Hey guess what? I've started a creative studio with three of the best people to ever do it. @mairispaceship.com , @katboo.bsky.social and Rowan Bishop! Meet @heft.studio! heft.studio We’ve launched with a new game Spy Club, created in collaboration with Yoto 🎉🔎🎉

Had SUCH a nice time chatting with a bunch of novelists / game writers for this including @mallorymarlowe.bsky.social @naomialderman.bsky.social @joedunthorne.bsky.social @sharnajackson.com @jimmunroe.net Jon from @inkle.co et al www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

What a joy it was to help judge this fantastic @booktrust.org.uk competition with @sharnajackson.com! There were so many brilliant entries, but Jessica's really stood out - huge congrats, the prize is well deserved! #BookTrustRepresents

Massive, massive thank you to @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com for not only bringing Choose Your Own Adventure books back into print, but also sending me the series. I love them, I am obsessed ❤️❤️

So last year went against the grain and posted my favourite reads of the previous year in Feb rather than end of Dec. And it continues. Some brilliant reads of 2024 and hopefully something in there you haven’t read yet. tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/2...

Calling all teachers to enter their class in The Book That Represents Me competition @booktrust.bsky.social www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p.... Guest judges are @sharnajackson.com & @michaelmann.bsky.social with MOST AMAZING PRIZES inc £3000 of books (thank you @enterprisemobility.bsky.social)

At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.

The Palestinian-made game Dreams on a Pillow is 413 dollars and 13 backers short of respectively 60K raised and 1,000 supporters. Who wants to help push it over towards those milestones? launchgood.com/1948

By me, in @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n... << inc @dapsdraws.bsky.social @melindasalisbury.com @redbreastedbird.bsky.social @serenakpatel.bsky.social and more

Absolutely the fuck not

London! I’ll be chit chatting at this months V&A Friday Late “Wild Digits” alongside a heck of a line up. If you’re about then please do come say hello. Nov 29, 6:30pm, Free, more details hither: www.vam.ac.uk/event/k9xoYe...

I curate Ensemble with @londongamesfest.bsky.social - we’re back for 2025 🎉 Are you a UK-based game creative/professional from an underrepresented ethnicity? Let us showcase+celebrate you at #LGF25 and beyond! Nominate your friends, colleagues or yourself by Monday 16 December bit.ly/3O9ujCJ

This is good from Joan Aiken on a danger that every children's writer is likely to encounter.

This must be so frustrating for people getting their accounts marked as problematic amid all the other horrors.

Alright! Started working on a literary agent starter pack on here, for all my writer friends out there! Follow along and see what folks are looking for. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

For those of you looking for authors of middle grade children's books, we've got you covered here: go.bsky.app/RwXPjHm Still adding! #kidlituk

My map of children's independent bookshops is updated regularly. Most provide an online service and they're all run by people who can make well-informed book recommendations. Make sure you support your local one if you want to keep it. Any missing, please let me know. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

I’m not one to stan but I LOVE @levarburton.bsky.social. Years ago now, I created ‘Looking with LeVar’, a kids audio guide for The Broad in LA for its opening. He was the best. So kind and generous and warm and lovely and supportive. I think you can still listen: www.thebroad.org/tours/lookin...

tell ‘em @kibblesmith.com

Your hair is your crown, wear it proud! These last couple months have been a blur! Debut picture book ‘Kara’ out in all good bookstores now 💛 #KidsLit #KaraBook #DiverseBooks

(Me, genius) I will do this task later when it’s less convenient

Just made my first starter pack! Authors with dogs. Applications welcome, cute pictures encouraged for vetting purposes 😂 go.bsky.app/5CYu6mE

Had a handful of homophobic/transphobic messages here today because I’ve created a Starter Pack supporting LGBTQIA+ writers. Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be. go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W

I've put together a #starterpack of illustrators based in, or focused on, UK publishing bsky.app/starter-pack... Do let me know if your name should be there :) #kidlit #kidlitUK #UKkidlit #kidliART #illustrator #illustrators

Here's the beginnings of a starter pack of people working on, working in, thinking about, working-class literature. Writers and critics and allies and groups - please send me more names of accounts on Bluesky & I'll add them of course. go.bsky.app/UQVX5Lb

Hello! Reposting a thread of starter packs to help anyone spending their Sunday trying to find UK children’s book people. Most are being updated so if you checked them before, you may find new additions. #kidlitUK These two are (mainly) UK children's authors go.bsky.app/GLnmxCv go.bsky.app/3hvsJPY

Any writers looking for high quality one off classes in aspects of craft, look no furtger. Andrew knows his stuff @andrewwille.bsky.social

A little something to make it easier to find some dope Black creatives to follow on here. ☺️ go.bsky.app/U3UQX2A

Oh, also – this is Miles.

I live on a ship named Anna Maria in Rotterdam. She's an old lady, built in 1897. It sounds romantic, right? Hahaha. No, not all the time. I took those masts down four years ago, but let's pretend they're still there.

I also write games! Saltsea Chronicles with @gutefabrik.bsky.social and a little something soon to be announced (that I should be actually working on right now, but it is what it is)

Hi hi! I'm Sharna. I write books and games about murder, mystery and art. You might know High Rise Mystery (2019) but I promise my other books are just as good (if not better). Here's a few of them: