Just an old and very smelly good girl to brighten up everyone’s feed tonight. #Doggo

Off author talk for a min… Watching Love is Blind with the teens and their ability to see gaslighting, and emotional manipulation (however subtle), gives me such hope for them when they are ready to enter the dating world 😅

It’s my book birthday!!! A huge thank you to Irina for bringing Minna Mask’s to life in such a vibrant & colourful way. Thanks to all at DK Books for helping support the first in my Wonderfully Wired Stories for younger readers & their families. #KidsBooks #Neurodiversity #Inclusion

We have 20 copies of Minna's Masks by @louisegooding.bsky.social to give away! Published by DK Through Minna’s story, readers will learn about masking, which people use to help them fit in or adjust to situations where they may otherwise feel insecure. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wonderfully Wired Brains is part of the Amazon Prime Day Deals and at 60% off (£5.20!!!!) it’s an absolute steal today! www.amazon.co.uk/Wonderfully-... #Neurodiversity #SEN #Kidlit

How do people have more than one intense interest/career/responsibilty? Like this isn’t #ADHD friendly guys!

Introducing Minna Masks! Out 7th August! Meet Minna and learn about the concept of masking in this inclusive picture book on neurodiversity. Through Minna’s story, readers will learn important lessons about empathy and compassion. #masking #neurodiversity #kidlit #childrensbooks #inclusivebooks

Coming to all good book shops this August! Minna’s Masks! The first book in my Wonderfully Wired stories with @dkbooks.bsky.social which explores the world of neurodiversity and wonderfully wired brains with younger readers. geni.us/MinnasMasks #neurodiversity #kidlit #booknews #ADHD

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? I can’t feed my family or pay the bills with ‘exposure’

Happy neurodiversity pride day! I can announce Minna’s Masks will be out in August! This story explores masking alongside Minna as she navigates her new school. With empathy & understanding we can make safe space for everyone, with or without needing to mask. learning.dk.com/uk/books/978...

Oh the privilege of celebrity where they can just do what you want with no regard to others. These big names don’t need extra promo or £££. There are creatives trying to make change in the world with their work who struggle to pay the bills, yet this dude will still be pumping out books for years.

Ya! Another awesome book by Jamie is out in the world!

ONE DAY LEFT!! 🎉 There's only ONE full day to enter my giveaway for a signed copy of RAN'S DAUGHTERS and my crochet shawl! 🧶📚 ⚔️Please like, share, comment, and enter the giveaway on my website! 👩🏻‍💻www.katifelix.com👩🏻‍💻 🕘I will be announcing the winner tomorrow, June 5 - 9AM Swiss time/12AM PST

Thank you @gardnersbooks.bsky.social and DK Books for having me as part of your author line up on Tuesday night. It was wonderful to connect with so many booksellers and show everyone a sneak peak of my next book! (I finally got to hold a copy in my hands! - Squeel!) #BookTalk #BookNews #Kidlit

If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social #WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit

What did I get up to today? #buhurt ❤️ Love that we had 4 ladies repping in armour today! A first for our Norwich club! #MedievalArmour

Proud of this one. A week of GCSE exams & anxiety has been HIGH. Today she did her first stint at volunteering for @breakcharity.bsky.social - it was a challenge she said (lots of masking her autism & anxiety) but ,after a much needed power nap on the way home, said she’d like to do it again.

Sharing this gorgeous post from LinkedIn I was tagged in! Niamh doing some epic work making sure schools across Jersey have neuro-inclusive books and I love it! 🙌 #KidLitUK #Jersey #Neurodiversity

A huge NO from me. Being able to record the audiobook of Wonderfully Wired Brains was the most brilliant thing, it’s real, authentic, it’s my voice sharing my passion. AI stealing creative energy is not the way forward, it’s flat, it’s dead and not the human connection we need!

Another amazing book from Jamie! Don’t forget to enter his giveaway!!!! #BlueSkyTeachers

I am currently not taking on any school visits as I am juggling my day job, writing, renovations & family. My brain needs time & space to rest between all these commitments so I don’t burn out. I look forward to getting out again when things quieten down a little. #Authorvisits #UKKidLit

I want and need this tshirt…. but it’s $100…. i’m too poor for that! Writing and working in the care sector = no octopus coffin tshirt for me 😭 #sadtimes

Back in the research trenches 🙌 (because you love the topic) but also sometimes 🫣 Children’s non fiction - where you spend hours/days reading 1000000’s of words about a specific fact/event to only have 250/300words to write yourself 😅 #ukkidlit #nonfiction #writing #researchtrenches

"... ADHD, speech language delays, narcolepsy, Tourette's, ASD [autism]. These are all things I never heard of when I was a kid. They were not part of the nomenclaure. They were not part of the dialogue." - PLEASE, somebody, direct him to my book! 🫣 #FactCheck #Neurodiversity

