It has arrived!
I was very excited to receive my author copies of The School Magazine's Touchdown and discover not one but five stunning illustrations by Rosemary Fung! I think I'm going to need to get one of them framed!
👀 desperately eying my mailbox, waiting for my contributor copy of The School Magazine's Touchdown in which my children's fairy tale MELISANDE appears.
Melisande 🐻, she makes a wish and makes a difference.
Can't wait to see all the fantastic illustrations by Rosemary Fung!
Publication day! Head to Corvid Queen to read my legend-inspired tale of love and metamorphosis in which a lake finds itself walking on two feet (for a while).
https://t.co/4XwRt15HBC
One week to go to get your #KelpiesPrize entry submitted! (Anyone else getting deja vu here? 😅) Our judging team are getting ready to dive into your spectacular stories and amazing artwork - Writers and Illustrators of Scotland, we want you! https://t.co/GG9aG8JlZX
Never on here these days, so doubt this will be seen, but I'm doing the Barnes Kids Lit School programme this year. 4th of June. Free to attend, schools just need to sign up via the Barnes Kids Lit website.
It's for Y5 & Y6 and completely free of charge.
RTs appreciated!
🚨FLASH GIVEAWAY!🚨
We have 23 gorgeous picture books by Carnegie Winner Aaron Becker to give away to school libraries (UK only), thanks to our friends at @WalkerBooksUK.
Repost this post and tag @WalkerBooksUK by midnight on 26th to be in with a chance of winning.
Deadline closing to write to your local MP and to @Soc_of_Authors registering concern about proposed change in copyright legislation regarding AI. This would be a serious threat to the livelihoods of individual authors and illustrators and to the #creativeindustries as a whole.
On this day in 2018 the great singer of The Cranberries Dolores O'Riordan passed away.
In her honor, here is one of her greatest performances. "Zombie" in 1999.
Il était le cinéaste derrière ELEPHANT MAN, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, TWIN PEAKS. Un maître du bizarre. Un gourou transcendantal. Et beaucoup d'autres choses, dès lors qu'il ne faisait rien comme personne.
L'immense David Lynch nous a quitté ce jeudi à l'âge de 78 ans 🕊️
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Our resources and film, created with @tompalmerauthor, aim to support pupils' writing and build on the critical reflection skills that will shape them as compassionate adults.
Explore: https://t.co/1bUdyS2PYE
❛ I never continue to the next page until I am happy with the one I am writing. Goodness knows how many times I go over it. I don’t mind that though, it is a case of getting it right.
Paddington creator and author Michael Bond, born #OTD in 1926.
Great to see how many supportive MSPs the team engaged with today @ScotParl - and we need that to lead to more national support for the school library sector in Scotland.
Closing libraries and making school librarians redundant should be an impossible thing to imagine in a civilised country. These are vital assets. As Carnegie said, ‘a library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people.’