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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Waterstones are running a huge summer pre-order campaign and ROWAN is included! If you order online today or tomorrow you can get 25% off! Just head to the website and enter SUMMER26 at the checkout for the discount to apply! www.waterstones.com/book/rowan/b...

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Mich Kenney @michkenneybooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I am over the moon to share the stunning, festive cover of THE KISS OF THE SEASON! 💫 With old secrets, moorland mists and a gothic undertone, the artwork perfectly captures the ‘lost love’ vibe of Thomas & Arabella at the Knightswood Twelfth Night Ball…

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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Q&A with Bex Hogan about her new young adult novel, OWL KING. deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2026/05/q-wi... @bexhogan.bsky.social

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Thrilled to see both NETTLE and OWL KING included in this fantastic list! 🥰

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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 05/05/2026

"A dark, captivating YA tale of deception and survival, set in the same faery world as Nettle." Enter to win a copy of @bexhogan.bsky.social's "Owl King" from Tundra Books #💙📚 #Booksky www.librarything.com/ner/detail/5...

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I am buzzing with excitement that BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS is included in #Bookbuzz Primary this year! This is a great initiative from @booktrust.org.uk to encourage Year 3-6s to read for pleasure, and I'm honoured that my book is part of it! Find out more here: bit.ly/4tqHvqw

A poster with a picture of the book BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS by Bex Hogan, and the text reads 'Selected for Bookbuzz Primary 2026!' BookTrust

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 07/05/2026

🥳 Amazing news alert... We're thrilled to unveil the #Bookbuzz Primary 2026 books! Picked by our selection panel, including teachers and other experts, these 16 books cover a range of formats, genres and themes to make sure there's something for everyone! 📚

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Spark! School Book Award @sparkbookaward.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Once again, we have a brilliant line-up of SEVEN author visits next week. Don't forget to sign up via the links on our Online Author Event Schedule or watch along on our YouTube livestream. @bexhogan.bsky.social @tanyaturnerwriter.bsky.social @mossmontmomery.bsky.social

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

So excited to share the gorgeous cover for ROWAN, the third standalone book in my Faery Realms series! Out 8th October 2026, it tells the story of Rowan who follows a white hare into the mysterious Shadow Mountains. The stunning cover is by Daniela Terrazzini 😍 Available to preorder now! #UKKidLit

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Spark! School Book Award @sparkbookaward.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

In today's author spotlight, @bexhogan.bsky.social tells us about her enchanting story 'Nettle', inspired by 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' & traditional fairytales, and shortlisted in our 11+ category. @zephyrbooks.bsky.social youtu.be/uH78mVE9AEs?...

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Just a reminder that it's the last day to get 25% off when you pre-order the OWL KING paperback at Waterstones. Use code FEB26 at checkout! #KidLitUK #BookSky 💙📚 www.waterstones.com/book/owl-kin...

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I'm so excited to be attending Farnham Literary Festival on 12th March 2026 where I will be talking all things 'Faeries and Fantasy'. If you are able to come along, I would love to see you! Event starts at 18.30 and all details in link. #BookSky 💙📚 farnhamliteraryfestival.co.uk/event/faerie...

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Faeries and Fantasy: An author talk with Bex Hogan - Farnham Literary Festival

Join Bex Hogan for a magical evening of stories and secrets! Discover the inspiration behind her bestselling YA fantasy novels in an exclusive interview, followed [...]

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If you're waiting for the paperback copy of OWL KING to be published, I have good news! If you pre-order from Waterstones online and enter the code FEB26 at check out before end of Fri 20th Feb, you will get 25% off! 🦉👑 #UKKidLit #BookSky 💙📚 #KidLitUK www.waterstones.com/book/owl-kin...

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Owl King by Bex Hogan | Waterstones

Buy Owl King by Bex Hogan from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Absolutely thrilled to see NETTLE on the @sparkbookaward.bsky.social shortlist for 11+ 🥰 Huge congrats to all the other shortlisted authors in all categories! #kidlituk #UKKidLit #BookSky 💙📚

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is very lovely - Nettle is on the @sparkbookaward.bsky.social longlist for 11+ fiction! ❤️

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Forget Black Friday and celebrate #BookFriday on Nov 28th! This campaign celebrates the best books in our schools and libraries! My Reading Champion recommendation is WITCHSPARK by Dominique Valente 🥰 @booksfortopics.bsky.social #ReadingChampions #BooksForTopics #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

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Andy Shepherd @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Cover reveal! I loved writing #TheWoodWhereMagicGrows & there’s a whole lot more to come from the Treetoppers! #TheWoodWhereStoriesSing takes the children on a thrilling adventure with Crest the driftwood horse, to save Wildtop Wood. Coming 2 July 2026 - you can preorders now!

