Facebook marketplace is like, “I found these things for you, a bit further away.” “Oh like 100km away in Northampton?” “No, 3,500kms away, have a look!”

Dear internet… I have cleaned the upholstery on all my chairs and now they’re too wet to sit on. Floor sitting is supposed to be better for you anyway.

I have an announcement #booksky! I have signed a contract for my next mg novel! Find out all about it here: macdibble.com/announcement... (Allen & Unwin have world rights if you're outside of Aus/NZ want to get in on the ground floor).

3 weeks out in the world, 7 days presenting, 2 publisher meetings, couple of catchups aaand I'm $300 in the black. About the amount I spent on jumpers (way less than the other business lost without me 😑). Thanks to all those who hosted me and kept me out of the red! (Suzanne, Kris, Emily, Barb 💕)

Spring has sprung on the mid west coast of Australia. ☀️

Threads suspended me. I merely likened the breakdown of postal services to an abusive relationship, first the gaslighting then the isolating. Aussie’s have a right to criticise govt as part of law. We may not have free speech but we have that. Not sure what crime they’re trying to pin on me. 🤷‍♀️

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My last post about How to Bee being up in lights on a tower in Perth got so much attention 😂 I thought I’d follow that up by showing The Apprentice Witnesser up there too alongside other WA Premiers Award shortlisted books! #booksky #bookweek #kidlit #clifi

#booksky !!!

Are you in Perth?! Did you see a giant How to Bee on a tower???!!! #bookweek

Photos from #NZCYA book awards. The finalists in the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction: Jane Arthur, Li Chen, Me, Claire Mabey, Rachael King flanked by Judge LJ Keegan and Sponsor O Wright from the Wright Family Trust. Li Chen won this section and Claire Mabey took out best debut book. #booksky

Hey NZ! Especially Hamilton teachers, parents, kids, come along tomorrow morning to Books For Kids in Grey St! #booksky

By popular demand, we present the junior fiction finalists for the #NZCYA awards interviewing each other on their books & writing lives www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2025-j... #BooksAlive @macdibble.bsky.social @exocomics.com @cravenjaney.bsky.social @rachaelking70.bsky.social @clairemabey.bsky.social

What is Hopepunk and why do we need it in the classroom? Article at SchoolNews Australia: www.school-news.com.au/news/what-is...

I don't care who you are, my Chinese editor loves me more right now, so there! How to Bee and Across the Risen Sea have gone to print in Beijing and I've just answered all her marketing questions. #booksky

You know how when society is pushed too far one way it pendulums back the other way and over corrects for a while? I cannot wait for the pendulum to swing back from 2025. Black, Trans and immigrants will be celebrated, Israel will be criminalised and men will care for women and lift them up.💖🌟

When people say ‘it’s getting a bit much’ in relation to others reclaiming their rights, I just say, ‘I disagree, society is a pendulum, push it too hard one way it swings back too hard the other. It’ll settle if you leave it alone.’ Some people don’t seem able to sit with a moment of discomfort.

We get clouds in winter!

New Review from @middlegrademusings on Insta: “Bren MacDibble goes 5/5 in a novel full of hope with a formidable female lead, heartfelt exchanges and a touch of thrilling adventure that subtly reminds us to take care of what we have now.” #booksky

Hey #Booksky! Find out more about the books in the #NZCYA Junior Fiction Shortlist for the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award @thesaplingnz.bsky.social! #mglit #kidsbooks @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social

So excited to be shortlisted in the @statelibrarywa Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. #booksky @allenandunwin.bsky.social

How to Bee by @macdibble.bsky.social. A beautiful book with themes of climate change, class inequality & domestic abuse handled with care & skill. It's not as heavy as it sounds & has funny, joyful moments. You'd struggle to find a better narrative voice than Peony's. @oldbarnbooks.bsky.social

Hey #booksky, check out the Wilderness Society’s shortlist for the Karajia and Environment Awards for Children’s Literature at eacl.org.au

Very excited to see The Apprentice Witnesser shortlisted among some amazing books for @wilderness_aus ‘s Environmental Awards for Children’s Literature! @allenandunwin Find out more at eacl.org.au

Yes, this is fascism. For years, historians and experts were cautious about using the f-word to describe today's events. But that hesitation is gone now. 🧵

Hey #booksky if you want to find out more about the #NZCYA book awards shortlist announced yesterday or are after pukapuka for your tamariki some in te reo Māori, hop on over to their website: www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-... #booksalive

So many amazing books in the NZ CYA Awards this year including five by my publisher @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #booksky #nzcya #booksalive

Thrilled to see The Apprentice Witnesser Shortlisted in a very strong collection of NZ Books for Children and Young Adults! ... #nzcya #booksalive @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social @allenandunwin.bsky.social

A great day of hiking #murchisongorge #kalbarriNationalPark so very dry. Just the deepest pools remain.