Hello London! Book stuff is happening!!!! #ukkitlit #kidlit #london

Wonderfully Wired Brains has sold over 55000 copies! 🤯🤯🤯 I’m blown away. Thank you to absolutely everyone who has supported this book! Every single one of you!!! #kidlit #bookchat #neurodiversity

In happier news - I received the final circulation of my next book and it’s gorgeous!!! So gorgeous. More ND rep coming through, make way! #KidlitUK #BookNews

And as per a recent email: “If you don’t have availability for a visit would you be interested in donating a book instead?” I’m sadly turning down the visit due to my commitments to needing a day job (which I love!). But you’d like me to fund/post my book to you for free?!

Having to turn down midweek school visits, explaining I have a full time job. It’s often interesting (to me) to see the absolute look of confusion at my lack of availability and the fact, as an author, we aren’t all ’rolling in it’ 😅 - A creative career choice is hard work but so very loved.

By the way… this is me. 😅 Literally, truthfully, me.

Anyone need a prompt for their next story? How about a nearly 40yr old rocking into a new town, fresh from the breakdown of her marriage, kids in tow, who literally meets a Knight in (not so) shining armour in a medieval church, they fall in love as she finds her inner warrior maiden. #writersuk

On my way back home from five magical days exploring woodlands, coastlines and castles and I think it’s extremely rude I can’t just do this full time! 😅

Enjoying some time away in Northumberland. It’s freezing, wet, but we don’t care!

This mug would do nicely for a morning brew…. don’t ya think?!

One of the young people at @breakcharity.bsky.social made me these most excellent earrings after a conversation about upcycling together. I can’t get enough of them! aren’t they excellent?! 😍 #Upcycling #Dinosaurs

I’m missing my old writing community so much tonight. They always kept me on track and were such an amazing source of knowledge and people to bounce things off. 😅 #kidlituk #writingcommunity

I’ve got edits to do… but i’ve had a total day today and I have a 7.15am start tomorrow to hopefully get my divorce done and dusted… (7.15am…. online… awake and on camera…I guess that’s international divorce for you!). Can I just curl under a blanket instead?! Send good energy peeps!

My silly little demon kitty stole some brocolli tonight and was guarding it with all his might. It was far more entertaining than the superbowl my partner was trying to watch 🤣 #CatsOfBluesky

Addressing this because I know it doesn’t just happen to me. Someone finds out you are a published author & tells you they want you to help them break into the industry with ‘your influence’ or with a collaborative project. You politely turn them down as you just don’t have the time …😳 #UKKidlit

Why does SIX from the SIX musical sound like a My Little Pony song…. that’s basically all my kids played for a few years whilst their pony obsession was the thing. And now hearing this song from SIX i’m being taken right back! 😂

Watching historical movies with people wearing armour shouting at the tv it would NOT be that shiny if worn by someone constantly trudging along in all elements 😅

Every penny really makes a difference to so many amazing kids in care & care leavers who I get the privilege to work with. If you are concentrating on giving back or acts of kindness this 2025 please share and support me in raising £200. #Fundraising #KidlitUK www.justgiving.com/page/louise-...

When you’ve provided xmas magic and feasts for years for your family and just accepted it as ‘your job’… To then get divorced, meet someone amazing, spend your first xmas together and he goes out to buy flowers to say ‘thank you for a wonderful xmas.’ I got my first ever thank you!!! 🤩

So Dick and I keep discussing surnames as both of us don’t want to keep our family names (or my ex husbands!). My sister suggested Whittington over Xmas, the maiden name of my Grandma (the inspiration behind The Memory Book) and Dick is now delighted at the idea of being Dick Whittington! 😅

Loving my crow and skull earrings I got from one of my gals this Christmas!

Hope everyone’s had a merry christmas, from Dick and I.

Found a review on Amazon of Wonderfully Wired Brains where someone was not happy with the fact I included pages on depression and anxiety, because…what do these have to do with being neurodivergent?! Oh my love… go do some more research and make yourself a cup of tea… #Depression #ADHD #KidLitUK

Anyone else singing “Teenie weenie beanie” every time Antony comes on screen in the new season of #QueerEye?

Working with young care leavers has been such a joy over the past 6+months. I’ve developed some amazing relationships and am really grateful to those who’ve opened up and shared their journey with me. I can’t wait to see what we do together in 2025 #CareLeavers #BreakCharity

I wish I had the time to interact with everyone on Bluesky the way I used to on Twitter back in the day, but I just don’t have the time anymore! 😅 Single parent life, plus a full time job and house renovations AND new friends to build and maintain in a new city = high risk of #ADHDBurnout as it is!