@sarahmerrett1.bsky.social
Children's writer. A Place of a Thousand Wishes and The Others published by Everything With Words. Instagram: sarahmerrett1 X:sjmerrett1 https://linktr.ee/sarahmerrett
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Amazing news! Congratulations!
Absolutely thrilled that Black Gables has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing.
Huge thanks to all the librarians and readers @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
Special thanks to @everywithwords.bsky.social and Silvia @pfd
Congrats to all the nominees!
#Carnegies2026
Thrilled to bits see my book nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration. Congratulations to the hugely talented illustrator Ewa Beniak-Haremska. So well deserved. @everywithwords.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #carnegies2026
Awesome to see Black Gables @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social and The World between the Rain @susancahill.bsky.social nominated for writing and Ewa Beniak-Haremska nominated for her stunning illustrations of A Place of a Thousand Wishes @sarahmerrett1.bsky.social
"Creepy, compelling YA folk horror"🩸
Huge thanks to @imogenrw.bsky.social for including #THIRST in the @theguardian.com's roundup of the best new books for children and teens. 🙏 This is a cracking start to the weekend. I'll be celebrating tonight with Maimsbury's finest cider.
Thank you to Peters, specialist supplier of children's books, for making The Feathered Book a recommended read and for the lovely review!
“A wonderful debut with excellent writing"
peters.co.uk
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Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!
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It's alive! Join twins Indigo and Rusty on their second terrifying adventure. Thank you to everyone who has made these stories possible. Special mention to Usborne, @linalanglee.bsky.social @northlitagency.bsky.social and to Miriam Serafin
Delighted to be one of The New Statesman’s best children’s books for summer 2025 with my historical MG adventure about a luckless ice cream seller who meets a wish-maker at his magical manor house. @everywithwords.bsky.social #MG #kidlit #kidlituk #kidlit #ReadingForPleasure #booksky #childrensbooks
Latest on Good Night To Read- goodnighttoread.wordpress.com Illustrator Spotlight & Preview- Delighted to be part of the blog tour for this imaginative book @charlienutbrown.bsky.social @everywithwords.bsky.social with wonderful illustrations by #EwaBeniakHaremska #ukkidlit #librarians
More of Ewa Beniak-Haremska's extraordinary illustrations from The Feathered Book – published 11 Sep by @everywithwords.bsky.social
Entries for @uvcompetition.bsky.social close one week today!
Winners will be published in the #UV26 anthology and introduced to agents and editors at the exclusive launch party.
Don't miss this incredible chance to launch your #kidlit career🚀
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I've been so, so lucky to have the incredible Ewa Beniak-Haremska do the illustrations for The Feathered Book – they're exactly how I'd always imagined them, yet somehow even better.
Published September 11 by @everywithwords.bsky.social
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Fox detectives, otter pirates, and raven alchemists. Labyrinths, libraries, and lakes. Booby traps, boat chases, and impossible crimes … The Feathered Book, published 11 September by @everywithwords.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlituk #UKKidlit #booksky #childrensbooks #BooksForKids #ChildrensNovels
Wonderful to see A Place of a Thousand Wishes @sarahmerrett1.bsky.social as a Summer Pick, 'A delicious Fantasy adventure' @newstatesman.com Thanks @amandacraig.bsky.social
#KidLit #Fantasy
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** One month to go** to get your entries into Undiscovered Voices - the best competition around for unpublished, unagented kidlit and YA writers (okay, we might be slightly biased...)
We can't wait to read your manuscripts 👀
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Holy moly, my author copies of #THIRST have arrived! 🤩 So here's a giddy #unboxing vid. This book is sublime in the flesh. Thanks to @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social for making it real - I'm over the moon with how it's turned out. ♥️ Available for pre-order from pushkinpress.com/book/thirst/
Just 3 weeks till Maisie vs Antarctica gets a friend!
🩵 Maisie vs the Himalayas 🩵 out on 14th August. ⛰️🥳
#maisievsantarctica #mgadventures #middlegradebooks #booksforkids #childrensbooks #kidslit ##readingforpleasure #kidsbooks
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Today is World Ice Cream Day, the perfect day to check out my new MG adventure set in 1899. Mason and Pa make the world’s best ice cream, but the heatwave and a sinister stranger are about to ruin everything. Can a famous wish-maker solve their problems? @everywithwords.bsky.social
Monty the Fox is determined to become a detective and solve the mystery of The Feathered Book. Out September, @everywithwords.bsky.social. Illustrations by the incredible Ewa Beniak-Haremska.
#kidlit #kidlituk #UKKidlit #booksky #childrensbooks
🎉Happy SCARLETT BUCKLING AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING PICTURES publication day to @marioambrosi.bsky.social - out today with @tinytreebooks.bsky.social!
12yo Scarlett Buckling loves a detective story, but when her beloved Gran goes missing in the night, she faces a real-life case like no other...
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A Place of a Thousand Wishes has been out for a few weeks and I’ve been blown away by the reviews so far. Thank you to everyone who has read and reviewed. Here are just a few snippets.
@everywithwords.bsky.social #MG #kidlit #kidlituk #UKKidlit #booksky #childrensbooks
I will take every opportunity to promote #TheOthers Sarah, it is an utterly fantastic book and needs to be in every school library collection 🔭🛸📘
Thank you, Veronica. That means a lot to me 😘🥰
Great thread of recommendations 😍 I would add #TheOthers by @sarahmerrett1.bsky.social published by @everywithwords.bsky.social & #BestOfAllWorlds by #KennethOppel published by @guppybooks.bsky.social
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Thank you so much, Veronica. You've made my day😊💙