Joanna Moult
@joannamoult.bsky.social
Literary Agent at Skylark Literary, a specialist children's and YA literary agency. Always on the look-out for something great to read. 📚 Trying not to drink too much tea. https://www.skylark-literary.com/ #ukkidlit #kidlituk
This sounds fabulous! 📚🥳
Sara Grant@authorsaragrant.bsky.social · 2w agoToday I’m part of the team that’s launching RIPPLE: The Children’s Book Hub. It’s a new initiative to connect anyone engaged in creating, promoting, distributing and improving children’s books. If that’s you, join us. For more details click the link. ripplemagazine.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Looking forward to judging this year’s entries for the Searchlight Awards Novel Prize for YA & Children's Fiction! Get your entries in soon...
ME: I am always banging on about my books and events. THEM: I did not know your events existed. Wait you wrote a book?? lesson to writers: talk MORE about your books and events.
First thought: Oh wow! I could earn a ton of cash! Second thought: How on EARTH would I choose which ones to part with...
Bookshop.org UK@bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 4mo agoTrade in your pre-loved books for store credit with our new service, Bookloop. bookloop.webuybooks.co.uk
So excited to share this! An amazing book from super-talented author, @amywilsonbooks.bsky.social, and I can’t wait for everyone to be able to read it! 😊🔥
Nosy Crow | Children's Books@nosycrow.bsky.social · 4mo agoJourney to a dark new magical world in The Hexton Chronicles: The Trouble with Magic, the first in Amy Wilson’s gripping new series, illustrated by Eric Deschamps @ericdeschamps.bsky.social. At its heart lies an unsettling truth: the seeds of magic within us don’t always grow into something good…
So happy to announce I have signed with Amber Caravéo of Skylark Literary! Her enthusiasm for my work is what every writer dreams of, and I'm so excited for all the good things to come! #TeamSkylark 🥳🩷
Amber Caraveo@ambercaraveo.bsky.social · 6mo agoExciting news! 🎉 I’ve signed talented new author @mjdaisywrites.bsky.social and I can’t wait to share her hilarious, middle-grade zombie book with the world! 😊 Welcome to Skylark, Megan! 🥂
This is great advice about world-building. You do need to make sure that you - the writer - knows every detail of that world though. Even if you don't communicate details to the reader, your knowledge, or lack of knowledge, will be detected by the reader...
Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 6mo agoUnsolicited writing advice, no. 36571: World-buiding doesn't mean describing everything. You can do more with a local fruit, a saying or a custom than you can with a dozen maps and appendices.
Welcome one and all to this special 10 year celebration of #ukteenchat with the 1st guests the chat ever had, the fabulous @ambercaraveo.bsky.social and @joannamoult.bsky.social of Skylark Literary 🎉 Remember to use the # so your tweets are seen and give us a wave if you're here 👋 #writingcommunity
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Hello there writers! Do join us tonight for #ukteenchat with the brilliant @FinlaysonPalmer who founded it ten years ago!!! Where has the time gone!? 😊 Looking forward to chatting about all things Children’s Publishing…
Emma Finlayson-Palmer@finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social · 8mo agoCelebrating 10 years of #ukteenchat the fabulous 1st ever guests @ambercaraveo.bsky.social & @joannamoult.bsky.social of Skylark Literary will be joining me on Tues 3rd Feb 8-9pm GMT right here on BlueSky. Hope you see you there 🙂 #writingcommunity #writerslife #literaryagents #SkylarkLiterary
Very excited for this on Tuesday 3rd Feb. If you’re writing for young people, please do join us for a chat about all things Teen fiction. 😊
Emma Finlayson-Palmer@finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social · 8mo agoCelebrating 10 years of #ukteenchat the fabulous 1st ever guests @ambercaraveo.bsky.social & @joannamoult.bsky.social of Skylark Literary will be joining me on Tues 3rd Feb 8-9pm GMT right here on BlueSky. Hope you see you there 🙂 #writingcommunity #writerslife #literaryagents #SkylarkLiterary
How can it be 10 years?! We are still delighted to chat about teen fiction! Please come and join us on 3rd Feb on #ukteenchat to talk about our favourite subject 📚
Emma Finlayson-Palmer@finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social · 8mo agoCelebrating 10 years of #ukteenchat the fabulous 1st ever guests @ambercaraveo.bsky.social & @joannamoult.bsky.social of Skylark Literary will be joining me on Tues 3rd Feb 8-9pm GMT right here on BlueSky. Hope you see you there 🙂 #writingcommunity #writerslife #literaryagents #SkylarkLiterary
GLITTERATI - my new YA thriller, out with Penguin, March 2027. Imagine if a teen ‘Talented Mr Ripley’ lied his way into a White Lotus-like setting where the outrageous wealth on display can’t cover up dark secrets for long.
We Won an Island by Charlotte Lo is a gorgeous, shorter read perfect for Y4 upwards. #KidlitUK #UKKidlit worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/w...
