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🎉🎉🎉IT'S HERE!!!🎉🎉🎉 The new Authorfy site has over 10,000 hours of author videos, hundreds of classroom resources & book extracts, a new search function, author letters & more. Become a member at authorfy.com & you could win £1000 / £500 / £250 worth of books 👇

✨✨ WIN 5 copies of the brand new 11+ graphic novel KICK FLIP!! ✨✨ Written by L.D. Lapinski & illustrated by Logan Hanning, it’s a powerful & uplifting story about self-discovery, acceptance and belonging. Perfect for fans of Heartstopper & you can download KS3 resources at…

✨✨ BOOK GIVEAWAY & MORE MASTERCLASS VIDEOS WITH PHIL EARLE!! ✨✨ We now have a whopping 25 videos with @philearle including 10 new videos on the brand new ‘The Dawn of Adonis’ & a scheme of work. Hear Phil talk about his inspirations, creating villains, writing prologues &…

✨✨ BOOK GIVEAWAY & NEW AUTHOR MASTERCLASS!! ✨✨ I have been SO excited to announce this one… @edgechristopher has been one of our most-requested authors over the last few years and now we have 10 videos, a scheme of work on the brand new ‘Escape Room: Game Zero’, printable…

Free books AND a discounted Authorfy subscription!? HAPPY SUMMER, EVERYONE!!! 📚🎉✍🏼

This is MEGA!!!!! 2026 will be the National Year of Reading! ✨📚 Announced today by Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson (@bPhillipsonMP) and @Literacy_Trust, the campaign will engage new audiences in reading, encourage reading for pleasure and change the…

✨JULY BOOKS OF THE MONTH ✨ We couldn’t end the year without a BUMPER set of brilliant books to recommend ahead of the summer holidays! Watch all of these authors talk about their books - and download extracts / resources at Authorfy.com/books-of-the-m…! 📚 THE WOOD WHERE MAGIC…

Like most people I’m using this place less and less but I LOVE Instagram & would love to stay in touch with more of you there. I’m at instagram.com/meltaylorbesse… in case anyone would like to find me there xx

In case anyone needs some last-minute writing prompts for NATIONAL WRITING DA, my ‘Write For Fun’ YouTube channel is filled with fun writing challenges, story prompts, games & more 🎬 YouTube channel: m.youtube.com/@WriteforFunwi… ✨ Free Write For Fun poster: static1.squarespace.com/static/5f9d837…

Y2JH enjoyed watching 5 questions with Alex Falase-Koya, who is the author of the Mav books, for their ‘Reader of the Week’ reward. A wonderful treat chosen by the Reading Ambassadors. @authorfy @HGold_author @AlexFKoya #reading

I’m not sure we could love the National Literacy Trust any more!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ No school library? Apply now for #LibrariesForPrimaries from @Literacy_Trust… ✨ 500 FREE books ✨ FREE teacher training ✨ Worth £6,500+ Apply for 2025/26: librariesforprimaries.org.uk/schools…

We’re excited to launch this year’s Summertime Book Review Challenge! This year, for the first time ever, all participating schools will be invited to a special virtual author talk from Mel Taylor-Bessent. Find out more here: schoolreaders.org/bookreview @MelTBessent

✨ Summertime Book Review Competition ✨ If any of your pupils would like to write a book review this summer (on any book they like!) their class will automatically get a free virtual visit from me in the autumn term! Find out more at: schoolreaders.org/bookreview?fbc… 📚✍🏼

✨ JUNE BOOKS OF THE MONTH ✨ It’s a big list this month and we’ve got something for everyone - poetry, picture books, YA books, dyslexia-friendly texts, fantasy adventures, spooky stories, young fiction with plenty of humour… 🎬 Watch all of our BOTM videos and download…

✨✨ GIVEAWAY!!!! ✨✨ We’re celebrating the publication of the third Pirate Academy book (Sword Echoes) by our brilliant friend @JustinSomper by running a big book giveaway. To be in with the chance of winning a Pirate Academy bundle, just: 🏴‍☠️ ‘Like’ this post 🏴‍☠️ RT by…

🏝️🌈✨ COVER REVEAL!!!!✨🌈🏝️ I’m buzzing to reveal the cover for Imagination Island 3 - RACE TO RUMBLE RUIN - illustrated by the incredible @alessandrodurs7 & designed by @hamdesign. Giant space hoppers! A rainbow road in the sky! An ending that made me cry 😭 Out Jan 2026

SO excited for this!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

✨✨ A VERY SPECIAL AUTHOR MASTERCLASS!!!! ✨✨ EdTech CEO, sci-fi writer & theoretical physicist Femi Fadugba has a brand new author masterclass on Authorfy where he talks about his sci-fi thrillers ‘The Upper World’ & ‘The Mirror World’, being inspired by physics, his planning…