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Pip Murphy
@pipmurphy.bsky.social
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Aspiring children’s writer, maker of cute language learning comics, curry lover and red panda fan. 🏳️‍🌈
Lived in Japan for 10+ years, now dreaming of living in the same country as my wife.
Hobbies include drawing, hiking, video games, BJD and Lego.
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The 8th Annual Reflecting Realities Report is out now, showing progress in ethnic representation in children’s books and urging publishers to keep inclusion as a standard practice. https://clpe.org.uk/research/clpe-reflecting-realities-survey-ethnic-representation-within-uk-childrens-literature-3
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Assassins Want to Learn English, Too / 暗殺者も英語を習いたい
LESSON 1: Noodle harassment / ヌーハラ

#awtlet #暗殺者も英語を習いたい #森血夏 #chinatsumori
A city at night. A lone assassin waits on a rooftop. Noodles are slurped. 夜の街。 屋上で待ち構える一人の暗殺者。 麺はすすられる。 But this is no mere noodle harassment. Chinatsu Mori, assassin extraordinaire, uses the sound of the slurping to judge distance and potential obstacles. これはヌーハラということではない。 森血夏は、スルスルという音で、距離や障害物の有無を聞き分けることができる優れた暗殺者だ。 Similarly, the antennae-like hair she has she uses to judge wind strength and direction. さらに、アンテナのような髪で風の強さや方向を把握する。 Chinatsu is fully prepared for everything. Except English. 血夏は何事にも万全の態勢で臨んでいる。 ただし英語以外は。
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Just finished writing chapter 18…and chapter 21. 👀

Chapters 19 and 20 are sitting there looking at me and wondering what happened to the rest of their words…

Does anyone else do this??
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Here’s a (free!) spooky short story I wrote, if anyone’s feeling like a period chill this evening…

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October 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I spent half an hour researching travel connections (bus -> ferry -> bus) before realising that the timings won't work for the plot so the characters have to go by magical rowing boat instead. Ah well!
October 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Ooh, look what I spotted in the latest Sweet Cherry Publishing Limited catalogue! It looks like the next two Christie and Agatha books will be published in July and September next year. It’s still a while away but I’m already excited for their return. 😁📚🔍

#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #ChristieandAgatha
October 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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With the IBC Excluded Voices report making for sober reading this week, let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate brilliant books from global majority writers.
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

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Book cover for Spirit Warriors by Ashley Thorpe Book cover for Nush and the Stolen Emerald by Jasbinder Bilan Book cover for Nate Yu’s Blast from the Past by Maisie Chan Book cover for Birdie by J. P. Rose
October 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Today is #Take10ToRead day, a reminder that taking even 10 minutes a day to relax through reading can really raise your mood and decrease your stress.

My favourite places to read are on the train, in bed and when I’m eating by myself. You can maybe guess where my reading time today is taking place!
A pink-blond haired lady in pyjamas reading a book with a mainly blue-coloured cover by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
October 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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This is my Lokifesto #KidsConf #UKkidlit #edusky lokibooks.com/lokifesto/
A poster of a manifesto about reading, by Loki, with 6 points on reading "bad" books, short books, comics, audioooks, webcomics and fanfic, plus not finishing bad books cos life is too short.
September 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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When I was little I had a kitten-sized cat called Treacle who wanted to do everything with me. Her favourite thing was to sit on my shoulders as I walked around and did things. Perfect pirate kitty.
A brown-haired girl in a blue school uniform with a black cat sitting on her shoulders. The cat has a white bib and yellow-green eyes.
August 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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To celebrate Christie and Agatha's adventures being translated into 10 languages (not including English!), I've made a little blog post showcasing the covers of some of the translated overseas editions of the Christie and Agatha series. 🔍📚
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A Discovery Disappears covers in German, Polish and Arabic
August 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Not sold on this new Duolingo system! Now even if you don’t make mistakes you can barely do any lessons. 🥲
August 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I drew on a rock. To make it look more like a rock. Success??

