Chren Byng

Children’s book publisher at Hardie Grant. Tweets my own. Debut picture book, FLOCKED, out now.

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@slamup @HardieGrantCP @arrjaydub 🥳🥳🥳

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@Brocklesnitch And the bra strap bit of her bikini!

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@DoorDash Hi there, I cancelled my door pass on 13 Jan 2023 and my partner has just told me we are still being charged?

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@Brocklesnitch There was a period in time when the US didn’t have backstreet boys! And when they did release an album there, it was a mix of songs from the first two albums we had had in Aus/Europe, meaning ‘Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)’ was on their US debut 🙃

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@Toltzable @HardieGrantCP There sure are! https://t.co/PQNAU6lsvV

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@slamup Our school does this at their end-of-semester celebrations. They’ll have a bookseller in the library, & kids pick a book, pay & write their name on a slip. When the book goes into the library it has a ‘donated by’ sticker in the front. We bought ITSOTT at the one we just had 😘

[Vaxine Beneba Clarke @slamup]

If you edit my books, you get to deal with stuff like this where even one tiny punctuation edit throws the entire poem out of whack and then it takes half an hour to fix it. It’s fun! Come join us!🤨🤣😂😭😭😭

[Vaxine Beneba Clarke @slamup]

So thrilled about this book - it has been such a long time in the making. I want all kids to have the opportunity to fall in love with poetry the way I did. Hopefully there’s a poem in there for everyone! Now available for pre-order. Out June 7.

[Vaxine Beneba Clarke @slamup]

Filming some snippets for my upcoming kids poetry book. Lol! Somebody make me the resident Playschool Poet please. ABC, you have my number, this is a formal pitch document. You know it’s a good idea, make it happen.🤣😂🙏🏾

[Vaxine Beneba Clarke @slamup]

I have a book of 100 new contemporary poems for kids out in June this year with @HardieGrantCP! It includes limericks, haiku, sonnets, acrostic poems, tongue twisters, free verse & more. Big thanks to @Creative_Vic for funding the latter part of this absolutely mammoth project.

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@TriciaDearborn @vic_reader I do ‘who sells stationery? A stationer.’

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@heatherbigkid @AndrewJoyner8 @coralvass @JessRacklyeft Oh, thanks!! 🥰

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@_budgie Publishing emails (esp kids’ publishing emails ) were already a fairly informal land of ‘hurrah!s’ and ALL CAPS EXCITEMENT and kissy sign-offs, but the pandemic unleashed the emoji and the genie ain’t going back in the bottle 🥰🥳😇

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@roch_town Oh no!

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@msmisrule I was beside myself. I was sixteen or so, and I remember my mum coming home and finding me on the lounge room floor, crying. For years, I’d just have to think of Carter seeing her and I’d be 😭

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@msmisrule Lucy. I don’t think I could rewatch it.

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@nicolasantilli So glad! And, YES, I did it in 2012 but would love to do it again.

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@claresmillar Should work now, Clare.

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

Aus kids’ book Twitter: further broadening our freelance pool and v much hoping to get hot tips on clever editors/proofreaders, ideally with kids’ book exp, who are trans, NB or living anywhere else outside the binary. Let me know if you know great people!

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@JessHealyWalton @nicolasantilli @WritingJordi Following you now, so should be good!

[Chren Byng @ChrenKali]

@claresmillar Hi Clare — drop me a DM with your details and areas of interest/expertise. Cheers!