Maleeha Mir
@mmir08.bsky.social
🚨Creative Freelancer | 📝 Creative | ✍🏽 Book Reviewer | 😉Nerd |✨ Works in Publishing | 📖 2023 Shorlist Judge The Diverse Book Awards | 🌎 2020 Deputy Chair of SYP London
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A list of annual children's & YA book festivals and events for schools, teachers and parents to look out for. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/competitions... #kidlit #ukedchat
Children's Book Festivals and Events
Children's book festivals - our calendar of events running annually in the UK which schools and individuals can take part in.
schoolreadinglist.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
A list of annual children's & YA book festivals and events for schools, teachers and parents to look out for. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/competitions... #kidlit #ukedchat
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Book launch @Bookhaus. ‘Writing is so much more than entertainment,’ Sabrin Hasbun says.
‘Fiction stays with you,’ Sunny Singh agrees. ‘It has the power to change how you think…it’s a powerful tool of decolonisation.’
‘Fiction stays with you,’ Sunny Singh agrees. ‘It has the power to change how you think…it’s a powerful tool of decolonisation.’
August 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Book launch @Bookhaus. ‘Writing is so much more than entertainment,’ Sabrin Hasbun says.
‘Fiction stays with you,’ Sunny Singh agrees. ‘It has the power to change how you think…it’s a powerful tool of decolonisation.’
‘Fiction stays with you,’ Sunny Singh agrees. ‘It has the power to change how you think…it’s a powerful tool of decolonisation.’
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ICYMI: Bernardine Evaristo ( @bernardineevaristo.bsky.social ) has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Prize For Fiction 👇 #BookSky
Bernardine Evaristo receives Outstanding Contribution Award to mark 30th anniversary of Women's Prize for Fiction
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June 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
ICYMI: Bernardine Evaristo ( @bernardineevaristo.bsky.social ) has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Prize For Fiction 👇 #BookSky
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Concluding the epic Norse-myth inspired #romantasy which began with A Fate Inked in Blood, Danielle Jensen's brand new A Curse Carved in Bone is out today!
💙📚🪐
#newbooks
💙📚🪐
#newbooks
May 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Concluding the epic Norse-myth inspired #romantasy which began with A Fate Inked in Blood, Danielle Jensen's brand new A Curse Carved in Bone is out today!
💙📚🪐
#newbooks
💙📚🪐
#newbooks
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We have a brilliant #GIVEAWAY! ✨
#WIN a copy of PRETTY LITTLE THING by Kit Duffield in our #giveaway to showcase this fantastic book!
To enter:
📚Follow @bytethebook.bsky.social
📚RT this Tweet
📚Comment below #ByteTheBookGiveaway
Ends 23.59 on 31 May 2025,
UK ONLY
#WIN a copy of PRETTY LITTLE THING by Kit Duffield in our #giveaway to showcase this fantastic book!
To enter:
📚Follow @bytethebook.bsky.social
📚RT this Tweet
📚Comment below #ByteTheBookGiveaway
Ends 23.59 on 31 May 2025,
UK ONLY
May 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
We have a brilliant #GIVEAWAY! ✨
#WIN a copy of PRETTY LITTLE THING by Kit Duffield in our #giveaway to showcase this fantastic book!
To enter:
📚Follow @bytethebook.bsky.social
📚RT this Tweet
📚Comment below #ByteTheBookGiveaway
Ends 23.59 on 31 May 2025,
UK ONLY
#WIN a copy of PRETTY LITTLE THING by Kit Duffield in our #giveaway to showcase this fantastic book!
To enter:
📚Follow @bytethebook.bsky.social
📚RT this Tweet
📚Comment below #ByteTheBookGiveaway
Ends 23.59 on 31 May 2025,
UK ONLY
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News! SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social to Publish UK Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social and Breakout Artist Abbigayle Bircham’s Graphic Novel ‘My Dad Fights Demons!’
www.brokenfrontier.com/my-dad-fight...
www.brokenfrontier.com/my-dad-fight...
