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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

I'm on a train to Cheltenham for an event and I think it's only just sunk in that I WON THE CARNEGIE MEDAL!!!! ARGH!

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

It's October! I'm in the woods! I just had a lovely day at the Reading for Pleasure teachers' conference! So I'll do a giveaway! 3 signed sets of October, October and Birdsong up for grabs. Just follow and RT. UK + ROI only, sorry. Ends 6pm 10th October

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

9 months

It's October, which for reasons mostly pertaining to my career, I really love. So a giveaway - a set of the October paperback and brand new Foxlight hardback! Follow and RT, UK only, ends 8/10/23 at 6pm or whenever I remember.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

No YOU'VE spent the pandemic crocheting a series of increasingly wonky Ghibli characters instead of doing any work

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Right, it was bloody brilliant to get to talk about children's books with @amolrajan on @BBCr4today this morning, and to see the conversation sparked by it. Can we PLEASE keep it going, and not let up until children's books have the mainstream representation they deserve?

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

To celebrate being Sunday Times Book of the Week plus publication in general, I'm giving away 3 hardback copies of The Light in Everything! Just follow and RT - UK only, ends 6pm 24th April, terrible wonky paper cranes not included

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

So happy and proud to have won the @The_UKLA award for OCTOBER, OCTOBER because I bloody love teachers and I bloody love a free dinner. Thank you so much to everyone involved!

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

3 years

Giveaway! The beautiful paperback of OCTOBER, OCTOBER is out today, complete with a lovely shiny quote from @Kiran_MH and cover art by @ANGELACHARDING . If you'd like one of these 3 copies then follow and RT by 6pm on 7/10 😊 🍂🍁🌲🌳

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Barrington Stoke has been quietly and beautifully producing books suitable for dyslexic and reluctant readers for decades. But they employ actual writers, so there are no BBC articles and primetime TV appearances.

Jamie Oliver: I recorded my books to avoid writing

The chef and author says writing a children's book helped him feel more positive about his dyslexia.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Hello, I've written a book again. FOXLIGHT is about wildness, sisterhood, stories lost and found, and @Barry_Falls has given it an absolute beauty of a cover. I hope you like it and I hope even more that you preorder it. Publishing 28th September, links below...

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Absolutely DELIGHTED to have won the UKLA award and the Shadowers' Choice too! I got a special medal and you can bet your house I will be wearing it to put the bins out. Thank you to everyone, and especially @mossmontmomery for agreeing to attend as my butler. #ukla

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

It's publication day for The Thames and Tide Club! The most magical mudlarking gang around... To celebrate I'm giving away 3 copies plus a surprise mudlarked item! To enter just RT and follow. UK only, ends 6pm 18th May.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

My first novella with @BarringtonStoke is out today! It's everything I love to write about - grief and joy and love and nature and birds and relationships. I'm so happy I was given the opportunity to write it, and that it's accessible to anyone who might like to read it 🎶🪶🐦

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

I am just so happy to be publishing another novella with @BarringtonStoke ! This time it's Noah's story, and it's about caring boys and different perspectives and love and birds and family and what it means to grow up... Look at that cover! #RichardJohnson is a genius

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

👑 I’m thrilled to share the beautiful cover of the first book in my new @KidsBloomsbury series for younger readers – The Thames and Tide Club and the Secret City, illustrated by @RachaelADean , publishing on 11th May 2023 🐚

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

It's October (October)! Seems appropriate to do a giveaway so just follow and RT to win a copy of October, October and the brand new shiny paperback of The Space We're In. Two sets up for grabs, UK only. Ends next Thursday 8th at 5pm🦉

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Carnegie shortlisted! So pleased to be repping Middle Grade on this lovely list, and to be part of one of the biggest moments of the year in children's literature! Congratulations everyone 🎉 #yotocarnegies23

