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Quicksmiths College of Strange Energy - follow for posts about riddles, thinking sideways and cool things #MiddleGrade #KidLit @writingloris @fireflypress

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Book cover reveal of the US edition of Ten Riddles from wonderful author @LauraStegman 😍😍

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I so enjoyed this thoughtful Q&A with Eddy at Stoomio reviews - click to find out my answer to the most important question an author can ever be asked: fave biscuit @FireflyPress #middlegrade #booklaunch #edutwitter #BookTwitter #sciencefiction

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Cyber Ciphers spotted in the wild at The Old Hall Bookshop in Brackley - a fabulous and enormous book treasury 😍 I spy some other @fireflypress authors there Bigfoot Mountain and Grimstink by @idanielpeak

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#CyberCiphers has been bumped up a very long reading list so I'm told - very honoured! 😍😍

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The #CyberCiphers of Eartha Quicksmith
📚 Available for preorder now
📅 Out 28 August in all good bookshops
#MiddleGradeBooks #KidLit #BookDeals #ReadingCommunity

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Things you'll find in #CyberCiphers:
🦑 New fantastical creatures
⚛️ A new table of Strange Elements with arcane properties
💚 Heartwarming discoveries about what it means to be family
🌍 Ecological messages about overmining for rare metals
#MGLit #MGreads #ScienceFantasy

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✨ If you like the idea of…
🔹 Riddles from a Renaissance genius
🔹 Steampunk androids 🤖
🔹 Notes from the past in UV ink 🔦
🔹 A hidden Molten Ocean 🌊
…then The #CyberCiphers of Eartha Quicksmith was written for you.
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The penultimate post in my UV secret messages series... Androids and strange supercomputers who take human forms comprise the “cyber” in The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith.
#CyberCiphers #BookTwitter #MiddleGrade #KidLit #MGbooks #ReadingCommunity

[lorisowen @writingloris]

We need to stop and think like responsible parents because as we build AI, we are creating children. One day, they will likely be looking after us. Who do we want them to be?'
#thinking #philosophyforkids #middlegrade
The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith' is out 28 August.

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In Cyber Ciphers, I wanted to explore a little bit of what’s going on in the world of AI at present, where suddenly an AI starts lionising Hitler or rewriting the truth of history in favour of one race or another. #amreading #steamforkids #stemforkids #middlegradebooks

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As the philosopher John Locke once sagely observed, ‘the great art of learning is to understand but a little at a time.’ Treasuring old wisdom has real value, as evidence mounts about negative effects of smartphones and social media on children’s mental health. #MGlit #thinking

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I’ve yet to visit a class where kids don’t delight in treasure hunting for answers to riddles. Lips move silently as they think; they chatter, ideas spilling out; or they fidget, exhilarated, as their thoughts take them to new places #MiddleGrade #KidLit #riddle #childrensbooks

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Alchemy is one of my favourite daydreams: tiny chests, vials and jars in a magical chemistry lab. In The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith, Kip discovers the Strange Elements - substances with atomic depth and extraordinary properties.
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I’ve had this tiny treasure chest since childhood. Usually, it holds a minuscule crystal and the world’s smallest green feather, but it was the perfect place to hide a secret word in UV ink.
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This drawing of a mysterious fish is one of my favourites, bought from a gallery in Bali. Couldn't resist tagging with UV ink (on the glass, not the art itself!) #CyberCiphers is out 28/8, available from @FireflyPress @waterstones_kids and indie bookshops.
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On their latest adventure, Kip, Leela, Albert & Timmi travel to a Molten Ocean teeming with impossible sea life. But the Grittleshank mines have thrown it out of balance, with terrible consequences.
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Well @writingloris I can't believe my time at #Quicksmiths is over. A brilliant ending to a marvellous, magical puzzlers delight. #TheCyberCiphersOfEarthaQuicksmith had some new adversaries, but we made some new friends.
A real heart burst of a read; simply wonderful.

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I got the telescope shown on my writing desk in the photo to help me figure out one of the puzzles in The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith - one related to the telescopic compacting of the device.

#NewBook #sciencefiction #fantasybooks out 28 August

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Eartha Quicksmith’s Futurescope is her greatest invention, its name whispered in corridors and revered by sages. But she paid a high price to use it, becoming irradiated by the ultra-strange Aeon Light coursing through its mechanisms.
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