New book buys: Lily Murray @Richarddraws 🦖🦕🪳 #picturebooks # rhyming #readingforpleasure

New book buys: @EvansTheBooks #LucySemple James Norbury 🐺🐼🐲 #picture books #readingforpleasure #Philosophy

Author Alexandra Page shares the ups and downs of publishing her debut children’s book 📚, and how she’s learnt to embrace imperfection and collaboration. Read her story ↪️ bit.ly/3uOiwQ6

New book buys: Frances Tosdevin Sophia O'Connor Illustration @CorrinneAveriss Fiona Woodcock ClareHelenWelsh Jenny Løvlie #ElliWoollard Briony May Smith 🐻📚🐼👦🦆❄️🌬️🐣 #PictureBooks #readingforpleasure

Today's #WednesdayWritingTips are about focus. Whether you're writing picture books, YA, scripts... pretty much anything, hopefully these tips will help 😊

‘Inside that little space I carry around on my shoulders is everything that has happened to me since I was born.’ Our brains and imaginations are amazing! The only difference between writers and non-writers is that writers write it down ✍️ David Almond #DBF21

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Today's #WednesdayWritingTips are about vulnerability as a writer... As many of you are sending in your entries for the #picturebookprize and #chapterbookprize, I hope this is helpful ❤️

New book buys: Samuel Langley-Swain @katiecottle_ @LucyCAuthor Nia Havilliard (previously Tudor) Natalia and Lauren O’Hara Alexandra Page Stef Murphy #PictureBooks #readingforpleasure

New book buys: Caleb Caroline Bird #JuliaSarda #poetry #PictureBooks #readingforpleasure

New book buys: Alex Foulkes 🌙 #saraogilvie Natalia and Lauren O’Hara #picturebooks #middlegrade #readingforpleasure

New book buy: ClareHelenWelsh Laura Barrett ✂👑 #PictureBooks #readingforpleasure

Today's #WednesdayWritingTips are about comparisons. We're often asked to come up with 'comps' for pitches but comparing ourselves to others isn't always helpful. We all know this. We've heard it a million times before. We still do it. Here's my take on it.

A thread on submissions… It was only 2 years ago I got an email from my now agent asking to read the rest of my book. (The Last Bear). I remember when I sent the book to her feeling SO out of my comfort zone. (1/6)

New book buys: Derick Wilder 🐕 🍑🐜 Catia Chien Matty Long Emily Haworth-Booth 🌍 🐶🐰🏎👑🎆🦄🍄🐌 #picturebook #readingforpleasure

New book buys: Ben Manley @emmachichesterc Wenda Shurety Paddy Donnelly #picturebook #readingforpleasure

This week's #WednesdayWritingTips are about instinct. If you have a tendency to overthink, find yourself doubting, or just don't know which direction to head in, these tips are for you. (Spoilers: that's probably all of us). #StoryGodmother

Today's #WednesdayWritingTips are about Being Excited About Stuff.

Huge thank you to Laura Roberts for helping me edit some new PBs- ready to get back in the submission saddle soon! ✍🙏🐴 #amediting #grateful

THIS. I published 4 books before one took off. Could just as easily have been more! Getting a hit with your first book is SO rare. It's so easy to see the few exceptions - the instant debut hits - and feel like a failure if that's not you. But they ARE exceptions, not the norm.