INTRODUCING your #Nibbies judges✨ The #BritishBookAward judges "bring to our 35th year an eye-watering level of authority, skill and expertise. These are voracious readers with an extraordinary breadth of knowledge, who love the world of books and the people who make them."

So honoured to be a judge for The British Book Awards again this year - very excited to get started and read all of the amazing entries! #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies The Bookseller / thebookseller.com/nibbies

Very hard to step away from this site - I've met so many wonderful people here & there's still such a great disabled community I would miss, but for obvious reasons, trying to make the move to Bluesky, so if you'd like to connect there, find me at: bsky.app/profile/catmit…

Fabulous to finally meet Cat Mitchell in person. We discussed a very exciting project we are working on together. More details soon! #publishing

My article on the accessibility of the London Book Fair is out today with The Bookseller. A big thank you to everyone who I interviewed for the piece! You can read it here: thebookseller.com/comment/how-ac…

I missed visiting The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 during my Publishing at Derby degree due to the pandemic. But this great piece by Cat Mitchell for The Bookseller explores accessibility at this exhibition & where how it could improve future events. 📚 thebookseller.com/comment/how-ac…

I love joking about how Olympia is the seventh circle of autistic hell, but this article is so important - I had no idea there was a dedicated quiet space, but by the sound of it, that space was lacking anyway. Big kudos to Cat for spotlighting LBF’s accessibility issues!

This piece covers a lot of the accessibility issues at LBF and although it became a bit of a giggle when I went last week, the difficulty of finding different levels/floors, finding lifts and the lack of signage/maps really was quite ridiculous for an event of this size!

1. Cat Mitchell and I are delighted to announce that we're going to be co-editing a #disability takeover issue of The Bookseller on 20th June 2025. What does the industry need to do to become more inclusive? Email us at [email protected] #publishing

2. Sadly space is tight & we can't commission features but we'd love to hear from disabled/chronically ill authors/booksellers/publishing staff whether they think the publishing industry has improved for us over the past five years and if not, what would make most difference?

Happy publication day to the wonderful Penny Batchelor - Author!

A huge dream-come-true moment: this August I’ll be speaking at Edinburgh International Book Festival about disability in publishing! We’ll be discussing the work of Inklusion Guide and what the future holds for disability activism in the sector. More details here: edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/w…

Tomorrow is the #DisabilityTakeover edition of The Bookseller co-edited by me & Cat Mitchell with previews from award-winning poet Polly Atkin. Please retweet, read the edition & support #disabled authors, booksellers & publishing staff. thebookseller.com Embla Books

Not celebrating Disability Pride is a missed opportunity to show that disabled people are a priority in publishing, to be both supported and celebrated, says Cat Mitchell (Cat Mitchell) 👇 thebookseller.com/spotlight/publ…

Over the moon to see Real When I'm With You featured in The Bookseller's Disability Previews - thank you, Polly Atkin! And a huge congratulations to Penny Batchelor - Author and Cat Mitchell on the return of the much-needed, vital Disability Focus, more important than ever to support.

Very proud moment ahead of Disability Pride Month in July: Penny Batchelor and I co-edited a disability spotlight in this week’s The Bookseller magazine 📚📚 Big thanks to everyone involved in the issue and who provided quotes and info! thebookseller.com/features/publi…

"We still have a long way to go for disabled authors and staff to achieve parity with their non-disabled colleagues." Penny Batchelor - Author and Cat Mitchell discuss what you can do to become a disibility ally in this week's disability focus 👇 thebookseller.com/spotlight/we-a…

Fab comment piece by Penny Batchelor - Author & Cat Mitchell in Disability Takeover issue of The Bookseller Industry initiatives incl ref to upcoming Reflecting Disability Project report due later this year (two. in children’s books) #DisabilityPrideMonth thebookseller.com/comment/we-all….