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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 28/09/2026

It's that day again. Use any and all resources available to help you through it. (And, as always, #FuckAI)

Reminder to treat your body like a data center:
1. Consume as much water and literature as possible
2. Upset the local city council with your existence

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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy National Coffee Day from the book that will have you rethinking your artisanal beans 😅

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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know I've said it a few times, but 10 Things I Hate About Zombies is my very first USA Today bestseller, and I am so very grateful for every single one of you who has supported the book. It's a small title and primarily a UK release, so for it to have done this well is absolutely wild.

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Russell Gascoigne @russgascoigne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

UK #screenwriting crisis? Discuss. Another must-read bulletin from Philip.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gutted to hear that illustrator Terry Denton has passed away. The 13 Storey Treehouse books were foundational texts for my eldest. Fun to read aloud as a parent but, crucially, the first books he chose to read for himself, and Terry's pictures were a huge help. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Terry Denton, beloved Australian illustrator best known for Treehouse series, dies aged 76

The illustrator and author ‘gave joy to millions of children around the world’, his family says

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A lovely review of our former Welsh Laureate's latest book. Eloise's stories are always worth seeking out. #KidLit #KidLitUK

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's been far too long since my last visit. Time to schedule another one, methinks.

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

While in Mousehole working on a TV project (that alas was never commissioned) I met Neil Brockman and heard the story in his own words. If this was the only thing the RNLI ever did for humanity, it would be enough to deserve our eternal respect. And they do this every day. Unpaid. For all of us.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Guys. The BBC put #DoctorWho out to tender yesterday. Production companies only have a couple of weeks to get their bids in. The Beeb are open to all formats and series lengths. So let's crowd source this thing. What should it look like when it comes back?

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Consider this a pathetic plea on my part, but all encouragement will be gratefully received.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you're looking to give the RNLI a boost, and support someone slogging their way around the Cardiff half marathon, hit the link below and help make the world that little bit better.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a gorgeous new edition of a brilliant and funny book, and you owe it to yourself to try and win a copy. #KidLit #KidLitUK

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Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Abiola Bello - author 📚 publisher and co-founder of the Diverse Book Awards. The third book in her Wild Magic series for younger readers is out 🌟 - the first book won the Sparks School Book Award @simonandschuster.bsky.social #bookseries #authorinterview #childrensbooks #diversebooks #publishing

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a gorgeous new edition of a brilliant and funny book, and you owe it to yourself to try and win a copy. #KidLit #KidLitUK

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy birthday to The X-Files! Yes, it went off the rails but it was so much fun along the way. "Humbug", "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and "Folie à Deux" remain some of my favourite episodes. Shout out your own favs here!

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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Interested in folk horror as a genre? Not seen Penda's Fen, one of its most influential tributaries? Watch tonight! (or, I imagine, on iPlayer for a while)

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The RNLI are incredible, literal heroes saving lives at sea. I'm proud to support them. Now would be a really good time to donate. (It's a double win: money for the RNLI and making a stand against fa**ist idiots!)

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#KidLitUK writers and illustrators; come and help out a good cause. I've signed up again this year.

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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Confirmed I'm allowed to talk about this, so hello, I wrote a delightful chapter book called LEGO Friends Pet Rescuers: Bunny Breakout! It features art by Marta Kissi and will be in shops on 20 October. AND it comes with an exclusive LEGO set! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827371...

the cover for LEGO Friends Pet Rescuers: Bunny Breakout, showing Nova from Lego Friends surrounded by cute bunnies! The cover is pink with bright jewel tones.

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Russell Gascoigne @russgascoigne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Should you feel like supporting a thoroughly worthy cause, my son is fundraising for the RNLI by running the Cardiff Half Marathon on Oct 4. Go on, he's a lovely lad fundraise.rnli.org/s/25611/27516 Pls RT. Thanks.

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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

my little book is inching its way up the charts! I'd love the demand indicator to turn red (my publisher will take note!) so if you've been thinking about pre-ordering or popping in a library request, you'd make my whole day!