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

5 years

To celebrate my book coming out in just 3 weeks with @KidsBloomsbury (!), I'm giving away three copies plus dog*! Just RT and follow to enter, UK only, no cats. Ends 5pm on the 22/8. *Not willing to pay postage on him so you'll have to collect. Fair warning: he pukes on rugs.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Imagine, instead of writing (possibly stretching this verb to breaking point) children's books, celebrities used their considerable reach to promote the books they'd enjoyed with their children. A kind of Oprah / Reece Witherspoon's book club, for kids. Profile boosts all round

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

9 months

Hello, this is out today. 🦊

Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Hello, I've written a book again. FOXLIGHT is about wildness, sisterhood, stories lost and found, and @Barry_Falls has given it an absolute beauty of a cover. I hope you like it and I hope even more that you preorder it. Publishing 28th September, links below...

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Honoured to be longlisted for the #YotoCarnegies23 , along with some of the very very best books I read last year. This is a BIG moment in the children's books calendar and I really, really hope it gets some mainstream media attention!

The Yoto Carnegies

@CarnegieMedals

1 year

The Light in Everything has been longlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2023, congratulations @katyabalen ! @KidsBloomsbury #YotoCarnegies23

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

What a handsome pair

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

My new book THE LIGHT IN EVERYTHING is out on April 14th, and look at this luminously beautiful cover by @Sydneydraws ! It also features a quote from @mossmontmomery , whoever he is.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

As we head into a new and hopefully excellent year, I just want to say thank you to everyone who has supported me and my books. Winning the Carnegie was an absolute dream, and I am so happy to be part of this lovely community. Minus @philearle .

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

Finished copies of October, October are here! I do not live in the woods so here they are in my wild (through neglect) garden. @ANGELACHARDING and @KidsBloomsbury have created such a beautiful thing 🦉❤️🍂

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

10 months

First copy of FOXLIGHT! Absolute kudos to @Barry_Falls for making the cover so beautiful and also for matching it perfectly to my living room wall.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

I am just sick to the back teeth of celebrities doing this. They don't care about their readers. They think this schtick is easy. They reduce respect for the entire industry. Enough.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Finished copies of THE LIGHT IN EVERYTHING have arrived and they are just so incredibly beautiful. @Sydneydraws is magical.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

The Light in Everything comes out in paperback on Thursday! The cover has had a little bit of a glow-up (glow being the operative word, wow @Sydneydraws ) and it's looking fiiiine Pls buy it.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

It's publication day! Bored my whippet senseless but signed some books in @WaterstonesPicc . He'll be more appreciative when he finally learns to read.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

I am so happy to have two books on this brilliant list! The Carnegie really promotes and values children's books in a world where that is increasingly rare, and I can't tell you how much that means and how important it is. Congratulations all! 🎉

The Yoto Carnegies

@CarnegieMedals

2 years

📣 We are delighted to announce the nominations for the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration! Congratulations to all the incredible authors and illustrators in the running for the #YotoCarnegies23 ! View the full lists here:

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

8 months

Very happy that my strange book about foxes and stories and sisters was Sunday Times Book of the Week! Thank you @NicoletteJones 🦊💡

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Beyond honoured to have October, October on this outrageously good longlist! The sun is shining and I'm going to the pub later - all in all it's a great day. 🦉🎉📚 #ckg22

The Yoto Carnegies

@CarnegieMedals

2 years

October, October has been longlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022, congratulations @katyabalen ! @KidsBloomsbury @ANGELACHARDING #CKG22

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

I am so so pleased to share @ANGELACHARDING 's stunning cover for my second book, #OctoberOctober , with design wizardry by Stephanie Amster. It's out in September with @KidsBloomsbury and it's full of secrets, stories, a wild girl and an owl called Stig.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

10 months

I HAVE DONE ANOTHER BOOK. The Thames + Tide Club 2: Squid Invasion* is out 1st Feb 2024. Magical mudlarking, terrible puns, power-hungry squid. Brilliant cover by the brilliant @RachaelADean * @KidsBloomsbury wouldn't let me call it SQUIDMAGEDDON + I will never get over it

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Sunday Times book of the week! What a lovely thing! Thank you @NicoletteJones 🤩

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Ridiculously delighted to be on the #CKG22 shortlist, and with so many outstanding writers. Congratulations all! Thank you so much to the judges, everyone at @KidsBloomsbury , and @ANGELACHARDING . About to disappear into a surrealism exhibition, which feels very fitting... ARGH!

