Candy Gourlay
@candygourlay.bsky.social
KidLit author. Makes comics. Loves dogs. My website: https://www.candygourlay.co.uk/ My new blog https://houseofprocrastination.substack.com/ My instagram: https://www.instagram.com/candygourlay/
OK, y'all, as I mentioned, I went to see Paul Simon play last night. I found it unexpectedly moving, quite profound actually, and I want to do a short thread about it. I'll start by saying that, for a whole bunch of reasons, aging & mortality have been much on my mind lately.
I‘m buzzing after the virtual @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Book Launch Boot Camp with the three powerhouses that are @candygourlay.bsky.social @moohara.bsky.social and @authorsaragrant.bsky.social and wonderful #scbwi peeps. Highly recommended for anyone seeking inspiration prior to launching a new book!
Thank you, Nicole! Happy #AAPIHeritageMonth!
Nicole R. Misra she/her@nicolermisra.bsky.social · last yr.May 25: Today’s novel Bone Talk is by Filipino author @candygourlay.bsky.social Candy Gourlay! This book, set during the period of American colonialism of the Philippines follows Samkad, a young Bontoc boy who is waiting to be initiated into manhood. #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIBooks #BookSky
One week only! To celebrate our SECRET LIVES OF PICTURE BOOKS event tonight @candygourlay.bsky.social and I are getting the pens out and supporting our local UK indies. You can order signed & dedicated copies of Bear and Hare from bookcornershop.co.uk/product/9781... Still time to sign up...
@beyondbiasbooks.bsky.social I've only just seen this sweet post! Thank you so much!
Little Explorers Read@littlexplorersread.bsky.social · last yr.Happy Mermaid Day! 🧜♀️ Today we’re celebrating Is it a Mermaid? by @candygourlay.bsky.social & Francesca Chessa. This beautiful book celebrates kindness and seeing the magic in others. #mermaids #picturebooks #dugong #filipinobooks #kidsbookswelove #booksky
INSPIRING! Young writers enter 100 word memoirs in New York Times Teeny Tiny Memoirs competition. Read this for free without a subscription. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/l...
Teen Tiny Memoirs: The Winners of Our 3rd Annual 100-Word Narrative Contest (Gift Article)
We invited teenagers to write miniature memoirs about meaningful moments in their lives. Read the 20 winning stories.
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Feelings I need to get rid of and feelings I need to remember. I was having the sads, then I made a comic about things I loved in school visits #kidlituk #kidlit #comics open.substack.com/pub/houseofp...
Feelings I need to get rid of and feelings I need to remember
I was feeling glum when we did List Comics at @janeporter's weekly comics class
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A handwritten letter on my illustration work desk to my local MP, Mel Stride, asking him to help UK children's book illustrators keep our copyright during the current AI policy consultation ✍️ @mrsteveantony.bsky.social @alcs-uk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social (Typed out in the alt text)
Happy 8th book birthday to my amazing wife, @fionawritesbooks.bsky.social Do Not Eat The Egg is out today! 🥳👏😍
Please credit artists! Cover reveals, using for publicity, using to illustrate a post, reposting, using for a joke - if you don't know the artist take a minute to look them up. It's really important for the artist, it's the right thing to do - and it even helps in the battle against AI. Thank you!
Now (still) in paperback! Try #TheWorldsWeLeaveBehind, by me and #LeviPinfold. A strange and shadowy kids book for our times, puzzling over revenge/justice/forgiveness in the dark woods of ethics. An other-people's-shoes machine, with the creepiest art I know. I like it, you/your kids might too...
The latest Read for Empathy collection has been launched. As always, it's full of absolutely superb books, including graphic novels, poetry, picturebooks and non-fiction. The work @empathylabuk.bsky.social are doing is incredibly important. More information here: www.empathylab.uk/rfe
Imprints are great business, but is their prestige and value getting diluted as they proliferate?, asks Sarah Moorhouse 👇 #BookSky
Have we reached peak imprint?
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Hey Middle Grade book fans! Check out my year-end wrap-up of the MG market, hot off the presses! All the data you didn't know you wanted to know. 🤓 www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...
Middle Grade Book Landscape 2024 | Sam Subity
A first look at the middle grade books published so far in 2024 with stats on publisher share, genre popularity, point of view, and gender.
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The #Carnegies25 longlists are announced 💥 From 119 nominations the librarian judges have selected 35 to longlist, 19 titles for the Carnegie Medal for #Writing & 16 for the Carnegie Medal for #Illustration. Is your favourite on these lists? #KidLitUK https://buff.ly/3CJMtsU
So can anyone tell me how to add myself to relevant starter packs ... and any starter packs I should belong to?
It's Black History Month and we're celebrating with a book a day. Feel free to join us! ✨ Book 1 of 28: The Color Purple by Alice Walker #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BookSky
Celebrate Black History Month with us by posting a book a day! ⭐ Book 12 of 28: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #Booksky
Hello! Are there any librarians on BlueSky or are you still over on the social media platform that shall not be named? If you're here, let's follow each other!
I've been posting my comics over on The House of Procrastination, on Substack. Here's a review of The Brutalist ... in comics 😀 open.substack.com/pub/houseofp...
The Brutalist: a comics review
I loved most of it but it was hard to watch so many sex scenes next to my young niece
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It is finally time! We are excited to reveal the longlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration. 🎉 Congratulations to the wonderful authors and illustrators longlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🖌️📖✨ View the full list here: carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlis...
Know someone 11-16 living in Stoke? The aim in these free workshops is to write 100 words on The Places That Make Us. 100 stories will be chosen for publication in our anthology - published in 2026 to kick off the next 100 years of Stoke authorship #100Books#100Years @lisablowerwrite.bsky.social
If you're a CREATIVE, this should go to the top of your TO DO LIST. Act now. Don't hesitate.
Chris Haughton@chrishaughton.bsky.social · last yr.This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this. www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...
@paulabooks.bsky.social 's Kitty books are my go to for when I want to impress a young reader with a bonanza of great reads.
Paula Harrison@paulabooks.bsky.social · 2y agoVery excited to reveal to you the amazing cover for Kitty and the Clifftop Peril written by me and illustrated by Jenny Lovlie. Published by OUP and out in May! It’s Kitty book 16! Look Jenny’s fabulous cover! @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social
And thank you @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social, @candygourlay.bsky.social, @moohara.bsky.social, and @louiestowell.bsky.social for the tips. They were all winners! 🎉
Eric🇺🇸🇹🇼🇦🇺🇬🇧🏳️🌈@dinoboy89.bsky.social · 2y agoThe first school event and book signing! Thanks to Kew College Prep and Kew Bookshop for making it a wonderful day. 🦊😺🌑✨
For fans of things that look like food but aren't - here are pics from the Fake Food show at the Japan House. We have levitating cheese on toast....1/6
