Anyone have experience of Faber Academy writing courses? Specifically the novel writing one? Thank you!

Thanks so much for including Trick or Treat with these lovely spooky books!

Ok can someone please just come to my house and tidy it, sort me some lunch, make tea for the electricians and make sure everyone leaves me alone to write please? Is that too much to ask? Really?!

🚨👇👇👇👇👇🚨 Halloween is upon us. Time to get this BOO!...tiful book. 🧙‍♀️👻

It’s getting towards that time of year! If you’re after the perfect Halloween picture book with a spectacular spooky twist, then look no further! ‘Trick or Treat’ is out! The perfect TREAT for Halloween! Delightfully spooky illustrations from the wonderful Laura Brenlla

And Catherine is available for virtual visits!

Wooohooo!!!! DELIGHTED to see The Lionesses do it again!!!! If your little ones enjoyed watching the game then they will LOVE Sammy Striker! As endorsed by The Lionesses themselves! #Lionesses #Euros #Euros2025 #Champions 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Let’s have some lovely children’s book suggestions to cheer up a grey day! What’s your feel good read read? What makes you smile? Here are a few to get started…

This looks gorgeous

Thank you @catherineemmett.bsky.social for this lovely review of Millie’s Big Decision! wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/mill... #KidLit #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky #LGBTQ

I think that having a child choose one of your characters for @WorldBookDayUK is a HUGE author goal! And this year I was spoilt rotten! Just LOOK at all these gorgeous Flamingos, Dodos and a Sammy! 🥰🥰🥰 Feeling like a very lucky author!

There really is nothing like World Book Day and a school full of lovely kids to get the writing juices flowing! And just look how brilliant the teachers were!

Delighted to see Jill Scott reading Sammy Striker!! She’s the third Lioness legend to read it now! A hat trick for Sammy! She shoots! She scores! ⚽️⚽️⚽️

Delighted that The Rainbow Flamingo has been shortlisted for the Calderdale Picture Book of the Year! 🎉 Go Adele! Show those feathers with pride!

Back to writing picture books for the first time in a while - and it always surprises me how happy it makes me.

Ooh we love Loki! I wish we were closer. People of Lincoln, check it out!

Thanks to @catherineemmett.bsky.social for this lovely feedback on our 2024 Bury Lit Fest - it's buoying us up on this grey Monday morning! "I really enjoyed being part of Bury St Edmund's Literature Festival! It was very friendly, well organised and also well attended. I had a great day!"

Is it too early to go back to bed?

Playing around with Lino printing. Lots of fun and a great way to pass a rainy ‘no-rugby’ Sunday!

Nice to be here and see stuff about books again. My eyes need a rest from the bin fire that is Twitter 😬

This is such a horrible message. Do better, Bookbub. Take away coffees are routinely more expensive than ebooks. Setting a culture of $1/£1 books is undervaluing art and telling us it's disposable. Do better.

If you listen very carefully… …you can hear the sound of a weekend without a single sports fixture!! 🎉🎉🎉 God bless you everyone! 😂

My favourite children's book of the year: SAFIYYAH'S WAR by Hiba Noor Khan. Absolutely beautiful & brilliant; every school & library should have a copy. To which end, I am giving away FREE COPIES TO SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES! Repost & follow to enter; closes 25th Jan 2025! #BooksOfTheYear #books #giveaway

Soooooooooooo excited to read this! Absolutely LOVE @catherineemmett.bsky.social Dodo Who Dreamed She Could Fly Makes for a great storytime 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Delighted to hear that ‘The Dodo Who Dreamed She Could Fly’ by me and Claire Powell was featured on CBeebies today as the lunchtime story! I would love to be able to watch it! Anyone know if there is a way to watch? I can’t find it on Iplayer! @simonkids.bsky.social @cbeebies.bsky.social

I bet that you'd look good in my bookstore, I don't know if you're looking for a romance I don't know what you're looking for. I said, I bet that you look good in my bookstore, looking for a book like I Robot, or 1984. Or 1984.

I might become an author illustrator… … there’s a market for picture books illustrated with a sharpie right??😂 On a more serious note, I do love creating characters with classrooms full of kids! The best bit is seeing the characters they create afterwards!

Author at work

Wooohoo! I have a new picture book publishing in February with Andersen Press and the INCREDIBLE Fiona Lumbers . It's truly beautiful and it's in the Bookseller 's Children's Preview! #kidlit #picturebooks #thespacebetween

Last night my eldest had a sleepover for 6 of his mates. Now I feel like the little old lady in 'A Squash and a Squeeze' after she 'took out her hen'. The house feels blissfully large and peaceful 😂😂

This is a great resource if you’re new here!

Two stories sent to a publisher which I am VERY excited about! fingers and toes are firmly crossed. Let the inbox refreshing begin!

‘Got my stick, where we going?’

Guys you know those two lines? I think I might just have found them. 😘

Ok so despite starting a new social media platform I still can't write the two lines i need to finish this picture book 🙄

ok I have no clue how this place works - how do I find a Starter Pack of nice booky people?

Ok I made the change! Hello fellow Blue Sky folk! I’m here for books and writing :-)