✨🌟THE CITY BEYOND THE STARS🌟✨ is out in the UK today!! Thank you so much to my brilliant agent Julia Churchill and the incredible team Simon & Schuster Children's Books - especially Arub and Ali Dougal ,who made working on this sequel such a joy.✨✨

IT'S GOING TO BE ICONIC!! (literally, um, the reality show is called Iconic . . .)

She’s out today!!! Literally guys, these two books are two of my fave kidlit books ever: the power of words and protest and collective action and friendship!! It’s absolutely brilliant, please go pick up both!!

Happy Publication Day! 🎉🤩
✨The City Beyond the Stars Zohra Nabi illus Tom Clohosy Cole
🕰️Twice Upon A Time Michelle Harrison illus 🇺🇦 Natalie Smillie 🇺🇦
🪶When the Wild Calls Nicola Penfold cover Júlia Moscardó
🌊Tariq and the Drowning City Sarwat Chadda illus Vivienne To

📚 Excited to celebrate The Reading Agency's Quick Reads 2024 launch! Designed for less confident readers, #QuickReads offers short books by bestselling authors to engage 1 in 3 adults who don't read for pleasure & 1 in 6 who find reading tough.

I tell you though writing romcoms and children’s fiction means I’ve heard it all about how what I write is lesser and doesn’t matter and is frivolous but ok babes, I’ll do it anyway, enjoy your joyless life 💅

New podcast episode and it’s an exciting one because I’m talking to Ruth Galloway! Jane McDowell tells me about narrating the Ruth books and how she imagines the characters as animals. Nelson would love his… #ThePlotThickens

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I think problem here is what's getting made or adapted (or rather, not) and not the quality of the source material in the genre, but, I would say that.

just putting this here, as i approach four years on the waiting list for my first appointment gofundme.com/f/help-dylan-g…