I REALLY want to create a Halloween Children’s Literature & Illustration Festival during October. Full of bootiful board books, perilously pretty picturebooks, mischievous mid-geade books & YArgh books &ALL the comics & graphic novels too! And workshops & talks & spooky stuff. 📚✨🕯️Manifesting 🕯️✨📚

I’m *ready* to share the results of #ReviveRoehampton project after making #TheBookSeller #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies #LibraryOfTheYear Finalists! I’m unbelievably proud & grateful for everyone who’s supported me in giving us ‘underdogs’ a chance to feel safe, seen, valued & celebrated! TY! 🤩

The #SundayMourningSpread returns with a hefty dose of morbid musings! Bite + Subscribe, Kim Reaper, Sister Clawdetta, Welcome To Oddleigh, Raised by Ghosts, Goosebumps Graphic Novel & Hex Vets! Spooky graphic novels are worth waking up for! 🖤📚✨

It's Valloween, Book Giving Day AND it's the day I created my very own website. It's a bit of a barren landscape of placeholder text and terrible layouts, but it's an actual real thing, that I get to shape into something magical! I can't wait to bring it to life over the next few weeks 🥹📚✨

Eeek! The first drafts of the #AroundThePodcast logo have been magically delivered to my groaning inbox. However, I can’t choose, help me please?! 🙏🏻 A, B, C or D?!

HERE IT IS! BROKEN DOLLS COMING SEPTEMBER 2025 That quote had me in literal tears. Share and you're in the drawing for copies of all three books.

Volunteering at one of the most heartwarming festivals #SteppingIntoStories & looking at the weekend line up and WOW! If you are #SELondon based- get yourself here to see the INCREDIBLE LEGENDS that are #JosephCoelho @ramzeereads.bsky.social & #AdeolaSokunbi & so many more! Absolutely mind blowing!

That whole 'feel the fear and do it anyway' thing... Does it ever get any easier to put yourself forward for things?! My body & brain are in total shambles after submitting an entry for a very big, important, and really cool thing. Any tips n tricks for next time? 🥴

Get excited for DOWN CAME THE SPIDERS! Arachnophobia meets Five Nights at Freddy's in this middle grade horror novel. This creepy-crawly cover was illustrated by Jai McFerran and designed by Stephanie Yang. Coming December 2025 from Scholastic. 🕷️ #Kidlit allyoutthere.beehiiv.com/p/new-year-n...

For my eternal spooky crew, ghoul gang, odd squad and those ND folk who need a bit of dopamine stimulation without the sensory overload… May I introduce you to one of the best playlists I’ve ever heard 👇🏻🖤 Witchy Lofi Playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Yy...

✨PODCAST ROLL CALL✨ Authors, Illustrators, Publishers & Librarians, do you have a spooky, magical, or fantastical tale to share? #AroundTheCauldron my NEW podcast will be brewing up all things eerie & enchanting. DM me if you’d like to stir up some literary magic together! Launching 30.04.25

Hi pumpkins! I’m October & I’m… 📚 Children’s Librarian ✨ Chair of CILIP #YLGSE 📚 GLL Literary Foundation #LiteraryChampion ✨ NLT #LiteracyChampion 📚 Judge for #SparkBookAward25 ✨ #FirstChapter 2024 Winner 📚 Spooky Book Blogger ✨ #AroundTheCauldron Podcast Host & I’m SO enchanted to meet you! 🖤

This was such a privilege to be a part of! #MagicalMonday indeed! Thank you to each & every person who works, volunteers, attends & promotes @stories_fest Having this wonderful #KidLitFest for children & families in SE London? BRILLIANT! ✨🖤✨ x.com/doodlyscribble…

Luckiest #BookWitch that ever was! I’ve just spent my afternoon volunteering with the INCREDIBLE @stories_fest & met a Literary Hero of mine: @JosephACoelho watching him instilling a love of literacy & inspiring the next generation of word wizards…😍🖤😍 How I handled it 👇🏻

HAAAAAPY #NationalStorytellingWeek to all my fellow book-worms, page-goblins, word-dragons & literature-devourers! May we all be blessed with the absolute ✨magic✨ of shared stories, forevermore 🖤

For any one living in S.E London…jump into this brilliant #KidLitFest it’s choc-a-block with incredible people, activities & book heroes! #SteppingIntoStories 🖤 x.com/stories_fest/s…

Eeeeeeeek! This cover is giving “whimsy wild wonderment in abundance!” Can’t wait to cherish it 🖤💚🖤 #SwifterThanStarlight x.com/cerrieburnell/…

I’m coming ‘home’ to Hedgely, soon, oh so soon. Cassie, Tabitha, Rue wait for me! Thank you @skyemc_kenna @saarainfeathers #TomislavTomic @WelbeckKids for bringing this portal of magic to us all. Witches.Aren’t. Born. They’re. Made! 🖤🧡🖤 #Hedgewitch #Woodwitch x.com/skyemc_kenna/s…

“I put a spell on you…and now you’re MINE!” This is giving Hocus Pocus x DnD vibes and I’m HERE for this 🙌🏻 t.co/oymHwTm7yq

This book broke my heart but healed my soul. It deserves absolutely every award possible! 💚#TheOgressAndTheOrphan @kellybarnhill x.com/AlgonquinYR/st…

Ft cont: @FarshoreBooks @padraig_kenny @kellybarnhill @PiccadillyPress @JenniSpangler1 @colinmeloy @BalzerandBray @RazorbillBooks @BooksandChokers @_KnightsOf @AllyMalinenko @Lora013 @KTegenBooks @YAundermyskin @catherinebruton @domrosevalente @Claribel_Ortega @AshVanOtterloo 🖤

