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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 23h

Bluesky, I am up for an award! You can vote for me! Please vote for me! It's for the "best children's book of the decade". Yes I realise the decade isn't over. Maybe it's counting from 2016 to 2026 or something. Vote Stowell early and vote Stowell often! nationalbooktokens.com/readers-awards

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Book Are My Bag Readers Awards

The only book awards curated by bookshops and chosen by readers like you!

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 17h

A vote for Louie is a vote for an author who made my youngest laugh so hard he got “hot eyes”, a rare, beautiful and contagious thing.

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I said something about a good detective being "miss marple on steroids" my friend coined the phrase muscle marple. So I had to draw her.

An illustration in the style of a promo poster, in black line drawing. The text reads: Forget HOT POIROT....meet.... MUSCLE MARPLE!

The illustration shows an old lady in a flowery hat with HUGE GUNS.

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Can't Spell Cadaver Without Ada @mercury01.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

here's a new bumper sticker design

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Secondhand booksellers across Europe, including in the Netherlands, are raising concerns over AI companies buying large numbers of obscure and often rare books. The alleged intent behind such shopping is to scan and destroy them for AI training."

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Rare book dealers fear tech firms are destroying obscure editions to train AI models

Secondhand booksellers across Europe, including in the Netherlands, are raising concerns over AI companies buying large numbers of obscure and often rare books. The alleged intent behind such shopping...

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gabliotecaria @gabliotecaria.northsky.social · 24/07/2026

"out in feb" she buries in brackets in this post, like I'm not LOSING MY EVERLOVING MIND waiting for this book

Coat Girl from Louie's Tales of a Bad God, in her coat, eyes huge, positively vibrating with excitement. The caption is "excited squealing noises". It me. It forever me. I wash my coat because I'm not a freak but Louie here has captured my very essence.

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Mad Auntie Kristy @auntiekristy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

WAIT. SHIT. NO. STOP. NOW I HAVE AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. Okay, I rent. So ... Could I invite a vampire into my house or would they have to go through my landlord as the legal owner to enter? THIS IS TIME SENSITIVE.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Kurt Vonnegut: In my book I drew an asshole as a cautionary tale Anthropic: At long last, we have created the Vonnegut Asshole

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

YES! My wife @karenlawler.bsky.social (history buff) often talks about the forgotten rebels - the people at the time who were pushing back against the horrors. History gets rewritten as though only modernity understands the horrors. But people knew then. They were living it!

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Since I'm getting closer to the end of the Loki series, I only have one more book of transformations ahead (have already written book six)....any requests for things to turn Loki into before the end?

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I've been thinking about this piece since I read it the other day and I think there's definitely a truth in there - that some aspects of internet culture have, lets say, reduced the collective critical faculties when it comes to reading & understanding books. But I don't think fandom is the problem.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

KITTENS ON THE PICCADILLY LINE

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 17/04/2026

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme? 3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice” Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

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Mehsi-Hime @mehsi.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

#BookReview up for Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Causing Chaos ★★★★★ stars! A really fun new book in the series featuring spells gone wrong, a mystery, and more! #BookBloggers #Blogging #ChildrensBooks #Loki #Humour #BookSky📚💙 twirlingbookprincess.com/2026/02/revi...

Pink Promo Banner for Twirling Book Princess featuring the Cover for Loki A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos by Louie Stowell featuring a yellow background with on it all sorts of doodles of various things like characters golf clubs toilet paper a squid and more

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

One of my most frequently asked questions at literary festivals is "will Loki ever get back to Asgard?" And if you want to know the answer, you need to come to one of my events. Such as Cambridge on sat 25th april at the cambridge Union: www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/louie...

A poster showing a literary festival that already happened in oxford (this morning, it was fun, thanks for asking) and more relevantly to this post one in cambridge on Saturday 25th april at 10am. Various doodles surround the text plus a pic of me.

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SinisterBulb @sinisterbulb.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Outlook, outlook, burning bright, On the laptop full of shite; What immortal corporate jerk, Will mark tomorrows ‘back to work?’ O what pointless mailed enquiry, Will fuck the free bits in my diary? On what topic will he rile me? Will he dare to add a Smiley?

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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Will David Walliams have someone else write his humble note of apology but put his name on it?

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Karen @karenlawler.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Tho i fear the moral here is that they are untouchable whilst they’re still making that much money. It’s no coincidence that he’s been dropped as his sales finally go down, not when, for instance, a member of staff complained or when an investigation determined junior women shouldn’t be alone w him.

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 19/12/2025

No-one is untouchable forever - even if it appears that they are! The stories about Walliams behaviour have been known for years archive.ph/x43gU

Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women
Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins

Investigations team
19 December 2025 3:43pm GMT
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Photograph of David Walliams holding copies of Awful Auntie and The First Hippo on the Moon

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

If you hear a rumble, it’s the sound of hundreds of people who’ve worked in publishing running to their phones to type ‘IT’S HAPPENING’ into their message groups.