SelfMadeHero to Publish UK Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph and Breakout Artist Abbigayle Bircham's Graphic Novel 'My Dad Fights Demons!' – Broken Frontier
'My Dad Fights Demons!' is a new Young Adult graphic novel coming from SelfMadeHero, Bobby Joseph and Abbigayle Bircham.
www.brokenfrontier.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
News! SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social to Publish UK Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social and Breakout Artist Abbigayle Bircham’s Graphic Novel ‘My Dad Fights Demons!’
www.brokenfrontier.com/my-dad-fight...
www.brokenfrontier.com/my-dad-fight...
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What a night! Thank you to everyone who joined us in the room & beyond ✨
Share your celebrations with us with #BritishBookAwards & #Nibbies
Share your celebrations with us with #BritishBookAwards & #Nibbies
May 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
What a night! Thank you to everyone who joined us in the room & beyond ✨
Share your celebrations with us with #BritishBookAwards & #Nibbies
Share your celebrations with us with #BritishBookAwards & #Nibbies
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ICYMI: I’ve had messages from writers saying they have no idea how many books they have sold, that they aren’t sure whether they should email their editor, that they don’t know whether they can query editorial notes, says Phoebe Morgan 👇 #BookSky
Pulling back the curtain
www.thebookseller.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
ICYMI: I’ve had messages from writers saying they have no idea how many books they have sold, that they aren’t sure whether they should email their editor, that they don’t know whether they can query editorial notes, says Phoebe Morgan 👇 #BookSky
Had an absolute blast at the #Nibbies last night! Great to cheer on the winners & hear the brilliant speeches - it was such a pleasure to be there with so many of my publishing friends & colleagues to celebrate!! 🎉
#BritishBookAwards #BookSky @thebookseller.com
#BritishBookAwards #BookSky @thebookseller.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Had an absolute blast at the #Nibbies last night! Great to cheer on the winners & hear the brilliant speeches - it was such a pleasure to be there with so many of my publishing friends & colleagues to celebrate!! 🎉
#BritishBookAwards #BookSky @thebookseller.com
#BritishBookAwards #BookSky @thebookseller.com
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My feeling whenever I see people talking about using ChatGPT and having it ‘write’ their books and ‘make’ their ‘art’:
May 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My feeling whenever I see people talking about using ChatGPT and having it ‘write’ their books and ‘make’ their ‘art’:
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The Picture This! competition is open for entries in the UK!
We're looking for outstanding up-and-coming illustrators able to tell a story in just three illustrations. 🖌️
Entries close on 31st May 2025.
Enter here: wwpbic.com/uk/
T&Cs here: wwpbic.com/terms-and-co...
We're looking for outstanding up-and-coming illustrators able to tell a story in just three illustrations. 🖌️
Entries close on 31st May 2025.
Enter here: wwpbic.com/uk/
T&Cs here: wwpbic.com/terms-and-co...
April 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Picture This! competition is open for entries in the UK!
We're looking for outstanding up-and-coming illustrators able to tell a story in just three illustrations. 🖌️
Entries close on 31st May 2025.
Enter here: wwpbic.com/uk/
T&Cs here: wwpbic.com/terms-and-co...
We're looking for outstanding up-and-coming illustrators able to tell a story in just three illustrations. 🖌️
Entries close on 31st May 2025.
Enter here: wwpbic.com/uk/
T&Cs here: wwpbic.com/terms-and-co...
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A Song of Legends Lost is an exciting new high fantasy debut from @mhayinde.bsky.social - epic complex worldbuilding, monsters and spirits, ancestral magic, and a sweeping and breathtaking plot.
A promising start to a new series!
Out now in hardback
💙📚🪐
#SFFbooks
#NewBooks
A promising start to a new series!
Out now in hardback
💙📚🪐
#SFFbooks
#NewBooks
April 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A Song of Legends Lost is an exciting new high fantasy debut from @mhayinde.bsky.social - epic complex worldbuilding, monsters and spirits, ancestral magic, and a sweeping and breathtaking plot.
