'Someday, Maybe,' the debut novel of Nigerian author 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚖’𝚜 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙.*, is our #GMABookClub pick for November!

Find out more and read an excerpt here: gma.abc/3NsoO1a

Bought 2.4kg of Celebrations and we still ran out of sweets 😅

Wendell & Wild is very very enjoyable!

genuinely so heartening to have a victory like this in this awful era of defeat

Incarcerated women who don't have access to clothes (as infuriating as that is) need access to them now, so please donate sizes 18+ if you can.

I will never tire of London 2012 being the peak of modern society in liberal middle class British imagination, as if the riots didn't happen the year before and we weren't two years deep in austerity.

Oh My Gods! It was a joy chatting to Alexandra Sheppard about her writing career - we learnt how she earns her living, what inspires her (we agree, Disney's Hercules is canon) and her unexpected love of doing school visits.

Read more: ow.ly/LxwL50LmQHe

I love that no amount of money will ever give this man the one thing he wants - being funny

I'm so troubled that people seem not to have known authors should be deducting agent commissions. We have got to find a way to educate newbie authors on the basics. At the very least, follow Tess Sharpe, who does lots of industry explainers.

Imagine the stadium lights going out and all you hear is

“THESE MUTHAFUCKAS AIN’T STOPPING ME”

Happy birthday Knights Of! So proud of everything you've achieved. Here's to another five years 🥳

we commissioned this art (by Nadia Akingbule) to celebrate our 5th birthday, at which point I realised we've hit 30 (THIRTY) books!! my love forever to the authors & illustrators who trusted us with their work, and the ones who continue to choose to work with me editorially🥰💛✨

I’m sure it looked nice to have Rishi, Priti, that black guy they just kicked out and Kemi Badenoch as effniks but they all wanted / want us dead. They’ve stolen our money. They HATE us. Forget representation politics right now and BE FOCKEN FOCUSED.

Imaging white Tories arguing with you because you’re too racist.

'Alright, Jamie Oliver, your protagonist is a boy. What should we call him?'

'I don't know. Billy?'

'Cool, yeah. What sort of adventure should he go on?'

'A big adventure?'

*dropping pen* 'That's brilliant.'

We now know that Don't Pay. strategy works.

A short🧵 ...

Leaks from E.on confirmed the strategy works

They described the threat of a strike as an “existential threat”, and went straight to Kwasi Kwarteng, demanding he do something

Here’s one of the slides they showed him...

Here’s a thread on a few things I’ve found helpful when it comes to organising a school visit with an author. These are things I’ve observed that might help teachers as well as fellow authors and illustrators.
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If you're freelance put your rates up. Ignore the voice in your head that worries about it and do it. We're living through severe inflation & cost of living and you need to be paid in line with that. You can tell them I gave you permission*

*I am not famous nor important