10 schools, 1750 kids, lots of signed #pizzapete books, 1 tired author! Thank you to all the schools and amazing bookshops Westbourne Bookshop Maxminervas.bsky.social P & G Wells Borzoi Bookshop FourbearsBooks and @Caff_Ward for organising the whole thing.

Thank you so much ❤️

📢 Did you catch the The Week Junior Book Awards news earlier this week? The 2024 winners have been announced! 🥳🎉Congratulations to the winning authors and illustrators! Find out about the winning books here: booksfortopics.com/news-2024-week…

Where’s there smoke there’s fire… 😂😂

I have a new course for November! 🎨 Join "Ink with Impact" – a 4-week book illustration course with Sarah Horne! Build your portfolio, master storytelling, and learn business essentials. Starts Nov 18, Mondays 7:30 PM GMT. Limited spots! #Illustration sarahhorne.studio

Rarely here nowadays… I have jumped over to Bluesky- come and find me there for more jibber jabberings from me, also LinkedIn and insta

A popular series from our YEAR 3 recommended booklist - Charlie Changes Into a Chicken: booksfortopics.com/book/charlie-c… ✅ Entertaining read-aloud ✅ Tongue-in-cheek humour and funny asides ✅ Themes of emotional literacy and bullying ✅ Downloadable resources ✅ Audiobook available

Like a bright yellow beacon in the dark winter, the second book in the Betty Steady series comes out next week! I hope you like it. I’m very proud of this book, partly because I wrote it while my little girl was a tiny newborn in my arms.

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Happy #PublicationDay to #BettySteadyAndTheQueensOrb by Nicky Smith-Dale 🍄 and Sarah Horne published by Farshore A riotously funny #MG title Will post review soon! 😊📚

Turniperous fun from start to finish #BettySteadyandtheQueensOrb Nicky Smith-Dale 🍄 illus. Sarah Horne Farshore is #RedReadingHub’s #kidlit #fiction book of the day reviewed now on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-cUo

🎉 Happy #PublicationDay! 🎉 ✨ Who’s Lovely? by Camilla Reid – @macmillankidsuk 🌟 Betty Steady and the Queen’s Orb by Sarah Horne (Sarah Horne) – @farshorebooks 🎉 Grimwood Party Animals (PB) by Nadia Shireen (@nadiashireen) – Simon & Schuster Children's Books 📚✨

OUT NOW! I can’t believe I have two whole books published. What a dream come true!

Pre-orders help bookshops and writers/illustrators/translators SO much! They help the bookseller know how many books to order and boost the first-week sales, which mean way more than they ought when business decisions are being made. They help keep your favourite creators afloat!

‘Betty Steady and the Queen’s Orb is exactly the sort of book that primary school librarians and teachers want to have in their collections to encourage children to read for pleasure.’ Thanks for such a thoughtful review, Veronica. 🥰

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So this is happening … I am EXPANDING!Sarah Horne Studio will be open for licensing, cards, prints and beautiful products very, very soon! Launching soon, meantime, please join the mailing list for updates sarahhorne.co and follow on insta. @sarahhorne_studio