Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year!

drawing a map before 9am, hashtag fantasy author life

Imagine our joy on discovering you can rename things in Sunderfolk

not quite yet, I suspect - things have been signed but nothing has been announced yet 👀

just need to remember how you, uh, write books again...

hehe, you might have a little wait yet! 😊

Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87 Working first with his wife Janet, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more than 150 books

Oh this is sad. Each Peach Pear Plum still brings me enormous joy - when I worked in a bookshop I'd pause to reread it all the time www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Right, the sequel to The Sleepless is back off to lovely editor - so new month, time to start a new book!

how to instantly make yourself incredibly unpopular

girl, we want to go HOME

pet 😭😭😭

got a new phone, transferring data, now regretting my 'never delete a photo ever' life style

I did!! My little homage to him 😁

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Inner cover of The Sleepless by Jen Williams. In purple, a map of the fantasy land where it's set. Including pictures of dragons!

You don't know how much joy this gives me. All fantasy books should include maps, whether they are continents or cities or anything! @sennydreadful.bsky.social

ahhh yes, it is such a beautiful thing! The artist did an amazing job. Here, for larks, is the original sketch I did 😁

a woman wearing a hat and a white tank top has the word rage on her chest ALT: a woman wearing a hat and a white tank top has the word rage on her chest

Morning, creatures of the bluesky lagoon. We have a late night/early morning situation here so progress today will be slow.

aaaah I am wel jel!

my pen of choice in secondary school!

ah Cult Pens have really come for me with the latest newsletter. The terrible, irresistible urge to own a Berol handwriting pen again and pretend I'm in primary school, or a Pilot V5...

draw a fish and rate a fish!!

I just verified my age by watching a VHS tape of old Bugs Bunny cartoons my dad taped off the telly for me

it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught

true, very rude of me. Good luck building that football team.

mash hands against keyboard, hope for the best

my greatest achievement

always happy to see Rylan!

do not, I repeat, do not trust this method

it's never happened before, and will never happen again

just wanted to make everyone aware, I just spelt 'rhythm' correctly on the first attempt.

Sculpture of Kathleen Ryan: Thousands of Gemstones + Decaying Fruit Kathleen Ryan captures the surprising beauty of decaying fruit by pinning thousands of individual minerals, gemstones and glass beads.

This is a great article with many photos of Kathleen Ryan's spectacular rotting-fruit sculptures. I think when i first found out about her, i spent most of a whole day looking up her work