Ft cont @MHarrison13 @simonschusterUK #PeterBunzl #CarrieHopeFletcher @PuffinBooks @kierstenwhite @DelacortePress @skyemc_kenna @WelbeckKids #JillMurphy @JamesENicol @chickenhsebooks @Jclaessen_ @publishinguclan @JenniferKillick @FireflySchools @karenfoxlee @maddashe @NosyCrow

#Shelfie ft #HelenaDuggan @susborne @MeggittPhillips @IsabelleFollath @julieabebooks @littlebrown @perditact @HonorCargillM @LittleTigerUK @Hickesy @Sibealpounder @BloomsburyBooks @AmySparkes @WalkerBooksUK @P_Harrison99 @JennyLovlie @OxUniPress @korkypaul @Lillustrator 👇🏻🧵

This reads like an eerily similar life story…are you, ghost writing my biography @rosemariewalano 🤪?! Ego aside, this sounds absolutely delightful & has already enchanted me ✨pretty please publishers?! ✨ x.com/rosemariewalan…

Sorry I absolutely keep casting an accidental ✨forgetful spell✨ every time I push something onto this portal…will try to tag as many Authors/ Illustrators/ Publishers as possible so you can look them up & cheer them on & support them in as many ways as you wish 🖤

#ReadForGood @ReadforGoodUK you are such an INCREDIBLE charity and group of wonderful beings & I’m so grateful for your work 🖤 THANK YOU!

Please, I beg of you publishing world…get this in print!!! ✨🖤✨ x.com/mjdaisywrites/…

Pleeeeeeeease pick this up Universe! I need it! 🖤 x.com/BrownBallantyn…

I love that so many spooky, kooky, magical, fantastical, weird & wonderful books are nominated for this! Congratulations to all but a big whoop whoop for #Hedgewitch #MiaAndTheLightcatchers #TheHauntingOfTyreseWalker & #Skandar Makes my dark heart really really REALLY happy 🖤 x.com/BranfordBoase/…

This sounds absolutely incredible! #CityOfStolenMagic 😍🙌🏻 x.com/nazneen372/sta…

Ok #SpookySeason 2023 really is going to be one for the records because….🤯💜🙌🏻✨ t.co/FvPzbXegdi

#SpookySeason just got spooooookier! ✨🖤✨ t.co/hFQaRn5tsA

Hoppy #PenguinAwarenessDay aka #Vampenguin Day! I’d highly recommend this ✨absolutely wonderful picture book✨ by the immensely talented @lucyruth 🖤🐧

I’m an *official* #BookWitch I’ll be working in a lovely little library! I’ve applied to volunteer for #SteppingIntoStories BookFest! I am going to attend my first ever PR book event courtesy of @JenniferKillick & @FarshoreBooks Wow! Last year me could never imagine such joy! 🖤

If you write/ illustrate spooky books: I LOVE YOU 🖤 If you edit/ publish spooky books: I LOVE YOU 💚 If you sell spooky books: I LOVE YOU 🖤 If you lend spooky books: I LOVE YOU 💚 And if you buy, gift, read or review spooky books, guess what? I LOVE YOU TOO PUMPKINS! 🖤

Please please let this be Ghostie’s year….I neeeeeeeed to obtain this spooky cute delight! 👻🖤👻 x.com/tarajhannon/st…

✨ It’s FINALLY 2023! ✨ #Educators, #Librarians, #Authors, #Illustrators, #SpookyCrew #Witches et al… What are some ‘important dates’ in your #Kidlit calendars that a #BookWitch aka soon to be #LibraryAssistant should know? Please help a ghoul out 🖤

“Which book, Witch Red?” “THIS BOOK!” and the Witch, read… #HappyNewYear #Welcome2023 #OctoberJones #KidLit #BookTwitter #SpookySeason #EverydayIsHalloween

Frantically hops on broom and whooooosh on over to the wonderful local emporium of awesome (a la Library) and orders all of ‘em! 😍🖤🙌🏻 x.com/kierstenwhite/…

Rips off cloak dramatically, pulls up my biggest cauldron, pours in the essence of all of the INCREDIBLE champions of #KidLit and #KidLitArt that I see in this mixed up portable magic box and then proceeds to spoon feed the entire World! x.com/Wonder_Booksho…

2023 hurry up & get here! 😍🖤💚 x.com/AshleyBelote1/…

Putting the BOO in BOOSTING 🖤 x.com/Lora013/status…

My condolences to her family, friends & all of her spooky crypto readers ❤️‍🩹 x.com/CryptoLoren/st…

I know two not so little gremlins who will be absolutely ecstatic at this news! Congratulations @annabelwriter ✨🖤✨ x.com/thebookseller/…

This is the greatest chain of events that ever was! Spooky magical creative souls united by GIGANTIC toads! Please please tell me Edgar & Beatrice are NOT the only familiars out there…. x.com/JamesENicol/st…

I’m sorry. I cannot stop laughing. My spell to procure a “smallish” toad (for photo prop usage) seems to have worked, rather more effectively, than I had initially hoped for…🐸 Enjoy the thicc bubbilicious Edgar Allen Toad (@Claribel_Ortega yes, this is entirely your doing…!

Apparently Twitter is imploding or at least going through some stuff SO in an act of counter-crisis I’m finally uploading LOADS of gorgeous, lovely, lengthy reviews of all the spooky, kooky, magical, fantastical, weird & wonderful KidLit I’ve encountered through here! Fangs! 🖤

🧛🏼‍♀️❤️🧛🏻‍♂️ YES ‘BLOODY’ PLEASE! t.co/gw78oggoaz

Absolutely deserved and manifesting a win! 💚🖤💚 x.com/skyemc_kenna/s…