Lie or Die, the "dark, twisty" debut YA thriller from a j clack has been signed by Firefly Press. Read here: buff.ly/42UL9dL

I caught up with antonia maxwell ⚡️⚡️⚡️ for Words & Pictures about her debut MG Terra Electrica! This adventure book about a virus that feeds on electricity found its home with Neem Tree Press. Antonia's advice to new authors: "Show up - every day - and write." ✍️ wordsandpics.org/2024/11/debut-…

Deal News! 🚨 Lie or Die: Blood Moon, the even more deadly follow-up by A. J. Clack (a j clack), will be published by Firefly Press in autumn 2025. Agent: Saskia Leach (Saskia Leach) Acquiring Editor: Penny Thomas (Penny Thomas) Full Story: thebookseller.com/rights/firefly…

Please Retweet Children in Read 2025 Update. Due to the kindness of Authors, Illustrators & Bidders There is a revised total raised. A fantastic £14,926 is the new total. From everyone on the CinR team and on behalf of BBC Children in Need Thank You ❤️

Yesterday I was doing a little research on autistic characters in children's stories for a presentation for SCBWI British Isles next year. I have a small budget to explore this further from the Arts Council so any children's book suggestions please leave here. Cc: Zeena Gos

📚✨ Exciting news! The shortlist for the Warwickshire Secondary Book Award 2025 is here! 🎉 Check out these amazing titles that students across the county will be reading 😊! #WSBA2025 Jeffrey Boakye Alastair Chisholm Dev Kothari Tom Percival Kimberly Whittam SJ Wills 💚💜💙

Stunned & delighted Secrets of the Snakestone’s been shortlisted for this award, voted by adults & school pupils! Looking forward to the celebratory weekend next April & the chance to hopefully meet fellow shortlistees Matt Goodfellow & Ben Davis Nosy Crow Kate Shaw 🐍💎✨✨

Librarians, parents, teachers! You’ll be swamped with Wicked book requests. BUT the 📖 is very different from the📽️ & contains mature content unsuitable for kids ⚠️So here are some kid-friendly, witchy recs to go with their fave songs. Why not put on a wickedly cool shelf? 👀✨👇🏽

Looking for something thrilling, romantic, slice-of-life or dystopian for the young adult in your life? ⁠ Free gift wrapping as standard on all orders at fireflypress.co.uk🎄📚️⁠ ⁠ Kate Mallinder 📚💙 Manon Steffan Ros a j clack Zeena Gos Luke Palmer ⁠ Bounce Sales and Marketing ❤️📗

IT’S HAPPENING — Cemetery Boys 2: ESPÍRITU will be released 9/16/25! 😱 you can add it to goodreads AND preorder your copy! massive thanks to L Whitt for the design and THE Mars ☆ for the cover art! goodreads.com/book/show/2191… barnesandnoble.com/w/cemetery-boy… a.co/d/61dM6vr

201 journalists were killed to tell you the truth, are you doing anything?

Psst… 2025’s Year of the Snake! Perfect to ssslither through the Paris sewers with my book Ssecrets of the Snakestone! To celebrate I’m giving away: 🐍 Signed copy 🐍Copy of Everything You Need to Know About Snakes 🐍 Stevie snake jellycat! Retweet for a chance to win.Ends 29/1

Thrilled with this wonderful review of #pandoraandthestoryforge ! 😍Andrews weaves lyrical prose and vivid imagery into a narrative that celebrates the timeless beauty and transformative power of storytelling. booksforkeeps.co.uk/?p=55839 Rocket Bird Books

OUR 2025 LONGLIST 🙌 Huge congratulations to the talented debut #childrensbooks authors and editors longlisted for this year's #BranfordBoaseAward 🎉🎆🎉 Find out more about this year's longlist ➡️ branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2025-longlist/

Aboslutely thrilled to have This Dark Heart, written by Zeena Gosrani and edited by Hayley Fairhead longlisted for the Branford Boase Award Award 2025! Huge congratulations to Zeena and Hayley.🎉 Find out more: branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2025-longlist/

Cover Reveal! 🚨 We are thrilled to share the cover to LIE OR DIE: BLOOD MOON by A. J. Clack (a j clack), a deadly YA Thriller that is the perfect blend of #SquidGame2 meets #TheTraitorsUK. Out 2nd October 2025, reality TV is about to get a whole lot darker... #LieorDie

🚨Cover reveal🚨 Lie or Die:Blood Moon is out Oct 2nd. #LieorDie was just a rehearsal. Welcome to Blood Moon. 🗡🐺🌙

Sssstunned to be on this list, and in what awesome company! 😍 🐍💎