Yay! It's so beautiful! 🎉

Many turn-of-the-century chapter books printed a color plate, or frontispiece, opposite the title page. We followed this tradition in the Spiderwick Chronicles books. Here are the sketches, inks and finished watercolors for the original five books. Completed over 20 years ago,

✨Proud of this superstar!✨

Margaret Atwood: "“I asked novelists … what it felt like when they went into a novel. “None of them wanted to know what I meant by into. One said it was like walking into a labyrinth, without knowing what monster might be inside: another said it was like... 1/5

“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light.” - Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead Yes, yes, yes! And thank you Margaret E Atwood.

🚨DEVELOPMENTAL/STRUCTURAL EDITOR NEEDED🚨 UK based for YA sci-fi! Please repost🔁

To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, here's a lo-fi recording of a poem for you - it's a found poem made of lines from love letters - from real people, renowned writers & fictional characters. Also check out Poetry Wales & Modron where stuff is going on & for captions...

feeling powerless but speaking words into the dark for those who have no way out

Sea of stars. Bioluminescence in the rain.

Our first #pumpkinpatch picking with the family: muddy boots, dirty hands, waggy tails and smiley faces. 🎃🍂 #FamilyTraditions #AutumnAdventures

African peach moth 📹Bart Coppens/coppensb

Whenever it feels like the world is falling apart, create. It might seem insignificant what you make, but it truly matters. It is during such times that we need beauty & wonder expressed in all art forms to remind us why we live & to feed the human spirit with what is good.

Wishers & believers, this time every year our planet passes through a ring of dust left by a comet that orbits our sun every 33 yrs. Sometimes it brings a meteor shower, sometimes a storm. In 1833, the night sky was more white than black with 100,000 shooting stars each hour🧵1/2

‘…there are no good books which are only for children.’ - W. H. Auden We talk with #BookOfTheYear-winner Katherine Rundell about being part of a long tradition of fantasy, why children's books are so important, and why they're also for everyone: bit.ly/WBOTY23

🚨COVER REVEAL TIME 🚨 I am so excited to share the cover for my debut YA graphic novel with @normallyblue ! Black Dolls, a Black girl pop-punk band 👩🏿‍🎤🎸 Out July 2025 with Hachette Children's Group BKMRK Updates #blackdolls

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. Anais Nin #writing #Art Aetherhart