The Yoto Carnegies

@CarnegieMedals

2 years

October, October has been shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022, congratulations @katyabalen ! @KidsBloomsbury @ANGELACHARDING #CKG22

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

3 years

I can say with complete honesty that this is the best thing to have happened in my entire career 😍

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

3 years

I met @JackieMorrisArt and we talked of books and foxes. I can't quite believe it, but she sent me this beautiful painting. It's just come back from the framer and I feel so incredibly lucky to work in an industry populated by such kind and generous people. I mean look at it!

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Children's Book of The Week in @thetimes for THE LIGHT IN EVERYTHING! Absolutely thrilled with this 🎉 Thank you @aoconnell for such a beautiful review

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

THE LIGHT IN EVERYTHING is out tomorrow! I am a heady mix of excited and terrified, and tomorrow I will be a heady mix of excited and terrified and champagne. Thanks to @KidsBloomsbury and @Sydneydraws for this wonderful animation, and everyone who has said such nice things❤️

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Very grateful that @NicoletteJones chose The Light in Everything as a @thetimes Book of the Year! Alongside my lovely pal @emmac2603 and my bitter rival, @philearle 🌊♥️ 🥳

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Twitter! Could anyone recommend books (children's or adult fic but no sci-fi...) set on small, remote islands, or somewhere very difficult to access? Thank you in advance! Bonus points for literary fiction for either age group....

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@katyabalen

2 years

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

3 years

What an outstanding list of nominations for #CKG22 . So happy that October, October found a place amongst such beautiful books

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Telegraph Children's Book of the Week! I think this might be the nicest review I've ever had! Thank you @Telegraph for keeping your promise to review a children's book each week. Change is happening!

FBA

@FelicityBryan

1 year

We could not be more thrilled to see a five-star review for @katyabalen 's THE LIGHT IN EVERYTHING in the @Telegraph ! 🌟 'Skilfully handles hard-hitting issues for young readers … the Carnegie Medal winner's latest book is a triumph'

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

I know everyone already knows this, but @Struan_Murray is a world-building imagination-stuffed genius. I'm reading a draft of his new novel and it's breathtakingly good.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Ah the first copy of my new junior series book THE THAMES AND TIDE CLUB has arrived! What a cover! (by @RachaelADean ) Contains mudlarking, magic, and a megalomaniacal porpoise. 🐬 It's out May 11th and on Netgalley now too I think!

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

This is quite possibly the most chaotically brilliant photo of all time. What a great bunch of lads. @RobBiddulph @philearle @J_C_Pearson

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

Arghhhh my little goblin face is in The Times! October, October is Children's Book of the Week! Arghhhhhh ❤️🦉🍂

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Bowled over to be @thetimes Children's Book of the week for THE THAMES AND TIDE CLUB! Thank you so much @TimesLucy ! Out May 11th 🐬🌊✨

The Thames and Tide Club by Katya Balen review — dive in to a magical underwater London

Young adventurers explore a flooded, fishy city, from Pikeadilly Circus to Codvent Garden. Review by Lucy Bannerman

www.thetimes.com

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Oh good

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

2 years

Scholastic has scooped Rosie Frost and the Falcon Queen, an adventure story by author and former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell-Horner, in a two-book deal.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

8 months

Thrilled to be doing another novella with @BarringtonStoke 🏠 ♥️ Now let's focus on what's important - my book selling more than @philearle 's

