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Oh dear. Just noticed I forgot to post the picture & alt text. Clearly I have much to learn when it comes to social media, promotion, & PAYING ATTENTION. You can pre-order through the links in my bio. Go on! You might like it! Look at that gorgeous cover! #ukkidlit #kidlituk #middlegrade #fantasy

This story is in our collection. Only 20 copies left.. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Congratulation to all of the finalists and winners of the World Fantasy Awards! locusmag.com/2026/10...

Hi, I’m Chloe, I’m a squishy human person who’s been around for donkey’s years, and this is my artwork. I sell it online because this is the path of least resistance currently. Here are ten recent pictures all of which are currently for sale through my website. www.chloecumming.com

Children's book clubs! You can win sets of my book or When the Birds Wake Up by Jessica Mary Ellis, & extra goodies, at this competition run by @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social & @readingagency.bsky.social Enter via the link before 2 November! #ukkidlit #kidlituk #readingforpleasure #schoollibraries

A lovely story to start your day:

Honestly several things are depressing about ai but the two that stand out are the eagerness of people to outsource thought because cognitive effort is uncomfortable, and the casualness with which people use the shiny, easy thing knowing it's bad for climate change

We now have page up over at the NSP place for Douglas. Many friends, colleagues, fellow poets and former students have contributed. Do share. northseapoets.substack.com/p/douglas-du...

Between tick & tock lies a dislocated hour. Home to things with names too terrible to say. In the lost hours, in the gained hours, temporal spirits come through. Between tick and tock, some swear they can hear a soul trapped in time, scratching at glass. #ClocksGoBack

By me for today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social: Why horror fiction is having a moment, with @gnofhorror.com, @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social, @jamieleenardone.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Children's book clubs! You can win sets of my book or When the Birds Wake Up by Jessica Mary Ellis, & extra goodies, at this competition run by @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social & @readingagency.bsky.social Enter via the link before 2 November! #ukkidlit #kidlituk #readingforpleasure #schoollibraries

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated #Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵 1/2

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o... #ukkidlit #kidlituk

'From Pentonville Road Looking West, London, Evening' (1884) by John O'Connor (London Museum)

I've been on Lucas Maxwell's Booklings Chat podcast, chatting about writing, crap Victorian food & being an idiot. I was petrified, but Lucas is so friendly & funny I had a great time. If you don't know his podcast, check it out! Also, read his book it's ace. #ukkidlit #kidlituk #booksky

I published my first story in 1988, when I was 17 years old. Today, at 55, I've published more than 30 books, with three more coming in the next year or so. In the intervening years, I've spent a lot of time thinking and talking about publishing.

Durer’s hare has moved to the forest, for a snack. Yum! By Hans Hoffmann, 1585, at the end of his day.

Virgin Mary bops red tutu-clad devil on the nose, and grabs back a written contract that a wayward cleric had earlier signed with the devil but later recanted. This image is from one of the earliest known Books of Hours to survive (The De Brailes Hours, 1420) searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

Born on this day in 1620, in Dordrecht, Aelbert Cuyp. Painter of cows (especially!), elegant people, golden landscapes, and (thank goodness) dogs. All to be seen here in 1655.

Finally finished for @skullsandsheets.bsky.social brilliant fundraising auction for domestic violence charities. A folk collision where a 1920s tray meets a 60s dress, a 50s tray cloth sewn by a stranger meets 40s doilies & napkins embroidered by my gran, her fake pearls & my own stitches + painting

Reminded today of this all-timer from the early days of The Internet

Every Wednesday (erm Thursday!), I will post a children’s book I’ve enjoyed. If you’ve read it too, or you want to share another book, join in! Kòkú Àkànbí: The Heart of Midnight, by Maria Motúnráyò Àdébísí, illus by Simone Douglas. Alt text for why I like it. #ukkidlit #kidlituk #middlegrade

Anyone in Falmouth, my son Charlie is running a print-making class at Sailors Jail gallery where you can make a folklore-inspired greetings card. sailorsjail.com/products/pri...

Astonished in the nicest possible way to find A Scrap of Moss & Magick is the critic's choice of the week for children's books! Thank you very much Emily Bearn for your kind words! #ukkidlit #kidlituk

I retweeted it earlier, but realised a bit of quote context might be useful: Excellent comedian (have seen/listened before!) and well worth an evening of your life! National tour, and tour dates are on her site.

From Wellcome Collection.

Thank you to everyone posting about Brian & Wendy Froud's new book, containing 72 new paintings with literary responses by 37 women writers of diverse backgrounds, landscapes & mythic traditions. Having worked on the project for the last two years, we've all been moved by the enthusiastic response.

It's been announced in the last few minutes that the entertainer Mickey Mouse died this morning; he was 97.

Why zero (0) lessons have been successfully planned so far today:

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

Bluesky, I am up for an award! You can vote for me! Please vote for me! It's for the "best children's book of the decade". Yes I realise the decade isn't over. Maybe it's counting from 2016 to 2026 or something. Vote Stowell early and vote Stowell often! nationalbooktokens.com/readers-awards

#NationalYearofReading #bookbloggers #librarians What have been your stand out reads this year? 📚@thatstephendaly.bsky.social @ihussainwriter.bsky.social @jacquisydney.bsky.social @vonprice.bsky.social @hookablebooks.bsky.social @slatterymr.bsky.social @hejparry.bsky.social @bookcraic.bsky.social

This painting was a result of Francis Cadell being turned down to join the British army in 1914. He worked on a farm in Dumfries, Scotland (depicted here) in an attempt to improve his fitness - he later passed the medical board's examination and joined the Royal Scot's Guards.

A tragic episode of history and a fascinating window on Georgian Britain. #Bridgerton fans take note - a black Queen Dowager and princesses were known here in that era.

It's publication day for A Scrap of Moss & Magick! Officially out in the world, with @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social. It feels at once wildly thrilling & strangely distant. (Alt Text for extended thanks! Links in bio!) Good luck, little book, out in the world! Go well! #ukkidlit #kidlituk #middlegrade

Thank you to the wonderful Paperbound magazine, which has published a piece by me: