The 113th Assistant Librarian now has a friend! Lost in a Book continues Oliver and Agatha's adventures as they are confronted with a very special edition of a book that may spell doom for both Hallarum and the Shrouded Alps. More literary peril! More London! And a giant spider crab! (Shudder!)

The launch for Lost in a Book is, appropriately, happening on Love Your Bookshop Day! 2pm at Readings Kids in Carlton on 11 October, hosted by the amazing Karys McEwen! Link in bio for tickets 📖🐱✨

The launch for The 113th Assistant Librarian: Lost in a Book will be held @readingskids in Carlton on 11 October 2025 at 2pm! Please, please come along and remember to book - it's free! Would love to see you there! www.readings.com.au/events/lost-...

Little bit in love with the cover design for the Russian translation of The 113th Assistant Librarian!

Fascinated by the fact that in Netflix's Fear Street: Prom Queen, every single instance of the heroine's tortured backstory is ADR dialogue delivered by someone off-camera. They changed the backstory in post! Please tell me someone else noticed this... #horrormovie

Thank you! And it's hard to think of a worse first few days on the job! 🙃

Thanks to a question from a translator, I just discovered a punchline in my published book that doesn't make sense. 🙃 Love this for me!

I have lived through an era in which I had almost any information at my fingertips, where with savvy search skills I could find whatever I wanted, a facility with information Diderot would have wept to have. I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.

What do you see? Kaneda? What do you see?!

As someone who has wanted to be a writer from the earliest point I can remember, I resent the act of writing a lot. Because it’s extremely fucking hard and time-consuming and painful and oftentimes thankless. But that’s what you sign up for when you decide to write. There are no shortcuts.

Excellent advice. Every scene you write should contribute to developing or advancing your plot, characters or setting. Ideally, any two of the three.

I'm in awe of how good the Netflix animated Asterix and the Big Fight adaptation was. All the contemporary touches felt 100% in the spirit of the original. Hope we get more books adapted!

i don't need this ai bubble to pop i need it to shatter into thousands of pieces like an old thermometer, each shard lodging mercury splinters into the eyes and ears and under the nails of every linkedin grifter who used chat gpt to generate an "adapt or die" post or some banality about emdashes

Honoured that The 113th Assistant Librarian has made the 2025 KOALA awards shortlist! Ecstatic that young readers so enjoyed a book about a kid who loves books!

Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

Congratulations to @sularigentill.bsky.social, winner of The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award for The Mystery Writer (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press). #Edgars2025

Okay, a lot of people are expressing outrage about this, and I also feel outrage about this, but since everyone else has already expressed my feelings for me, I'm going to put on my Teacher of Analytical Thinking Pants and point out something important.

Introducing The 113th Assistant Librarian: Lost in a Book! It's being released on 30 September 2025, and pre-orders are available now! (link in bio). The stunning artwork is by Federica Frenna and the design is by unparalleled Kristy Lund-White and I can't wait to have it in my hands!

Just read the blurb for @janecaro.bsky.social 's new thriller, Lyrebird, and am quietly stunned by the brilliance of that premise ... 🤩 www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...

The only thing more terrifying than standing up to fascism is what will happen if we lie down for it.

Had a wonderful time at the opening of @qbdbooks Greensborough Plaza with three incredible wordsmiths! Lovely to meet Laura McClusky, Mark Smith and Geoff Parkes, as well as the friendly and knowledgeable staff!

Oh wow! The 113th Assistant Librarian made the ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children shortlist! Congratulations to the other nominees and thanks ABIA 🙏

Me when I see that my neighbours in the apartment next door have motion flow on their TV 😳

Ordering a new dishwasher and came across this ever-so-helpful recommendation. Good to see that Alan is doing his share of the housework by * checks notes * writing the whitegood reviews...

“not all men” you’re right, Garrus Vakarian would never.

the funniest thing about Michael Crichton is that he was wise enough to foresee where all the silicon valley hubris would end but also too dumb to realize he was being propagandized to re: climate change

Can everyone please read this? Regards, a man married to a VFX artist. 👍

Bookings for our March Virtual Literary Speed Dating event are now open! Don't miss this opportunity to pitch your work to Australian publishers and agents. Find out more and book: www.asauthors.org.au/events/liter...

🌟MY BOOK IS OUT, MY BOOK IS OUT🌟 Grinning like a loon here 😄 ALL SHALL MOURN is out in the world. This book that was orphaned by my publisher, then supported by readers so much that I released it myself...It's finally arrived 😊 Hope you dig it🖤 linktr.ee/allshallmour...

In 10 days’ time (that’s Valentine’s Day) we’ll reopen to submissions. To do so, go to Contacts page on website and follow the guidelines. And PLEASE make sure you’re ready to share. #publishing #writinglife Good luck! 🤞 rb.gy/zqqpli

Absolutely floored to see The 113th Assistant Librarian shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Thanks to @wheelercentre.bsky.social, the State Government, Penguin Kids Australia and @mjostell.bsky.social for making such an honour possible, and congratulations to the other nominees!

As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

Microsoft and Google users trying figure out how to turn off their ‘AI assistants’.

There are many writers of quality SFF - especially women - who never became celebrities and whose work imo far outstrips Gaiman's. And, yes, many - especially women - have been forgotten.

Honoured to see The 113th Assistant Librarian made the shortlist. I'm in such incredible company 📚🐱💜

I was getting so furious about comedians doing lazy jokes and blaming the response on wokeness that @patricklenton.bsky.social was forced to publish my rantings before my head fully blew off. Read if you want ! t.co/uwP12v1fxy

After watching Alien: Romulus (it was fine), I'm wondering who actually likes famous lines from earlier in a franchise simply being repeated? Anyone?

Amazing to see how The 113th Assistant Librarian fared in the lead-up to Christmas. A thousand thank yous to everyone buying the book, recommending it to others and/or borrowing it from a library!

Stoked to see The 113th Assistant Librarian made it to the longlist for the Indie Book Awards. In excellent company too!