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Chris Highwell @chrishighwellactor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One of my friends saw me on Casualty earlier. I usually play a security guard (night off maybe), but I'm a patient in this episode.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is what a real British superhero looks like. Not the hero we need, etc, etc

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Signed. If you're in Wales, please petition the Senedd to unfreeze gender affirming care.

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James Hamilton @jameshamiltonwriter.com · 02/09/2026

Spent yesterday prepping for our first class on Saturday and I am hyped! Only THREE DAYS left to sign up to my screenwriting course, and just a few spaces left. If you've been interested in signing up, now is very much the time - will take it off sale on Friday!

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Teams of publishing professionals spent months on this, and came to the conclusion that, yes, this was definitely a book they were happy to put into the world.

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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm looking at Broomsticklers interiors!!! 🧹✨ Broomsticklers is a highly illustrated early middle grade novel that publishes with Atheneum/S&S in July 2027 and features gorgeous art by Karly Jade Catto! It's available for preorder now: bookshop.org/a/975/979834... #booksky #kidlit

the cover for Broomsticklers, which is purple and shows an illustrated night-time scene split in two like a playing card - on the top half is a witching riding a broom with a cat, and on the bottom, upside down, is a human riding a lawnmower broom with a frog on her head

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I was thinking of the Serial Chillers books just the other day, and idly wondering when the next one is out. Lo and behold, it's out now! MG horror with some genuine creepy bits. #KidLit #KidLitUK

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Free Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

he bites the soap he doesn't like the soap he blames the human #Cat #Caturday

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Russell Gascoigne @russgascoigne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Vertical storytelling course via Screen Alliance Wales www.screenalliancewales.com/events/verti... #screenwriting

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Vertical Storytelling | Screen Alliance Wales

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Chris Highwell @chrishighwellactor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

To anyone in the Cardiff/Caerphilly area, Mystic Realm Creations has organised a 2-day showcase of short films, reels and networking! Watch projects like Together As One, Ashborn, Gwrach Y Rhibyn and Ghoul Grabber! Talk to the cast and crew! 27th and 28th August at the Caerphilly Workmen's Hall!

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Round The Twist is getting a repeat run next month! It's always fun to revisit it. And gosh, I wish there were more children's shows like this around today.

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Shapeless Ink @shapelessink.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finally got to touching up probably the most popular doodle I've ever done, lmao. Wonder if this would work as a bookmark?

Cartoon image of an anthropomorphic sheep holding a gun, pointing it at the viewer. She says "Get writing, bitch. Infinite worlds cry out to be born and you are to be a God."

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Are YOU going to the Edinburgh festival with kids? I can't promise to be a profound one woman show about the nature of war or a comedian who's been on taskmaster but I CAN entertain your children. Roll up, roll up to the Loki show! #Booksky #KidLitUK #Edinburgh www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/when-...

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When Chaos Comes Calling with Louie Stowell | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You can bang on about your books CONSTANTLY and I promise someone you know personally, in real life, will be like "wait, you write books?"

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Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I should really start expecting less from myself. 😂 These paintings are available btw.

Two oil paintings of calla lilies hung on a wall

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm in Cwmbran Library for a morning of author talks and workshops with @torfaenlibraries.bsky.social. It's roasting out, and the whole town is blanketed in wildfire smoke. Let's hope it doesn't put people off coming. #KidLit #KidLitUK

A meeting room, with rows of chairs set out

The best looking children's author you've ever seen, standing in front of a picture of his own big, grinning mug

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've signed up for this. Looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I just received a lovely bit of fan mail from a young reader in Virginia, which was posted MORE THAN A YEAR AGO! Not sure if the US postal system is at fault, or if it's spent a year sitting in a cupboard at my publisher's office, but that poor boy is getting a reply sharpish. #KidLit #KidLitUK

Close up of an envelope with a Virginia postmark, dated 18 July 2025.

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