A screenshot of a bookseller article where literary agent Gordon Wise says he suspects some editors are putting confidential manuscripts into chat GPT to get summaries rather than reading the submission

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The idea of this is horrifying.

That editors would be that careless with someone else's work is appalling. And nothing of what follows is in any way intended to excuse or mitigate the damage done to authors if this has actually happened.

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Buzz Sausage Wolf and the Smelly Cat is out on January 29th.

Congratulations to the amazing authors and illustrators of the 12 longlisted books in our 7+ Fiction category! #Spark12BooksOfChristmas 🎄🎁📚

Wahoo! Fandabidozi! Thank you, Spark! What an honour. Buzz is very excited. 🐾

Day 10, 7+ Fiction: 'Buzz Sausage Wolf' by Jim Beckett &
Aurelie Lise-Anne. A hapless sausage dog with wolfish dreams scrambles through chaos, comedy and spilled hot chocolate as he attempts to be the perfect pet. @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @jimbeckett.bsky.social
#Spark12BooksOfChristmas 🎄🎁📚

Fantastic news! 🍾

I have a very bad feeling about this...

“educationalists” all over the internet - teachers who are rewarded for neglecting their students and making themselves famous. Katharine is complex - I think there’s definitely some good in her - but her success and celebrity is damaging to UK state education. 4/4

that had employed her; she meant us, her colleagues and friends. It was bonkers. Katharine is a fascinating figure, as the Guardian article illustrates. Her shameless promotion of Singleholic, while teaching, was embarrassing. Saddest thing is her fame is a blueprint for self-promoting 3/4

and friends. This blog became the book. It was a massive betrayal. She had to leave her next school a few months later when she addressed the Tory Conference 2010, cosying up to Michael Gove. Declared that education was broken because of lefties - she meant everyone at the UK state schools 2/4

I taught at the school that Katharine traduces in To Miss With Love, (Penguin 2011 - it was on Radio 4 too). She and I worked closely together, on the school magazine for example. She left the school in 2009 when it came out that she had been secretly blogging about her colleagues 1/4

Buzz Sausage Wolf Archives Free Buzz Sausage Wolf teaching resources for KS1 & KS2, created with Hachette - creative writing, story sequencing, and vocabulary-building activities.

Great set of Buzz Sausage Wolf PRIMARY SCHOOL RESOURCES for any teachers starting to think about the new term 🤪🐾

Available free here
tpet.co.uk/downloads/ta...

A big THANK YOU to all the schools and bookshops that have hosted BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF events over the past few weeks! #kidlit #readingforpleasure #readingforfun #childrensbooks #KS1 #readingrocks #authorvisit #primaryschool #orangutan #ukulele

BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF is very excited to be in the window of Waterstones Finchley Road!🐾

Thanks, Kirsten!

Btw, my 11-year-old daughter read Fallout last month and absolutely loved it. Led to some great discussions about protests in the 80s. 🪧✊

Thank you, Lesley 🐾

I will be celebrating the release of
BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF (out now!) with events at these marvellous bookshops:

Steyning Bookshop - 26 May
Waterstones Finchley Road 02 - 27 May
Bags of Books, Lewes - 29 May Chicken and Frog, Brentwood - 7 June
Heffers, Cambridge - 29 June

and lots of schools!

One week to go!

BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF will be released ONE MONTH TODAY and he’s raring to go. If you know ANY 5-8 year olds, or have ever met one, please PRE-ORDER Buzz Sausage Wolf from your favourite bookshop today. 🐾

📣 HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 🐍

It's COVER REVEAL TIME!

I'm proud to present my new novel

🏮NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST 💥 out June 12th.

The wonderful cover art is by Simone Douglas @SimsDougie
Published by @PiccadillyPress

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book.

"I knew my grandparents had been ill, but I hadn’t expected them to explode."

-The Caravan at the Edge of Doom

My new book.
@hachettechildrens.bsky.social @hslanews.bsky.social

Happy publication day to @prleathley.bsky.social and this absolute stunner...

'The book crackles with imagination. It’s beautifully written, with broad appeal to boys and girls, and fizzes with indelible imagery...a fantastic adventure'
The Times, Children's Book of the Week

Long eared owl clapping in flight as he hunts over the buttercup fields

📸 driver.david

Many years ago when I was an editor I went to my boss and asked why we were allowing ourselves to become so reliant on Amazon...I suggested that publishers could mutually invest in a central bookselling website where orders were sent direct to relevant hubs and the amount we'd save because...