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

8 months

ICYMI: @BarringtonStoke has signed @katyabalen 's "stunning" third novella, Little House, with "beautiful" illustrations from Richard Johnson ⬇️

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

3 years

Proofs of my new book have just arrived! It's called THE LIGHT IN EVERYTHING and it's being illustrated by the incomparable Sydney Smith @Sydneydraws . It's not out until April '22 but a select few proofs are heading to indie booksellers soon. I'm not terrified at all I'm fine ok

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

11 months

Hello! I'm doing a Thames and Tide Club event at @Southwarkcathed on Saturday! Please do bring your mini mudlarks along, and come and join the most mysterious magical mudlarking society in all of London...

Mudlarking and Heritage Craft Day - Southwark Cathedral

Join us at Southwark Cathedral for this day celebrating the River Thames and some of the crafts that helped build London

cathedral.southwark.anglican.org

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Ahhh THE LIGHT IN EVERYTHING is shortlisted for the glorious #UKLABookAwards2023 ! Lovely awards ceremony! Lovely teachers! Lovely free dinner!

UKLA

@The_UKLA

1 year

@The_UKLA is proud to announce 4 stunning SHORTLISTS for the #UKLABookAwards 2023. Congratulations to the authors, illustrators and translators of our shortlists: 3-6+, 7-10+, 11-14+ and Information books 3-14+ @ReadingCloudESS @lovereadingkids

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

I'm calling it - I think this is my book of the year. Arrived this morning (thank you @philearle ) and I devoured it. Incredibly witty, immaculately plotted, fantastic characterisation and just the most beautiful end (even though I wish it hadn't had to) BUY IT. @LissaKEvans

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Amazing! But this can't just be a flash-in-the-pan - we have to keep the dialogue going and get long-lasting commitment to promoting children's writing 💥

Piers Torday

@PiersTorday

1 year

Children’s books on @BBCr4today for the third time in a week! 🙌🙌🙌 Huge decision by @TelegraphBooks to commit to weekly coverage of children’s books (along with @TheTimesBooks ) being discussed with @MichaelRosenYes . Be great if @GuardianBooks could follow suit 🙏🙏🙏

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

Huge fan of @Hickesy 's debut. There should be more MG horror, and this is a prime example of how brilliant it can be Yes I did match my blanket to the book cover Yes I do have a blanket over my knees Yes I am 98 years old

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

5 years

With the incredible @aishabushby who is signing her children's book of the month at @blackwelloxford . I got to put the 'signed by the author' stickers on so I'm pretty integral to the whole operation

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

@thebookseller @scholasticuk @MrPeterAndre @KatieKearArt I look forward to him engaging with the children's book community and supporting his fellow writers ☺️

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Massive thanks to everyone involved in the awards, to my agent Catherine @FelicityBryan , to @KidsBloomsbury ( @beatricemay ❤️), to my lovely fellow authors, to the judges and shadowing children (who were unbelievably articulate + engaged, the future is bright) ARGH!

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

11 months

I am asked about my favourite book pretty much every week, and my answer hasn't changed since I was 8...

David Almond OBE

@davidjalmond

11 months

Skellig is 25! The beautiful new edition, with wonderful art by Tom de Freston, is published next week.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

3 years

I am so unbelievably honoured to be on this beautiful list - the Carnegie is just every children's writer's DREAM. Congratulations to everyone! Huge thanks to all the judges, and to the amazing team at @KidsBloomsbury - esp @LucyMackaySim and @beatricemay

The Yoto Carnegies

@CarnegieMedals

3 years

Congratulations to all of the fantastic authors on the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal Longlist! 20 outstanding books telling a variety of stories to transport young readers to new and exciting worlds! #CKG21 #BestChildrensBooks

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

3 years

How lovely that October, October by me and the outstanding @ANGELACHARDING has been longlisted for the #BluePeterBookAwards alongside these brilliant books and their brilliant authors!

