We're thrilled to reveal that Piu DasGupta 🐍💎 is another one of our authors featured in the upcoming spring/summer issue of #PaperBoundMag 📚

Discover more about her debut #middlegrade novel 'Secrets of the Snakestone' published by Nosy Crow in the new issue 🧡✍️

“The books I enjoyed most as a child were rollicking adventures where I could immerse myself in the action, but which afterwards left me with a sense there was more to think about” — I loved doing this i/v about Snakestone with the wonderful PaperBound Magazine, out SOON! 👀

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Head up the pathway towards lighter days. Sunrise on Glastonbury Tor.

Lorina Bulwer, needle-worker incarcerated in the 'lunatic ward' of Great Yarmouth Workhouse, UK, in 1894, created large scale samplers as a way to voice her experience, highlighting her protests at her treatment and grim conditions #WomensArt

📢 EXCITING NEWS!!📢 uclan publishing #HowToBeARevolutionary #JoinTheRevolution

We are now fully funded! And in less than two days at that!

Thank you all so much for the love and the support given to this project.

Traditional art and folklore for the win!

✨I’m thrilled to share the cover of my first MG novel, ‘Hallie and the broken ghost’ publishing this August with Tiny Tree Books 📕 Join Hallie as she negotiates a new home, a flatulent phantom and an archaeologist with a penchant for arson in this paranormal adventure! #NewBook

👻 'Hallie and the Broken Ghost' Cover Reveal! 👻

'Hallie and the Broken Ghost' is a frighteningly funny adolescent paranormal adventure by ✨Nadine Holland✨. Published on August 22nd. Pre-order today: amzn.to/4dRJxId

#HallieAndTheBrokenGhost

T minus 2 weeks to Flame Chasers🔥

I LOVE the cover, it fits the story perfectly. Thank you David Dean Illustration & Becka Moor for such thrilling beauty😍

And Huge THANKS to
💛SJ Wills
💛Jasbinder Bilan - I'm meant to be writing...
💛Gill Lewis
💛Andy Shepherd
for your glowing words 🌟

ONE WEEK BEFORE GEEK GIRL TV LANDS!

Set your alarms, fire the cannons, prepare your dinosaur figurines.

LET’S GOOOOO. ❤️

Carrying on the topic of cool book maps, I’d almost forgotten this one from my book Hobbledown-now an adventure park!

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We recommend with authority and share our reading joy in popups and book corner tips.
Here’s the other bookseller describing Bird Boy catherine bruton she/her Nosy Crow Kellie Balseiro

Unbelievably proud of beloved friend Miranda Rutter on BBC Front Row playing & talking about her incredible folk album inspired by bird song. When she plays I am 21 again! Love you, M! mirandarutter.com/album/2808980/…

'Another hard-hitting yet therapeutic masterpiece. This beautifully written and intensely emotive story explores challenging themes including mental illness, depression, bereavement and displacement with a reassuring and ultimately optimistic sensitivity.”booktrust.org.uk/book/b/bird-bo…

#MSWL : I would love to represent a non-fiction book on the absolute epidemic of ghosting - why it’s happening & what it means for us all on an individual & societal level. If it’s already out there, please point me in the right direction because this subject is fascinating to me!

In our upcoming masterclass, participants can expect Mollie Ray to talk about her own creative process, across both short-form comics and her silent #graphicnovel 'giant', and offer top tips and advice on telling a story through images alone.

Book: writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-cou…

Just realised that I never posted to say Mina and the Cult is now available on Kindle for those who have been asking.

Happy reading!

Etymology of the day: 'explode' is the poor relative of 'applaud'; it comes from the Latin for slow hand-clapping an inadequate performer off the stage.