P.G. Bell

This! I've been travelling for work these past 10 days, and I've given up trying to find locations on the Met Office app. I've switched to the BBC Weather website. Much easier.

Yikes! And I'm glad that we've finally hit double figures here. It's a balmy 12 degrees Celsius in London today.

Thanks all who bought my ebooks on Kindle during the World Book Day week offer. It means a lot, and I really hope you enjoy them 😊

The offer (99p/99c each) ends tonight, and it’d be great if you fancy giving them a go.

Many thanks! Pls share 😊

Ian x

#books #kindle #childrensbooks #worldbookday

Welcome to middle age. And happy birthday!

Story-building sessions for reluctant (and not so reluctant) young writers.

Cheers! Just waiting for the coffee to kick in.

Cardiff Central station at dawn.

Bristol bound for another day of workshops with young writers.

That looks fantastic.

Grrr indeed.

two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room Alt: two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room

Woot woot woot!

I think I know exactly which graphic you're talking about. And it's not their first offence.

I'm exhausted! But very happy.

A school hall with desks and chairs, and the brilliant Usborne Community Partner, Colleen.

A view along the river in Reading at dawn.

Today, I've been in Tadley Community Primary School with the brilliant Colleen from Usborne Community Partners. Such a fun and welcoming school, celebrating its 150th birthday this year. Great kids, in great costumes, telling great stories. A real carnival atmosphere. #KidLit #KidLitUK

The entrance to Grange Park Primary School. The sign features a stylised line drawing of a prancing stag.

Author P.G. Bell, who could definitely take Michael Morpurgo in a fight, posing with two young female readers in the school library. One girl looks happy to be there, the other looks like she's being held hostage. She's also being made to hold a cardboard standee advertising P.G. Bell's book, The Beanstalk Murder, in a totally naturalistic fashion. It was definitely her own idea. Yup.

I had an amazing three days visiting schools in Enfield, with back-to-back author talks and story-building workshops. Met hundreds of super enthusiastic and imaginative kids, who really threw themselves into it. Happy World Book Day! #KidLit #KidLitUK

You was robbed on the writing front, but congratulations on the wins!

Happy book birthday! 🎉🎂

A copy of The Unfinished Business, showing a night-time cityscape with glowing windows. A girl stares out of one window at three ghosts floating overhead. Next to a copy of the book is a wind-up ghost.

We have ghosts!! The Unfinished Business is now in shops, libraries, or wherever else you get your books today!

Happy reading, friends!

www.amazon.com/dp/1646036751
bookshop.org/a/975/978164...

Sickening. This is a betrayal of every screenwriter, playwright, poet and novelist in the UK. We’ve had copyright laws since around 1710 and they intend to upend all of that to help feed billionaire tech companies. 😡

#ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky #WritingCommunity

Good luck!

Thanks. Me too.

I emailed my (Labour) MP, @annamcmorrin.bsky.social about this last year, got no reply, and she's consistently voted to let international tech companies steal my work for their own profit. Now the government seems willing to ignore the results of its own consultation.

This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.

I'm really enjoying it so far!

A view from a window overlooking a multi-storey carpark. It's dawn, with a blue sky and whisps of gold and white cloud.

I'm touring schools for World Book Day all this week, and the first stop is Enfield. So here, as is tradition, is the view from a travelling author's hotel window. #KidLit #KidLitUK

Morning, Stephen. I'm touring schools for World Book Day all week, and I'm reading Four Weddings and a Funeral Director by @stephcampisi.bsky.social. I promised myself I'd read more widely this year, and I've never tried a romcom!

Rewatching '90s Trek in recent years, it struck me that they're (mostly) soap operas in space. They're not epic adventure quests. Even DS9, for all its serialisation, is a soap opera set during a war.

This where being a Doctor Who fan has come in handy over the years. Continuity is great until it gets in the way, at which point you simply ignore it.

A copy of The Unfinished Business on a rusted surface. The book is a softcover (although there's a hardcover available!) and shows a night-time cityscape with glowing windows. A girl looks out a top-storey window at three ghosts floating overhead. In the background is a wind-up ghost with "boo!" written on its belly.

Me again, talking about my ghostly middle grade novel The Unfinished Business. It's out in two weeks, and it would mean a lot if you wanted to help spread the word!

Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/975/978164...
Zon: www.amazon.com/dp/1646036751

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