BookTrust

@Booktrust

3 years

✨We are so excited to unveil the brilliant books on this year's Blue Peter Book Awards longlist!✨ We'd love to hear which books you're backing for Best Story and Best Book with Facts! Find out more here: #BPBA #BluePeterBookAwards @cbbc

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

10 months

Just had my heart broken and put back together by THE FINAL YEAR by Matt Goodfellow @EarlyTrain . Out 7/9, beautifully illustrated by @Joetoddstanton , it's one of my books of the year. If that counts for anything. Anyway, buy it.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

I'm so excited to be shortlisted, and I am so grateful that we have such incredible people dedicated to getting children reading and excited about books 🥳

Alexandra Palace Children's Book Award

@APChBookAward

4 years

Shortlisted Book No 4 of 6 October October by Katya Balen @katyabalen Published by Bloomsbury @KidsBloomsbury Cover by Angela Harding @ANGELACHARDING

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Newest recruit for the Thames and Tide Club, and the man who sent me 19 emails of fish puns in a row: my father

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Ahhh LOOK this beautiful cover and interiors for my novella, BIRDSONG! They're by Richard Johnson, who is all kinds of genius. Publishing 7th July with @BarringtonStoke 😊🪶🎶

Barrington Stoke

@BarringtonStoke

2 years

Here's an extra special treat for your Tuesday! 🤩 We are delighted to share the GORGEOUS cover & a sneak-peek at a few illustrations from @katyabalen 's #Birdsong . This utterly beautiful artwork is by the brilliant Richard Johnson and we couldn't be more in love with it. 🧡🪶

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

THE THAMES AND TIDE CLUB is @NicoletteJones ' book of the week in the @thetimes today! I had *such* fun writing it. If you like magic, mudlarking, and gangster eels called Kevin then do give it a whirl... 🌊🐬✨ Out on Thursday and BRILLIANTLY illustrated by @RachaelADean

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

This is a brilliant debut by @tashajhastings - richly imagined, original and with a hint of delicious darkness. It's out on Thursday and you should buy it.

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@katyabalen

5 years

It's my book! In physical form! For physical reading, or building a physical fort for your hamster or whatever.

Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK

@KidsBloomsbury

5 years

How beautiful do these finished copies of @katyabalen 's #TheSpaceWereIn look!? And just check out those illustrations from #LauraCarlin that can be found under the dust jacket! Publishing 5th September - who's excited!? ✨😍✨

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@katyabalen

4 years

Wow. Just wow. I absolutely loved this with my whole blackened heart. Feels like a classic, but also completely original. Buy it immediately.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

5 years

My book is out today! I'm stealing @aishabushby 's photo because JUST LOOK AT IT! So lucky and happy and excited to be published by @KidsBloomsbury and to have picked up some fairly tolerable friends along the way ♥️

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@katyabalen

2 years

So proud to be published by Barrington Stoke because they make books accessible and because their logo is an adorable little squirrel. Both things v important to me. BIRDSONG fledges July '22! 🐦🎶📚

Barrington Stoke

@BarringtonStoke

2 years

The news is out! We're delighted to share that we're publishing our first with @katyabalen 🥳 #Birdsong is a truly heartfelt and captivating story of friendship, nature and recovery from one of the most exciting voices in children's fiction. Arriving July!

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

3 years

This is just such an extraordinarily beautiful book - it's what I'd like to write when I grow up please. @orionbooks @Kiran_MH

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

The Rescue of Ravenwood is absolutely brilliant. It is everything the very best books are. Classic, modern, warm, righteous, brilliantly written and perfectly pitched. Out on Thursday. Brava @NatashaFarrant1

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

3 years

So thrilled that The Space We're In is a #ReadForEmpathy 2021 pick. Thank you to @EmpathyLabUK for helping children learn, understand and communicate their feelings through the power of books!