Riches for everyone: Crissi Blair shares her highlights from the kids programme at Auckland Writers Festival! www.thesapling.co.nz/scene-report...

It's rained once in the last 9 months and it only rained for 20 minutes... but still I got caught in it!

So excited the #PandaBookAwards have shortlisted The Ravens Song 🐦‍⬛ written by me and Zana Fraillon for the kids in international schools across China to read and vote for this year. AND it has an international audio book which I know those schools will love thanks to Bolinda Audio. #booksky

I’m sorry #booksky but is there a more gorgeous literary award in the known universe than the 30th anniversary #Aurealisawards?

It’s here! It’s made it across the Nullarbor in one piece and it’s gorgeous! Thank you #AurealisAwards #booksky

I don't see how screaming more hate into the void is going to solve anything?

Storytelling got us into this... the story that there's borders, differences, that profits are more important than people, that someone will take our resources, that corporations are tangible things, that money is worth however much it is or anything at all... can stories get us out? #booksky

Authors, it has neger been more important to make “AI cannot be used at any point of the process of bringing my book to market” a part of your contracts. It’s not enough to tell them you don’t want it. You have to make it **a breach of contract** for them to do it. #booksky

Hey #booksky Aussie authors and readers please support this fundraiser for Palestine. airauctioneer.com/en-gb/author...

Hey #booksky! The best Speculative Fiction in Australia from 2024 has been honoured at a 30th Anniversary event recently. Happy Birthday Aurealis Awards! 🎉

According to the #AurealisAwards who have been at this for exactly 30 years. Happy Birthday! The Apprentice Witnesser was the best children’s speculative fiction published in Australia in 2024! It was a brilliant shortlist. Read them all! #kidlit #loveozmg #sf

Recently read Shadows of Winter Robins for bookclub which is a brilliant book full of dubious flawed characters. Great read & discussion material but someone said 'Has any family EVER had more secrets than them?'

Very excited to see The Apprentice Witnesser as a finalist in the Aurealis Awards. Check out Facebook for the shortlists and tune in to the 30th Anniversary Awards hosted by Garth Nix on May 4th 2pm WA time or 4pm East Coast time. #aurealisawards #booksky #specfic #loveozmg #kidlit

I get 50 emails a day from bots wanting to overhaul my website + 50 emails a day bots trying to phish an accommodation scam (they book extras on stolen card get refund to bank account, I wash their stolen money). I get 3 or 4 legit emails a week. I'm so over the internet right now. It sucks.

This #earthday take a moment to educate yourself on the climate and the environment. Don't be afraid, don't turn away. Read, understand and talk to your friends. We've been turning away far too long already. #kids4climate #kids4climateaction www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/sea-ice...

#NoPlanetB🌍⏰🙉🙈🙊🚨 #EarthDay #ClimateActionNow 🚨🚨🚨 #SaveOurSeaice ❄️🐻‍❄️❄️🦭❄️🐧❄️🐋❄️ #SaveOurGlaciers ❄️🏔️❄️ #extinctionisforever 🦖🦕🦤... 🧑‍🍼? #SaveOurWeatherPatterns ☀️❄️⚡🌬️🌀🌪️🌊 #Globalboiling 🥵🌍🥵🔥 #KeepItInTheGround 🛢️⛽💰 #stopgreenwashing 🤮🛢️🤮⛽💰 #BiodiversityCrisis 🦧🦥🐅🐘🦜🦘🦅🐋🪸🦈🦭🐧🦔🐞🦋🐝🌳 #DavidAttenborough💔 #TheBluePlanet🌎

Walt Kelly’s Pogo poster for the inaugural #EarthDay on April 22, 1970.

This Earth Day think how you’ll vote to preserve our environment for future generations. “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” #earthday #kidlit4climate

So excited to see The Apprentice Witnesser on the shortlist for the Aurealis Awards for Best Children’s Fiction. It’s a stunning list! Congratulations everyone! #booksky 🙌

Meta think they'll replace authors. But what they'll replace first is Publishers. The bastions of quality and culture. When the market is full of derivative trash there won't be any readers. There won't be any new movies based on original books. Just a slump of mediocrity. Friggen Techbrolgliarchs!