A promising start to a new series!
Out now in hardback
💙📚🪐
#SFFbooks
#NewBooks
A promising start to a new series!
Out now in hardback
💙📚🪐
#SFFbooks
#NewBooks
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@roannelau.bsky.social writes an insightful guest post for Women in SF&F Month in Fantasy Cafe! She shares more about her debut novel, Serpent Called Mercy, in her essay “Crayon Trails: On Friendship, Grief, and an Unlikely Book Deal”
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April 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@roannelau.bsky.social writes an insightful guest post for Women in SF&F Month in Fantasy Cafe! She shares more about her debut novel, Serpent Called Mercy, in her essay “Crayon Trails: On Friendship, Grief, and an Unlikely Book Deal”
buff.ly/gWlra50
buff.ly/gWlra50
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Unfortunately my nervous system can’t tell the difference between being held at gun point and being asked what a book I absolutely loved is about
March 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Unfortunately my nervous system can’t tell the difference between being held at gun point and being asked what a book I absolutely loved is about
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The book industry is a welcoming place to many but there is work to be done and threats to face, says Philip Jones
Philip Jones | 'From big tech stealing our work to the right’s reframing of free speech, the book industry is under attack.'
www.thebookseller.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The book industry is a welcoming place to many but there is work to be done and threats to face, says Philip Jones
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Please join us to celebrate the launch of our new summer title - Sun Horse, Moon Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff - at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Summertown Branch in Oxford on June 10th. Tickets can be booked here: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/lucy-scholes-tiffany-francis-baker/ #booksky #booklaunch
April 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Please join us to celebrate the launch of our new summer title - Sun Horse, Moon Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff - at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Summertown Branch in Oxford on June 10th. Tickets can be booked here: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/lucy-scholes-tiffany-francis-baker/ #booksky #booklaunch
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From Magpie Books comes the 2nd book in the Sacred Bone series. The Witch of Wol Sin Lake by Lena Jeong, the sequel to And Break the Pretty Kings, crown princess Mirae continues to unravel her tangled future to save her queendom. #BFSReview britishfantasysociety.org/review/the-w...
March 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
From Magpie Books comes the 2nd book in the Sacred Bone series. The Witch of Wol Sin Lake by Lena Jeong, the sequel to And Break the Pretty Kings, crown princess Mirae continues to unravel her tangled future to save her queendom. #BFSReview britishfantasysociety.org/review/the-w...
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Authors, if you'd like to receive a monthly newsletter with the latest links, podcasts and posts about book marketing, writing craft and industry news (that impacts authors) then I'd love you to sign up to my free newsletter #booksky theempoweredauthor.com/free-newslet...
Free newsletter — The Empowered Author
Sign up to the free Empowered Author newsletter for book marketing, publicity and creative tips, insights and advice.
theempoweredauthor.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Authors, if you'd like to receive a monthly newsletter with the latest links, podcasts and posts about book marketing, writing craft and industry news (that impacts authors) then I'd love you to sign up to my free newsletter #booksky theempoweredauthor.com/free-newslet...
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Due to the popularity of this event, we have increased the ticket allocation.
Grab yours before they're all gone: tinyurl.com/bfsworld
Grab yours before they're all gone: tinyurl.com/bfsworld
March 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Due to the popularity of this event, we have increased the ticket allocation.
Grab yours before they're all gone: tinyurl.com/bfsworld
Grab yours before they're all gone: tinyurl.com/bfsworld
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🚨 EVENT ALERT 🚨
Join us on April 1st at 1pm for an online event with literary agent Anna Pallai and author John Grindrod as they share insights on:
✅ What agents look for in non-fiction
✅ When to pitch your book
✅ How to write a great submission
bytethebook.com/event/real-d...
Join us on April 1st at 1pm for an online event with literary agent Anna Pallai and author John Grindrod as they share insights on:
✅ What agents look for in non-fiction
✅ When to pitch your book
✅ How to write a great submission
bytethebook.com/event/real-d...
