Surprise, #Heartstopper fans! To celebrate Alice Oseman Updates's #HayFestival2023 appearance, our friends Shepherds Ice Cream have created a special-edition flavour, available exclusively on site in a cone, tub, or even a milkshake. 🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂

'Why our future depends on libraries, reading & daydreaming' Neil Gaiman "We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries...If you do not value libraries then you do not value info or culture or wisdom." theguardian.com/books/2013/oct…

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ICYMI, out now #BfK260. Authorgraph interview Jackie Morris; Rob Ramsden Windows into Illustration; ten of the best Irish children's books; new Beyond the Secret Garden; Pictured Worlds; children's #poetry; Ele Fountain; plus new #ChildrensBooks reviews ow.ly/NA0B50OsOmy

Congratulations Mererid Hopwood, recipient of the #HayFestival2023 Medal for Poetry. 📸: Adam Tatton-Reid

Our principles for authors and AI: 💲 Humans must be paid for their work 👩‍💻 Tech mustn't undermine rights 🔁 Licensing must include multiple uses 🤖 Stakeholders must acknowledge limitations 📖 AI that supports creatives should be pursued Read more: ow.ly/4llm50OvsbN

Introducing your new Children's Laureate Wales Children's Laureate Wales... 💥 Alex Wharton 💥 #HayFestival2023 Alex Wharton

Congratulations Vaseem Khan from all at PLR. Vaseem is one of our valued Advisory Committee Members.

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I'm so proud of doing my first Triathlon - the amazing Mid Sussex Tri Club this weekend with @mattcarrdesigns and raising money for Cure Parkinson's - still time to donate to a v good cause justgiving.com/page/emily-dra… #ParkinsonsTogether

“It was so fun. Well, actually, I was terrified.” – Heartstopper author Alice Oseman Updates on her cameo in the Netflix adaptation in our free film of the week on #HayPlayer. Watch now hayfestival.com/hayplayer

Sign up for PLR by the 30th June. bl.uk/plr - so this is for when your book's borrowed from libraries While you're at it, ALCS pays you for your work which is copied, broadcast or recorded. I made more here than in royalties last year bl.uk/plr

It is the last week of the current PLR year. You have until midnight on Friday to make sure your registrations are up to date. #libraries #books #authorscommunity ALCS Society of Authors

Writers, editors, translators, contributors….it’s the last few days of PLR & it’s easy & free to register & list work. While you’re at it, go & register at ALCS - which has a wider remit than you may imagine. I just earned hundreds from that tiny bit of bookkeeping

Happy 50th Birthday British Library! To celebrate, we went snooping behind the scenes in the world's second-largest library londonist.com/london/feature…

It’s the @BritishLibrary’s 50th birthday! This biscuit (cookie) set is inspired by the British Library’s wonderful collections. Each biscuit depicts an item from one of their six core collection areas: stamps, newspapers, manuscripts, printed materials, maps, and sounds. 🍪

Wonderful, wonderful CLPE team being absolutely wonderful. Gobsmacked, speechless and quite overwhelmed by this - just wonderful.

Have you ever wondered where the money we pay out to writers comes from? Then this new animation is for you: youtu.be/_7aleJt8Ae8

What would you do for someone you loved? The Little Train is a tale of a train that daydreams of leaving the sleepy village of Little Snoreing to explore the world, written and illustrated by Dorothy Craigie... or is it? 📗 The Little Train (1946) held by Seven Stories

After publishing, it was uncovered that while Craigie created the vibrant illustrations, Graham Greene was the secret author of the story. Greene was in love with Craigie and put her name on the work so she could earn some money – now doesn't that just make your heart burst! 🥹