Barnaby hanging out beside my newly-signed @alicecrumbs books. I met Alice at @edbookfest this weekend and had a brilliant chat about books, writing and the writing life. . More about which soon!
This was the end of the queue for Philip Pullman’s event last night — the entire way around Charlotte Square — and this was our seat for the man himself. Could listen to him talk all day, it was brilliant. . One of the best lines came from the chair, Val McDermid, on why a dog dæmon doesn’t meant you’re stuck socially as a servent, or even predestined to be one: ‘a genetic tendency towards alcoholism doesn’t mean you’re going to be an alcoholic,’ she said, ‘but you can try.’ #booksbooksbooks #edbookfest #bookfestival #authorevent #philippullman #writing
Edinburgh Book Festival 2018 — got our lanyards! #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #author #authorevent #edbookfest #books
Letter to my grandmother, then just turned nineteen, from her father. Just come across a whole cache of these — an amazing piece of family history, and so charming.
Amazing to see stuff like this: #TheSacrificeBox on @barnesandnoble’s picks for August. Love the copy! . Releases 28th August in the states, in beautiful hardcover. One of which I’ll be giving away here, and on twitter, soon! #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #YA #UKYA #horcomrom #fiction #teenfiction #horror #80s #retro
Exciting stuff in the pipeline. More details soon! #bookstagram #UKYA #writing #booksbooksbooks
#Repost @penguinteen putting #TheSacrificeBox in some great company. Looking forward to chilly autumn evenings, and the perfect conditions for a good spooky horror story... Out end of this month in the US, with that amazing cover! 🙌🏽📦🐻 ・・・ Thrills’n’chills!
‘You know what it’s like — you get in from a hard day of nursery and you just want to kick off your tiny shoes, kick back in your tiny chair, and lose yourself in a good sticker book.’