Real Deal: Ideas to help you Pitch your Non-Fiction - Byte The Book
If you want your non-fiction book to be traditionally published, at some point you will need to pitch it to an agent. But, what is the best way to do that? What do agents look for in non-fiction? At w...
bytethebook.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 EVENT ALERT 🚨
Join us on April 1st at 1pm for an online event with literary agent Anna Pallai and author John Grindrod as they share insights on:
✅ What agents look for in non-fiction
✅ When to pitch your book
✅ How to write a great submission
bytethebook.com/event/real-d...
Join us on April 1st at 1pm for an online event with literary agent Anna Pallai and author John Grindrod as they share insights on:
✅ What agents look for in non-fiction
✅ When to pitch your book
✅ How to write a great submission
bytethebook.com/event/real-d...
Absolutely blown away by the Jhalak Prize 2025 longlist! Huge congratulations to this incredible list of books & authors on the list 🤩📚🎉
#JhalakPrize25 #JhalakPrize #JhalakPrize2025 #Booksky #BooksWorthReading
#JhalakPrize25 #JhalakPrize #JhalakPrize2025 #Booksky #BooksWorthReading
March 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Absolutely blown away by the Jhalak Prize 2025 longlist! Huge congratulations to this incredible list of books & authors on the list 🤩📚🎉
#JhalakPrize25 #JhalakPrize #JhalakPrize2025 #Booksky #BooksWorthReading
#JhalakPrize25 #JhalakPrize #JhalakPrize2025 #Booksky #BooksWorthReading
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We've got all this going on for BFS Online: Worldbuilding.
Saturday 5th April 2025, 10am to 6pm (BST).
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsworld
BFS member: free. Non-member: £5.
#BritishFantasySociety #FantasyBooks #HorrorBooks #SFFBooks #AuthorTalk #WritingCommunity #Worldbuilding #BookSky
Saturday 5th April 2025, 10am to 6pm (BST).
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsworld
BFS member: free. Non-member: £5.
#BritishFantasySociety #FantasyBooks #HorrorBooks #SFFBooks #AuthorTalk #WritingCommunity #Worldbuilding #BookSky
March 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
We've got all this going on for BFS Online: Worldbuilding.
Saturday 5th April 2025, 10am to 6pm (BST).
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsworld
BFS member: free. Non-member: £5.
#BritishFantasySociety #FantasyBooks #HorrorBooks #SFFBooks #AuthorTalk #WritingCommunity #Worldbuilding #BookSky
Saturday 5th April 2025, 10am to 6pm (BST).
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsworld
BFS member: free. Non-member: £5.
#BritishFantasySociety #FantasyBooks #HorrorBooks #SFFBooks #AuthorTalk #WritingCommunity #Worldbuilding #BookSky
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Innnteresting! www.thebookseller.com/rights/schol... Paging @karriefransman.bsky.social @markbradley.bsky.social tho you've prob both seen!
Scholastic brings graphic novel imprint Graphix to UK shores
Scholastic is bringing its graphic novel imprint Graphix to the UK following success in the US.
www.thebookseller.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Innnteresting! www.thebookseller.com/rights/schol... Paging @karriefransman.bsky.social @markbradley.bsky.social tho you've prob both seen!
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Out now! #BfK271 March issue. Authorgraph interview Jenny McLachlan, Windows into Illustration Greg Stobbs, new Beyond the Secret Garden @darrenchetty.bsky.social, new Picture This @nicolettejones.bsky.social, extra interviews, features, comment & reviews #KidLit
booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...
booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...
March 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Out now! #BfK271 March issue. Authorgraph interview Jenny McLachlan, Windows into Illustration Greg Stobbs, new Beyond the Secret Garden @darrenchetty.bsky.social, new Picture This @nicolettejones.bsky.social, extra interviews, features, comment & reviews #KidLit
booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...
booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...
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March 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM