honour!

Myself and @sineadohart.bsky.social had the immense privilege of speaking with @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social this week on Storyshaped, & it was a heartfelt, moving, & very fun conversation about finding your own voice, fighting against prejudice, and (not) fitting in. Spotify: bit.ly/4jvn8n7

Thank you @afharrold.com!

Just a reminder that the books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes absolutely no-one at all. They are BOOKS FOR EVERYONE - and you can never, ever be too old to read them, and to love them!

When you're a children's writer trying to make a video but also have a child....

New episode of Storyshaped podcast, from me and @sineadohart.bsky.social - with our amazing guest @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, author of Catfish Rolling. Listen (Spotify): open.spotify.com/episode/1DH7... Listen (Apple): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

I am absolutely over the moon to be longlisted for the Branford Boase Award along with my wonderful editor Mikka @everywithwords.bsky.social I'm so grateful that my watery book about sisters, magic, portals to other worlds, loss and grief, and West Cork is included in this fabulous list! 🌧💙🌧

‘As portals to other worlds go, the West Cork rain is up there with Platform 9¾ and the wardrobe into Narnia in terms of imaginative plot devices’ Does it get better than your portal compared to the wardrobe in Narnia Thank you @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Thank you so much for this gorgeous review ❤️

This was such a great conversation that we had on Storyshaped with @annseilin1.bsky.social and these are important thoughts for anyone who has ever made art

Thoughts on publishing and being terminally midlist. I spoke about this briefly on a podcast with the fantastic @sineadohart.bsky.social and @susancahill.bsky.social but as Christmas comes closer and Best Of end of year lists begin to make the rounds I've been thinking about it again. A 🧵

WE'RE BACK, Storyshapers! Today's Storyshaped episode is a MEGA AWESOME EPIC BUMPER Christmas gift guide - and when we say 'gift', we mean 'books'. Obviously. Available wherever you get your podcasts!

WE'RE BACK, Storyshapers! Today's Storyshaped episode is a MEGA AWESOME EPIC BUMPER Christmas gift guide - and when we say 'gift', we mean 'books'. Obviously.

A huge thank you to @susancahill.bsky.social for sending us some fab #TheWorldBetweenTheRain bookmarks to go into our future #BookBox #giveaways. We can't wait to send them out! If any other authors/illustrators/publishers/ bookshops have bookmarks or such to spare, they'd be greatly appreciated 😁

Doing an epic giveaway over on my Instagram! www.instagram.com/p/DDXR5KVMnc...

Well this is a delightful surprise! And even more so because chosen by students. Thank you to all those who chose The World Between the Rain! And what amazing company to be in!

I'm going to try a Bluesky giveaway. Don't know how it's going to go - but I'm giving all three of these books to a school or a family. Cozy crime for 9 - 13 year olds. One winner, UK only. To enter tell me something about Christmas that makes you happy. @nosycrow.bsky.social #Ukkidlit

Gift guide: for that person in your life who can’t stop searching for magical doorways.

Thank you @lovereading4kids.bsky.social for including The World Between the Rain as one of your Books of the Year and also a Book of the Month for November! www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/blog/the-lov...

Hey @nytimes.com a list of the year’s fiction and nonfiction without any books for young people isn’t really all the year’s “notable books” now, is it?

This is so much the beginning of something - While writing it my mind has gone blank - and I can't find quite a few people on here who I thought were here - suggestions please - tag people below the post go.bsky.app/V2ynqEL