(First attempt! Present for aunt and uncle)

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#rockart #poscapen #ladybird
August 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Thank you to all the lovely people who visited my stall at my first U.K. con! I had a wonderful time. 🥳
(And thank you for the balloon dog and rubber ducky pressies!)
Pink haired lady sitting behind a convention table containing comics, stickers, etc. Yellow balloon dog and small rubber duck
August 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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A carpet of new books, ready to go onto year 3 bookshelves in September. I had to scrape together every possible voucher and had a lot of fun browsing but think it’s a pretty good haul. Hope they like them! #KidLitUK #UKKidLit
Stacks of books ready for the year 3 book shelves in September.
July 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Ring of Brodgar watercolour sketch done in situ (with help from kind passing doggo). Very lucky with the weather!

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Ring of Brodgar - Neolithic standing stone circle, Orkney
Pigma Micron fineliners and Van Gogh watercolours
18th July 2025
#ringofbrodgar #orkneyislands #neolithic
Pen and watercolour sketch of standing stones at the Ring of Brodgar on a fine day. Pen and watercolour sketch of standing stones at the Ring of Brodgar on a fine day with a black and white dog in the background. Pen and watercolour sketch of standing stones at the Ring of Brodgar on a fine day with the actual scene in the background. Black and white dog with pink haired lady in a multicoloured hoodie sitting on the grass on a fine day with a blue sky.
July 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Thank you so much to the Orcadian bookshop for such a wonderful book signing event. I had a lovely time meeting fans (including a budding mystery writer with a notebook full of questions for me), listening to people tell me about themselves and their families - and of course signing books!
#KidLitUK
A pink haired lady with a yellow flower in her hair sitting behind a table full of Christie and Agatha Detective Agency books with a banner reading “The Orcadian Bookshop”.
July 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Ooh, is this a poster I spy for a book signing event next Saturday? How exciting! 👀😁🎉

Thank you to the fab Orcadian Bookshop for the event and beautiful sign. 🥰

#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #ChristieandAgatha
A pink haired lady pointing at a yellow poster for an Author Signing with Pip Murphy
July 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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My first time seeing my books in a newspaper! I’m bouncing around like an overexcited puppy (pippy?) right now! Thank you so much to the (Peedie) Orcadian for featuring Christie and Agatha’s Detective Agency: The Composer Crisis!
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit
A section from the (Peedie) Orcadian newspaper featuring Christie and Agatha’s Detective Agency: The Composer Crisis as the Book of the Month, explaining the premise and recommending it as an ideal precursor to the Famous Five or Murder Most Unladylike. A section from the (Peedie) Orcadian newspaper featuring Christie and Agatha’s Detective Agency: The Composer Crisis as the Book of the Month, explaining the premise and recommending it as an ideal precursor to the Famous Five or Murder Most Unladylike.
July 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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ヤバい～
#danganronpa #ダンガンロンパ #レインコード #RAINCODE
The protagonists from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Raincode are sold meat buns with special butter by Junko Enoshima and remark on how kind she is.
July 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This is 40! And to celebrate my continuing existence, I'd like to offer ten free query edits to anyone planning to dive into the trenches. RT and like to enter, and I'll pick ten people tomorrow. Tell your friends!
(and yes, my impersonations of art are unrivaled)
A white person with blonde curly hair and round glasses, wearing a dark leather jacket, standing in front of a pastel-coloured John Bellany drawing of a suspicious-eyed bearded man in a large trenchcoat
July 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Looking forward to visiting Orkney next month. It’s a bit expensive to get to but so worth it if you can. 🥰 (plus good inspiration for writing!)
hazelmpinner.bsky.social Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social · Jun 30
But lovely #UKKidLit authors- you'd always be welcome 😉🤩 ...now if only I had the budget to bring you here!
June 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Found some Sonic drawings I did back when my age was in single digits. I’d still go for this tamagotchi now, to be honest.
#sonicthehedgehog #sonic
June 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The 2025 I Am Writing Shortlists are now live on our website! Huge congrats to all brave entrants - you’ll never know how close you were to making the list. Please keep going. To those who see their title, a big well done from us both! (Keep your name unattached to the title when reposting!) #writer
June 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM