Thanks for having me, John O'Groats Book Festival!
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You know what authors value more than anything else?
REVIEWS.
Just posted reviews for the last three books I read: Firebloom by Justin Davies @discoverkelpies.bsky.social , Linnet and the Periwinkle Flyer @lindsaylittleson.bsky.social and The Last Bard @mazevansauthor.bsky.social .
All fab, btw!
12.10.2025 20:59 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
ππ The To War With Wallace book tour wraps up at lindasbookbag.com
Donβt miss their review of this exciting historical adventure. Thank you for joining us on this journey!
#ToWarWithWallace #BookTour #KidsLit @scattyscribbler.bsky.social @lindasbookbag.bsky.social
09.10.2025 14:05 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1
My life is made better by coffee.
Really enjoying this from the brand new Heather Isle Coffee Company.
08.10.2025 23:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
That is very kind! Thank you!
08.10.2025 16:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This one!
08.10.2025 14:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My dad was a regional competitive chessplayer. I never beat him, but it felt right to put a chess story out into the world. One of the schools reading it started a chess club and I played 7 kids at once when I visited.
08.10.2025 14:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Aw, brilliant!
08.10.2025 14:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And if you love chess, I have a book about the Lewis Chessmen πβοΈ!
08.10.2025 07:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Thank you so much! Sorry you didn't sleep, but a trip to the Forth Bridge is hugely recommended. ALSO, every September, @barnardos.org.uk run a fundraiser allowing people to go to the top (in a hoist!)
It's a great experience. Look out for 'YourView' on their events page. Thanks for reading my book!
08.10.2025 07:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I think I'll remember how to knit in straight lines...
* makes note of this for next holiday *
06.10.2025 22:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'm in awe of anyone who can knit at all!
06.10.2025 21:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Looks amazing though!
06.10.2025 21:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The Berlin Wall: Divided Lives
The Berlin Wall separated families, friends, and loyalties when it was erected in 1961, symbolizing the Cold War divide. Dan Smithβs book βThe Wall Between Usβ explores the impactβ¦
Today is the #DayofGermanUnity, the 35th anniversary of two German states becoming one again.
Here is a fab classroom resource from @dansmithauthor.bsky.social to explain to kids what separation meant. A brilliant classroom resource! timetunnellers.com/2024/11/20/t...
03.10.2025 09:06 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Thank you so much!
02.10.2025 19:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Picture shows the front cover of the book To War With Wallace by Barbara Henderson
To War With Wallace by Barbara Henderson
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Review by @sarahbroadley.bsky.social
@scattyscribbler.bsky.social
@luathpress.bsky.social
#DeborahSpence#AmyTurnbull#mg#childrensbooks#illustration#childrensbooksillustration#booksforkids#kidlit#booksforchildren#readingforpleasure#youngreaders
02.10.2025 18:23 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
πβ¨ The To War With Wallace book tour continues! Visit mybookcorner.co.uk for their review of this exciting historical adventure.
Donβt miss out on their insights!
#ToWarWithWallace #BookTour #KidsLit @scattyscribbler.bsky.social @mybookcorner.bsky.social
02.10.2025 14:03 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
π The To War With Wallace tour keeps rolling! Head over to mrs_mac_makes on Instagram for their take on this engaging historical adventure for kids.
Check it out!
buff.ly/wLmoTYZ
#ToWarWithWallace #BookTour #KidsLit @scattyscribbler.bsky.social
01.10.2025 14:05 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Lovely day of ruins and old stones!
27.09.2025 22:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Writing is far from lonely for me! Thank you for letting me write a guest post, @portybelle.bsky.social !
27.09.2025 08:19 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
πβοΈ The To War With Wallace book tour continues! Check out Mrs_c_teach on Instagram for their take on this awesome historical fiction adventure. Don't miss their post! #ToWarWithWallace #BookTour #KidsLit @scattyscribbler.bsky.social
25.09.2025 14:03 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Today's adventure: author visit to Strathallan School. #WildernessWars
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24.09.2025 22:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π Our online book tour for To War With Wallace starts today! Head over to Mrs_w00d on Instagram to check out their post and dive into this thrilling historical adventure for kids.
Donβt miss it! πβ¨
buff.ly/oEsPl5F
#ToWarWithWallace #BookTour #KidsLit @scattyscribbler.bsky.social
23.09.2025 17:03 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
@laridonwriter.bsky.social
20.09.2025 20:17 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Hello, would love to be added to this.
20.09.2025 20:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
@laridonwriter.bsky.social
20.09.2025 20:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Hello! You can follow starter packs. Saves a bit of time!
20.09.2025 20:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
That's a wrap on four school sessions for the Andrew de Moray Project, with funding from @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social . Thank you all!
19.09.2025 22:48 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Outdoors around Edinburgh. Chess. Coffee. Do silly things that don't matter.
The Street Library. Where books get social π
Use YOUR books - to raise funds for YOUR favourite charity.
http://StreetLibrary.co.uk
Main Bluesky account: @ataxia.scot
Part-time fossil hunter π¦
Part-time history buff βοΈ
(Opinions my own)
Works at both a battlefield and a fossil museum - forever looking for prehistoric fish π£
www.instagram.com/that_tall_jacobite/
Scottish children's author who loves books and cake.
Poet & academic. Author of βA Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. π³οΈβπ she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
variant practice model
words sounds images place: stuff
ask to use/share images please
currently in Peru
https://clarearchibald.com/
Writer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Books. Food. Dogs.
https://linktr.ee/russjoneswrites
Disabled writer, carer & apothecary gardener. π§πΌββοΈFounder/Host Wild Women Writersβ Salons πShortlist World of Books Sustainable Story Awards 2025πPreOrder THE APOTHECARY BY THE SEA (2026) Debut memoir ALL MY WILD MOTHERS (2023- Nautilus Award Winner) π¦Orkney
poet π
free π΅πΈ
she/her
Writer, journalist.
Rural: The Lives of the Working-Class Countryside out now. Published by William Collins
Beckcsmith.com
Poet & Independent Literature Professional. A Landscape To Figure In (Red Squirrel Press). Best Scottish Poems 2022. ND. She / they. helenbodenliteraryarts.com
Writer, cat botherer, firebrand based in Orkney.Author of Ashes & Stones-shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize.ππ³οΈββ§οΈally. Any pronouns π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ https://linktr.ee/AllysonShaw More active on Mastodon. https://wandering.shop/@AllysonShaw
Writer and Lecturer in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Books include DWAMS (Tapsalteerie) and Refashioning Bill Gibb (Bloomsbury Academic, Jan 2026) π Former Scots Scriever at the National Library of Scotland.
Writes stories about dead things. New Writers Award 2022 recipient (Scottish Book Trust). πΊπΈβ‘οΈπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ she/her
Writer. Northern. Left.
The Darlings bit.ly/3afYMeK
The Emergence of Judy Taylor bit.ly/3tno6rs
Two one-woman shows and stand-up at Edinburgh Fringe.
PhD student in TV Comedy Drama.
Might go on a bit about cats/flowers.
I sing better than I bake.
Novelist. ELMET (2017) and HOT STEW (2021). Booker-shortlisted. FRSL. Words in New York Times, Guardian, The Fence, British Vogue. Psychotherapist in training.
Writer (The Wrong Person to Ask/ Bloodaxe Books, Forward Prize, James Berry Award, Saltire Prize Shortlist) Co-Founder/Director Open Book, Mentor, writing retreats at Galloway House Estate
Debut novel Fray out now with HarperCollins. Writer, runner, late diagnosed as autistic. Book orders, events, and agent contactπ https://linktr.ee/chriscarsewilson
Scottish writer based in Northern NY, via Japan and elsewhere. Work in CondΓ© Nast Traveler, BBC, Nat Geo, Washington Post and more. https://karengardiner.contently.com
Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'SchrΓΆdingerβs Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF, and 'Night Vision' from Broken Sleep Books. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