We Won an Island by Charlotte Lo
Cover artwork © Aviel Basil As I’ve aged, the things that I have wished for have changed. I still remember very clearly as a young girl in the 1970s praying that Doctor Who, in the guise of J…
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So excited to have signed our very talented 2023 Skylark Soaring Stories Competition winner, @johoward.bsky.social!! Go Team Joanna. Lucky me! 🥳🎉 And there is more to that caravan than meets the eye...
@johoward.bsky.social · 11mo agoI’m thrilled to have signed with the fantastic @joannamoult.bsky.social at Skylark Literary Agency! So excited about Jo’s vision for my book and my author career. Having a little tea break in my writing caravan to celebrate. Two Joanna’s has to be a winning combo, right?
Lamb as presenter, every breakfast telling the faithfuls they’re fucking useless now put down that fucking croissant and fuck off #CelebrityTraitors
Lev Parikian@levparikian.bsky.social · 11mo agoOK hear me out. Celebrity Traitors but with the cast of Slow Horses, all in character.
Definitely worth checking out the shortlists if you're looking for books for your young readers - every one in each category was a cracker! #TheWeekJuniorBookAwards www.thebookseller.com/news/the-wee...
The Week Junior Book Awards 2025 shortlist unveiled
The Week Junior Book Awards shortlist for 2025 has been unveiled.
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Joanna Moult@joannamoult.bsky.social · 12mo agoDouble win for Skylark Literary authors!🎉 So delighted that the hugely talented @eilishfisher.bsky.social and @clareharlow.bsky.social won their categories at The Week Junior Children's Book Awards last night. Huge congratulations, both! #TheWeekJuniorBookAwards www.thebookseller.com/news/the-wee...
Double win for Skylark Literary authors!🎉 So delighted that the hugely talented @eilishfisher.bsky.social and @clareharlow.bsky.social won their categories at The Week Junior Children's Book Awards last night. Huge congratulations, both! #TheWeekJuniorBookAwards www.thebookseller.com/news/the-wee...
The Week Junior Books Awards 2025 winners revealed
The 2025 winners of The Week Junior Book Awards have been revealed at a celebration at Waterloo’s County Hall in London.
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⚡ Learning all about the benefits of reading - still blows my mind! Did you know that a child growing up in poverty who is read to at age five has a much higher chance of economic success in their 30s than their peers who aren't read to? shorturl.at/1IEGq
The benefits of reading
From babies to children in their early years and all the way through to early teens, reading brings profound and wide-ranging benefits that can have a…
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And people think £8.99 is steep for a novel - a year's work for some creative brain and many hours of entertainment!
Kate Devlin@drkatedevlin.bsky.social · last yr.If anyone needs me, I’m outside WH Smith shrieking “£7.99 for envelopes?!?!?”
The world feels so bleak I almost didn’t post this… but fear and misery is what they want, so screw them! Out today! A YEAR OF PRIDE & JOY - 52 inspirational LGBTQ+ folk, from all walks of life, talking about JOY! Art by Ruth Burrows, curated by me. www.waterstones.com/book/a-year-...
A Year of Pride and Joy by Simon James Green, Ruth Burrows | Waterstones
Buy A Year of Pride and Joy by Simon James Green, Ruth Burrows from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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By chance, I recently gave an interview to Yahoo about section 28, book bans, and why we must never go back. US ‘pressure groups’: we won’t tolerate your anti-intellectual nonsense in UK libraries. Don’t like a book? Don’t read it. uk.news.yahoo.com/simon-james-...
'Section 28 made me feel alone growing up, we need to fight returning censorship'
Author Simon James Green joins Yahoo UK's Queer Voices to reflect on the publishing industry, Section 28, and his new book A Year of Pride and Joy.
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Possibly the best author photo ever? Find out more about debut author Olivia Wakeford and her book MY DOG in the new issue of Books for Keeps illustrations by @dc-litchfield.bsky.social #KidLit #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/an-i...
Lambeth libraries are under threat with cuts looming of 25% - on an already stretched budget. Libraries are vital to so many people - one of the few places you can go without spending money, and a portal to so many worlds. Sign and share! #KidLitUK #SaveLibraries www.change.org/p/halt-the-2...
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Writers of Bluesky! I'm on the lookout for some fresh new voices for middle grade readers. I love contemporary realistic stories but am happy to be swept away with something with fantasy elements too. All submission details are on our website www.skylark-literary.com/submission-guidelines 📚💕#MSWL
A Kirkus Star for THE BIG ASK - my dyslexia-friendly LGBTQ+ young adult novella, out in the US in April. (And available in the UK now from Barrington Stoke). 😊
STILL TIME TO FILL THIS IN - deadline is midnight tonight!
Hannah Berry@streakofpith.bsky.social · 2y agoWho’s been putting off filling in that government consultation on AI then? Because you took one look and realised that fucking thing was designed SPECIFICALLY to put you off? Don’t worry, there are three online guides to help you: The Association of Illustrators theaoi.com/news/the-cop...