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Telegravda running a story that David Walliams has been dropped by HarperCollins due to his harassment of junior employees. It's always the ones you most expect.

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Real question is, if HC paid a member of staff off, why didn’t they drop him then? Ie continue to put other young female staff in danger FOR YEARS? www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9197cdb...

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Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women

Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A cute little hook-up happening on the roof of "Molly House", 2023, by Pablo Bronstein, at @tate.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A close-up showing the two illustrated figures perched on the roof of the Molly House

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Wendy Davis @daydreamerdavis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The Loki books by @louiestowell.bsky.social are always so much fun 📚👍

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

@louiestowell.bsky.social We are now doing this thing where the first part of every car journey my son reads me a chapter of Loki, while I’m driving. Might need to rethink as I laughed so much at Loki describing crisps that I nearly drove into a roundabout.

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 28/10/2025

Hey @louiestowell.bsky.social I have colleagues on my work chat raving about your Loki books and how good they are

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Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Our eldest Little Viking at an event at Murton Park, York, last weekend - with his nose buried in a book, as usual. It was his umpteenth re-read of his prised signed copy of the latest Loki by @louiestowell.bsky.social, courtesy of www.papercatbookshop.co.uk (We posed him a bit to hide his face)

A photograph of a child in Viking-Age clothing, in a reconstructed early-medieval village, reading a rather anachronistic copy of 'Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos' by Louie Stowell. Other re-enactor parents have to try to stop their children wearing watches or trainers... oh if only our life were that simple ;)

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Liz de Jager @lizuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Hey @louiestowell.bsky.social ! We were at the Jorvik Centre yesterday & just look at Loki taking over. 🥰

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

@louiestowell.bsky.social What Would Loki Read? LOKIfesto lokibooks.com/lokifesto/

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Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

@louiestowell.bsky.social my class had personal reading time and I went out to the class library to discover a child being introduced to Loki by another classmate and has now started the 1st book on that recommendation! 🙌 This kid is going to love Loki! #UKKidLit #BookChat #EduSky #ScoEdu

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

what if i told you the everlasting (out oct. 28th) has ILLUSTRATIONS and a MAP drawn by the incredible @alicecaoillo.bsky.social ??? what then???

pen and ink art in a neo-victorian style, showing a lady knight on a bier. there's cool stuff in the border, too, like a pistol and a boy reading a book

knight kneeling before a queen, who looks like a yassified margaret thatcher

man and a woman beneath a really tight tree. there's a cute cottage in the border

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Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Absolutely 100% this. Especially point 3. as a kid growing up with undiagnosed ADHD I found comics so much easier to read. I grew up on my brothers @2000ad.bsky.social comics and my other brothers JLA and Excalibur comics. and it was the best :)

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I have a newsletter! If you'd like to keep up to date on my books, events, news, book-themed activities for kids and occasional Doctor Who and other fandom thoughts, sign up here! louiestowell.substack.com #KidLitUK

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The Louie Stowell Newsletter | Substack

News, books and nonsense. Click to read The Louie Stowell Newsletter, a Substack publication.

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Loki update: I finished my copy last night and my daughter is having hers for breakfast. Today, she took great delight in pointedly reading me the dad-joke bits. Brilliant stuff - thank you, @louiestowell.bsky.social

A view over a girl's shoulder of her breakfast reading - Louie Stowell's latest Loki book is resting on top of ignored and unfinished homework. Dry mini-weetabix are in easy reach of the girl's free hand.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

My children's books of the year so far since you didn't ask are Boss of the Underword by Tor Freeman, Donut Squad by @neillcameron.bsky.social and Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson and @dansantat.bsky.social. The latter is a picture book so those recs cover 3-12 year olds, you're welcome.

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Kit Butler (Author) @kitbutlermagster.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Upped my "Kit Virtue Score" or KVS (see what I did there 😏) with a 5am rise, starting with reading. This week has been LOKI 5 by @louiestowell.bsky.social Another top addition to this phenomenal series, so not much to say, except "Well done, Louie, I wish I had your royalties!" Totally brill!👏

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Hurray! Our copies have arrived! Just in time: we finished Otherland this morning - A9 was on tenterhooks right to the end, it's an excellent addition to our bookshelves - thank you, @louiestowell.bsky.social

Louie Stowell's "Loki: a Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos"

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Halfway up the Stairs @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Thanks so much @louiestowell.bsky.social for visiting us this rainy Friday afternoon! We now have lots of signed copies of Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Causing Chaos in stock, with a cool Loki keyring with each purchase! halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9781... @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence

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