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Absolutely over the moon that NETTLE has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing! It's such a special award, I can't quite believe it! Huge thank you to @carnegiemedals.bsky.social and to my publisher @zephyrbooks.bsky.social 🥰 And congrats to all the other nominees! #Carnegies2026

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Come and join me, Ova Ceren and @hollyrace.bsky.social tomorrow at Waterstones Cambridge at 6pm, where we will be having a lovely time talking books and fantasy! We'd love to see you there! 🥰

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Snarhooked @snarhooked.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Happy publication day to @bexhogan.bsky.social's #OwlKing. It was a delight to return to the Faery Realms and learn more about the different courts. This is a lyrical, atmospheric tale with teeth. Out today, published by @zephyrbooks.bsky.social snarhookedonbooks.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o... #YA

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Owl King by Bex Hogan

I really enjoyed listening to the audiobook of Nettle by Bex Hogan and so was delighted to be able to read the sequel, Owl King. We are back in the realm of faery and this time we get to learn more…

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ed public relations @edpr.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

A very happy publication day to @bexhogan.bsky.social and her new book #OwlKing 😍 A hauntingly beautiful new faery tale, full of romance and magic, deception, and survival! Out today, published by @zephyrbooks.bsky.social

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

It's publication day and OWL KING is finally flying out into the world! It's a tale of the devotion of sisters, and the power stories have to save us. If you like dark faerytales, please do check it out! Published by @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Cover by @iamlaurael.bsky.social 🦉👑 tinyurl.com/96sve97z

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I am so looking forward to this FREE online event on Oct 9th with Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children's Books. If you know any secondary schools who might be interested, please do pass along. I will be talking about my favourite things - fairytales and folklore! #UKKidLit #BookSky 💙📚

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Caroline Fielding @cazapr1.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I picked up a proof of Owl King by @bexhogan.bsky.social at the @zephyrbooks.bsky.social stand at #YLGConference & it prompted me to go back in my tbr pile to find Nettle. I'm so glad I did because it is a wonderful story (beautiful covers by Laura El). Classic faerytale elements woven beautifully.

Cover. Nettle is written down the middle of the page, white writing with glossy red decoration. Scene is a moonlit forest (dark red moon) with small sprites hovering & a girl with fabric made of bright green nettles looking away towards a dark palace. A second moon (this white) is in the sky behind the palace

A wild misfit in the human world, Nettle is enthralled by the glamour of the faery realm, with its two moons and scarlet stars.
She grows close to Conor, a human stolen centuries before, and she also falls under the spell of mysterious Ellion, a shadow faery.
To try to help her beloved grandmother who is fading in her world, Nettle makes a pact with the faery king. He'll heal her grandmother in exchange for Nettle completing three tasks. She agrees, not realising that deception lurks in this enchanted place, and that she has been tricked.

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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 09/09/2025

"In this dangerous fantasy kingdom, Nettle discovers—too late—her part in an age-old love story... and the price she will pay..." Enter to win a copy of @bexhogan.bsky.social's "Nettle" from Tundra Books #💙📚 #Booksky

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I'm so happy to be working with @authorsalouduk.bsky.social for my school visits! Whether you're a primary school looking for a fun talk centred around knights and Lego, or a secondary wanting to chat Faeries or Pirates,then I would love to come and see you! 🥰

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ed public relations @edpr.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

If you're a fan of all things YA then be sure to check out #CampYA2025 where you'll find Asli Jensen and @bexhogan.bsky.social on the programme. Information on tickets and the full line up can be viewed here: campya.org/guests/

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Really looking forward to taking part in Camp YA this year! Come and join us, so many online panels to enjoy! ❤️

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Great to see OWL KING is a number one hot new release in YA Fairytales and Folklore! Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?! #KidLitUK #BookSky 💙📚

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Mich Kenney @michkenneybooks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Thrilled to spy Scandal in a HOT deals US bookbub for July - perfect timing with the current heatwave!🔥 So if deceptions and duels, secrets and masquerades and perhaps a Grand Masked Ball at the Palace of Versailles too .. sound your kind of escape why not snag a bargain?! ⚔️✨

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It's paperback publication day for NETTLE! 🍃🧚‍♀️

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The BLACK HEAT ebook is currently only 99p on kindle - what a bargain! This standalone YA fantasy follows three strangers during a time of war - a princess, a blacksmith and a midwife. As they each seek revenge, so their fates become entwined. #KidLitUK #BookSky 💙📚 #kindle tinyurl.com/49rdxxd2

Shows the book BLACK HEAT by Bex Hogan. The front has fiery flowers and the tagline 'Revenge Burns Deep'. On the back you can see more fiery flowers and the text reads, 'Three Women. Two Countries. One war. No Winners.'

