Share Michael Rosen's Manifesto for Reading with pupils, parents and colleagues - expert tips to spark a love of reading in young people 📚 www.walker.co.uk/michael-rose...

We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.

The book I’m querying starts on 10th November - the date I decided to follow the idea. Whatever does or doesn’t happen with the queries, I’ve absolutely loved my year with this book ✨

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere). naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...

Two weeks today is anniversary of starting a supernatural crime caper. I’ve loved mentally inhabiting this story. To celebrate, please can I have an offer of representation from an agent on 10th November - if someone can arrange that? Many thanks in advance 😉

We’re all poorer because of the pandemic and wars and immigration* and there are far fewer billionaires now for the same reason. Wait, billionaire wealth surged last year*? www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel... *hmmm

The clocks changed for winter and I woke to a new hankering for slipper wearing, eating roast dinners and drinking mulled wine. Hbu?

Wait a second, so Frankenstein: • Is immortal • Sneaks into houses at night • Sometimes leaves gifts for nice people • Lives in the North Pole 🤔

Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣

Should be fast asleep for work tomorrow but I’m buzzing with excitement from Wells Literature Festival. Stunning readings and a drive home past Diwali fireworks… so grateful to @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social for 2nd place & thrilled to meet Fleur, @drkshingler.bsky.social and other wonderful writers 🎉

New blog post - Passwords brian-moses.blogspot.com @piecorbett.bsky.social

Ellie is 3 today 🥳 she’s celebrated with long walks and by inhaling peanut butter and carrot ‘pupcakes’.

Found out Bring Me The Horizon and Arctic Monkeys went to the same high school, in the same year group, and now feel I owe it to my kids to move them there.

New poem up on my blog. Enjoy. joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2025/06/quot... #BookSky #writing #music #poetry

Movement to BAN losing an hour’s sleep on Mother’s Day. SLEEP IS WHAT MUMS WANT MOST.

This, 100% ⤵️ All the arguments of new and inflamed Twitter making me feel like a bonobo who’s strayed to the chimpanzee side of the river 🙈

Anyone else looking out at blue skies, the lighter evening - daisies and daffodils - and breathing great lungfuls of sweeter air for it? I bloody love spring 💚

Day 36 of #365DaysOfSmiles Break on through to the otter slide!

This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral www.404media.co/declassified...

📣 HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 🐍 It's COVER REVEAL TIME! I'm proud to present my new novel 🏮NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST 💥 out June 12th. The wonderful cover art is by Simone Douglas @SimsDougie Published by @PiccadillyPress

We took a walk yesterday that led us past Tolkien’s old house, “Rock Cottage”, and my eagle-eyed 9-year-old spotted something... 👀

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👀📚Check out my JANUARY 2025 Children’s Books I’m Most Excited About video on my YouTube channel. Please subscribe! 📖🌟Each month, I put together #ComingSoon videos previewing my most anticipated children’s books releases to bump up your TBRs! ➡️ youtu.be/mDN2Kfg8k24?...

Tell me about the weird thing that happened to you to that you’ve never been able to rationally explain. Hauntings. Premonitions. Mysteries. Even the most level headed and skeptical people I know have a story that starts with ‘I don’t believe in that sort of thing, but…’ Pleeeease tell me yours!

Best (ruined) Christmas song m.youtube.com/shorts/IrJh9...

When your phone suggests an automated ‘memories’ slideshow from your camera roll, adding sentimental music to happy, smiling photos - then randomly includes a snap you took of a gory foot injury 😂 Thanks, phone. Good to remember that!

My eighth young adult thriller comes out on 13th March 2025 - whoooop 🎉 This lovely cover by Sarah Baldwin at Scholastic UK captures the suspenseful, toxic friendship mood nicely!

I've got some UK children's book publishers, reviewers and literary agents here, Darren: go.bsky.app/kRfNFe

Anyone else send unintended stickers in WhatsApp? One of last year’s regrettables just shared with my sister 🤦‍♀️

So, I wasn't able to join #NaNoWriMo this year, but I started a new story today, and have given myself until New Year's Day to complete a first draft. (Yeah, I know.) I'm calling it #ChrimboWriMo. Hop on board if you like; there's loads of room on the magical story sleigh.

We close for entries to our kids’ prize in exactly one month’s time on 1st January 2025 so do enter your work if you are writing for children! Thats only 30 days to go. www.cheshirenovelprizekids.com

Ryan Gosling as geese. A thread.

It’s pay day and I’ve booked it off work to get Christmas presents 🎁 Santa’s little helper here is supervising the online purchases. Or watching for what I’m getting her, maybe? 🤔

Just earned some parental kudos getting tickets. If you’re not far from Salford, check out Olaf’s family comedy show 👀

IT'S THE FESTIVE BIG GREEN BOOK SWAP You let me know what kinda stuff you like reading I'll match you up with someone with similar tastes I'll post you both a book I think you'll like (+ choc & tea!) Read & chat with your book buddy Just £15 DETAILS HERE! www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php

In 1916, Tolkien moved to Great Haywood with his wife Edith, to train for WW1 at Brocton camp. Between the two locations, by foot, is this wonderful, human-like oak tree planted 500 years ago, during the reign of King Henry VIII.

Writing is freedom and energy. Editing is spending 20 minutes trying to find another word for "powerful" that fits in the sentence. And then realising you're going to cut that sentence.

Hey guys, the nights are getting colder so it’s time to dust off the old PlayStation onesie. Sure, it’s something a 12yr old would wear, but I frequently don it down at the authors’ social club, and find it provides excellent protection when wrestling Mikey Morpurgo in front of the grand fireplace.

I really cannot believe that I won The Times - Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition today! I am very excited for everyone to read my novel, I am absolutely blown away by this! #booksky

Good morning new followers! I'm a award-winning children's author. My first novel for children came out in 2021 and was called Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths. I also write the Tiger Warrior series and am a Murder Club author (The Super Sunny Murder Club) Here is my website www.maisiechan.com

'The Thorny Paradise' is a 1975 collection of essays from leading children's authors of the day on their craft and aspects of children's literature and I thought I'd share some of their observations in this thread for the bookish folk of Bluesky.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

SO excited to share my first ever cover reveal on this site! It is book 3 in the Kat & Lock series (No 1 In the Blink of an Eye won the Theakston’s crime novel of the year) and I cannot wait for you to read this. Thank you to the S&S team who created this stunning cover - out April 24th 2025👇

What’s up? Indeed. And what is down? Who knows at the Quirky Quarter in Liverpool 🤷‍♀️ (We highly recommend it)