This is so fitting! I was just at our local bookshops with my teens looking to spend 6 (!) WBD tokens. Shelves that previously held books were filled with toys. Shelf space has been reduced across YA/Teen. My teens were disappointed and sad.

Giveaway Alert! This is my first time trying to do a giveaway on Bluesky. Not sure how it will go! I'm giving away copies of Rebel Dawn, plus a bookmark for the Rebel Skies trilogy. To enter, please comment on this post. Giveaway open to UK and Europe only. Ends midnight 14 Jan.

The plan was to do some secret edits today, then move to secret plotting. So much work! All the secrets! Was scheming! Instead I have 5 insanely loud 13yos downstairs singing along with FROZEN. 🫠

Wait…that’s the end of the books?!? Sigh. #LateLateToyShow

NINA PEANUT! What a fab choice!! #BookElves2024 #LateLateToyShow

FINALLY!! THE BOOKS!! #LateLateToyShow #BookElves2024

Where ARE the books?!? #bookelves2024 #LateLateToyShow

Today kicks off #BookElves2024 - a week of book recommendations. Plus it's #LateLateToyShow day - a must for all Irish toy and book fans, young and young at heart!

It is friday! Therefore it is time for the weekly good news thread! What's your good news from the week? What's made you smile? What's brought some light into your life?

It’s the perfect grey morning to cheat on my 💩 adult novel with a sneaky little teen spy mystery. I know! I know! I shouldn’t but when the idea is brewing… 🫠 I keep telling myself that it’s out of my system and I can move on. Stay tuned…

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

Day one, Tyrone Guthrie. 5K words written. 5km run in freezing temps. Current relationship with adult novel is iffy. Not loving it, but have to embrace the 💩first draft!

If you need me this week, I’ll be working on my first adult murder mystery novel in this perfect room in the middle of nowhere. Wish me luck! PS - There’s nowhere better than Tyrone Guthrie Centre, am I right?

The woman who accused Conor McGregor and his friend of rape moved this year after her property was invaded by a group of men wearing balaclavas who stabbed her partner and broke her windows, it can now be reported

First up for my unofficial #bookelves2024 duty is a book I read recently and really enjoyed. LOVER BIRDS is an unconventional 🏳️‍🌈 love story with ND rep. A great punchy YA rom-com.

I am so excited to be a #bookelves2024! I love giving book recs more than anything (just ask my friends, their kids, my kids, my kids’ friends…). If I can’t find a book for you, I know the rest of the elf crew is ready!

Does anyone else do this? I put my book on the shelf next to my fav reads and writer pals’ books. It makes me feel like I’m with my friends but also in a cool, elite shelf of fantastic stories.

I’m heading to Tyrone Guthrie Centre for some magical writing in one week!!! Pls send your fav funny, dark adult/treen/YA murder mysteries and thrillers. Or just fav reads of late. Thanks! #bookrecommendations

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you’re doing now. 1. Wedding catering waiter 2. College football ticket booth salesperson 3. Dog Walker 4. Second clarinet in the local symphony orchestra 5. Book publicist 😳😳 6. Borders bookstore worker

Well now, this is handy! Thanks @elainaryan.bsky.social. This place has exploded in the past week and it’s good to find my people. ♥️ 🇮🇪

I’ve been beating myself up for two weeks between election and submission and trying to leap from writing YA to adult fiction. New idea is there, just not flowing. I have 10k words of…meh. I was hit with a shiny new idea today. Of course. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Do I run with it (for today at least)?!

To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway. Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100. You have until noon on Sunday 17th November

This right here! We’ve left the bad place behind and here’s a collection of your fav writer pals (thx @finnlongman.bsky.social).

I’ve been absent for a while, trying to keep my head away from social media muck. I’m dipping back in here and on threads to see where my #kidlit friends are. Hello pals! 👋 I’m a YA/teen mystery writer about to take the plunge into writing adult murder mysteries.

Do pick up a copy of @sineadohart.bsky.social’s #TheSilverRoad. This magical tale of friendship and Irish mythology is captivating (trust me, I read it this weekend, in one go). I absolutely fell in love with this book and the story of courage and growth and history. A complete gem!

Thrilled to see so many bookshops feeling the #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks love. 🥰

That pathetic look you get when you know you have to do something no one wants to do (go back to the vet for a bandage change). 🥴

We're working really hard on the AI issue at The Society of Authors. There's practical advice here, including wording you can ask for on your contracts. www2.societyofauthors.org/2023/06/07/a...

EXCITING NEWS! There's a new book challenge in town, created by the wonderful @rurooie.bsky.social Every day in October there is a new prompt - day 1 is post an Irish children's book with an animal on the cover. Tag in me and @rurooie.bsky.social and use #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks and #DIKBChallenge23

This Bisexual Visibility Week, I'm inventing Buy Bi, where people come together to support bi creators and business owners by buying their stuff! Why not start with a gorgeous story about a seaside town, a secret museum and a girl who is *not* going to make any friends. fionalongmuir.com#books

Hello friends! I’m a YA author, #kidlit fan, and 🇺🇸 transplant living in 🇮🇪. Still trying to navigate this sky thingy, but glad to meet fellow writers, readers, reviewers, booksellers, teachers and librarians! 👋👋 (That’s my book 👇👇)