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The paperback edition of NETTLE is coming next week! I absolutely adore the slight differences to the hardback, both are so beautiful in their own right! Pre-order your copy now! #KidLitUK #BookSky 📚💙

The image shows the cover of NETTLE by Bex Hogan - a girl standing in a faery realm, with a castle and two moons in the distance. She carries a cloak made of nettles. The paperback edition is coming 10th July 2025. Cover illustration by Laura El.

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Sifa E. Poulton @sifaelizabethreads.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books of 2025; Part Two sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/m...

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Most Anticipated Books of 2025; Part Two

Ten books I am very excited for the in next six months

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Mich Kenney @michkenneybooks.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

It’s here! 🥳 My tribute to every Heyer novel I ever read, and a good dose of Fairfax heroine fun too! I loved writing Sophie, Phoebe’s fashion-conscious sister, who has the most ramshackle, scandalous adventure of a lifetime across Paris… www.instagram.com/p/DJ_BbkjI2g...

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Exciting news - OWL KING is now on Netgalley! Lovely to see it's one of the most requested teen and YA titles - thanks so much to everyone who's supporting it! 🥰

A screenshot of the Most Requested Books on Netgalley, including OWL KING by Bex Hogan.

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Take a journey into the Faery Realms with NETTLE. A Midsummer Night's Dream meets Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans. Out in beautiful hardback now! 🥰

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Delighted that BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE WEATHER WITCH is a Kindle Monthly Deal through the whole of May. You can grab the ebook for only 99p, what a bargain! #KidLitUK #Kindle #BookSky 📚💙 tinyurl.com/4aeraz9y

Image of the cover of 'Bronte Tempestra and the Weather Witch' by Bex Hogan and illustrated by Hannah McCaffery. Published by Piccadilly Press.

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ed public relations @edpr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Hans Christian Andersen’s 'The Wild Swans' meets 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in #NettleBook by @bexhogan.bsky.social 🧚‍♀️ If you've not read it yet, this is your sign to✨ 📖 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #BankHolidayReads

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Lights go out, walls come tumbling down. Do they? Maybe. Maybe not. You'll have to read it. Writing a sequel is HARD, and I am so happy to announce this news! #ElectricLifeSurge.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/04/2025

If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community. And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account. goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...

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Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project

Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.

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Marieke Nijkamp @mariekeyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here. So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.

A hand holding up a stack of books in front of blurry bookshelves. The books are, from top to bottom:

THE STRANGEWORLDS TRAVEL AGENCY by LD Lapinski
VIVI CONWAY AND THE HAUNTED QUEST by Lizzie Huxley-Jones
THE OTHERWOODS by Justine Pucella Winans
SIR CALLIE AND THE WITCH'S WAR by Esme Symes-Smith
THIS IS OUR RAINBOW: 16 STORIES ABOUT HER, HIM, THEM, AND US edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby
ACCIDENTAL DEMONS by Clare Edge
A SONG FOR YOU AND I by K. O'Neill
THE OJJA-WOJJA by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

⭐️ COVER REVEAL ⭐️ I'm so excited to share the stunning cover for OWL KING illustrated by the amazing @iamlaurael.bsky.social 😍😍 Set in the same faery realms as NETTLE, it's a tale of sisters & stories, love & betrayal. Out 9th Oct 25 and available to preorder now! @zephyrbooks.bsky.social #UKKidLit

A cover for OWL KING by Bex Hogan. It is a picture of a faery climbing steps towards a mysterious door, surrounded by trees and feathers. An owl lurks in the corner. All in reds and blues.

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Zephyr Books @zephyrbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A dark, captivating, tale of deception and survival, set in the same faery world as #Nettle . Calling all fans of @bexhogan.bsky.social we have an exciting cover reveal for you! #OwlKing is coming in hardback on 9th October. We're obsessed with this stunning cover from @iamlaurael.bsky.social 😍🦉

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Lucie Ebrey @lucieebrey.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A comic about a particularly perilous World Book Day from a weeks back (Doctors are watching me now dw!) (Also shoutout to @bexhogan.bsky.social for being an absolute real one and dropping everything to help me after only knowing me for 24 hours. Buy her books!)

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Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It's publication day! 🥳🥳 So excited that BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE WEATHER WITCH is finally out in the world! Illustrated by Hannah McCaffery 🥰 Huge thank you to everyone @piccadilly-press.bsky.social especially my amazing editor, Ruth Bennett. And thanks to my agent, Davinia Andrew-Lynch 🥰🥰

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