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Why, for the love of god, is this not called Eels on Wheels

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

I'm so ridiculously happy to have been Highly Commended for the @BranfordBoase Award alongside my amazing editor @LucyMackaySim . She's truly the very best. And congratulations to the winner @LondonBessie ! Children's books and those who make them are BRILLIANT 🌟

Branford Boase Award

@BranfordBoase

4 years

Huge congratulations Katya Balen and Lucy Mackay-Sim, author and editor of The Space We're In, Highly Commended for the #BranfordBoaseAward 2020

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

OCTOBER has been shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and I'm so happy - not least because there will be a ceremony at Barnes Wetland Centre and @beatricemay has promised to steal me an otter 🥰🦦 Congratulations to everyone on the shortlist!

The Wainwright Prize

@wainwrightprize

2 years

1/2 The #WainwrightPrize22 shortlist for writing on #Nature & #Conservation for Children is… ⭐️🧡 Around the World in 80 Trees, @benlerwill By Rowan and Yew, @M_Z_Harrison Julia and the Shark, @Kiran_MH October, October, @katyabalen @ANGELACHARDING #JCWP22 @jamescropper

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

@PhilTite1 @frankcottrell_b I'm very proud to write for them

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

My second book, October, October is out today! I'm in Berlin for the lit festival so I can't take any artfully posed book-and-dog pictures but here's one of a tiny celebration cake and a bit of my leg. Hurrah for books and cake and legs!

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Absolutely delighted that October, October is on the @The_UKLA shortlist! Especially as my @KidsBloomsbury stablemate @WelshDragonParr is on there with her fantastic debut 👏💫📚

UKLA

@The_UKLA

2 years

IT’S HERE! Please see the much-anticipated #UKLA22 Book Awards Shortlist here: #teachersbookawards RT and spread the word!

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Out with the lads

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Just a bunch of lads* on their way to the #ukla book awards. * @mossmontmomery wanted to call us a 'chapter of authors'. Absolutely not.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

I get to go to a party with some of my greatest friends and enemies! 🎉

Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK

@KidsBloomsbury

1 year

🎉 Exciting news!🎉 We are delighted that The Light in Everything by @katyabalen has been shortlisted in The Week Junior Book Awards 2023 for Children's Book of the Year: Older Fiction! #TWJAwards @theweekjunior

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Sensational. Breathtakingly original and beautifully written. Out in March!

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

It's taken me a little while to finish this book because of work events, but what a thing to be able to savour. All the stuff of life. Beautiful, heartbreaking, joyful, moving, loving. Out in October with @LittleToller , written by Reuben and @ManniCoeWrites

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@katyabalen

2 years

BIRDSONG is included in the #PrimarySchoolBookClub vote! You can vote @PrimarySchoolBC if you fancy a more wholesome democratic experience than our current government is offering

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

1 year

Small note - I've now got a website for school visits, FAQs, resources etc. Smaller note - I am not good at building websites.

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www.katyabalen.com

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

This is brutal and beautiful and extraordinary

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

I'm so happy that October, October is a @thetimes and @ST_Culture Book of the Year! To celebrate we took my mum's new puppy for a walk in the mist. (his name is Solomon and I would die for him)

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

5 years

It's my cover! I cannot believe how lucky I am to work with such an amazing team @KidsBloomsbury and have such an incredible illustrator in #LauraCarlin . Please do buy it, so that I can continue to treat my dog in the manner to which he has become accustomed...

Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK

@KidsBloomsbury

5 years

🚨COVER REVEAL KLAXON!🚨 How beautiful is this #LauraCarlin cover for @katyabalen 's debut novel THE SPACE WE'RE IN?! We’ve even treated you to a sneak peak under the dust jacket and into Max and Frank’s world… Publishing 5/9, find out more here:

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Well well well, this was fantastic. I think I loved it even more than When The Sky Falls. Laugh out loud, and full of bravery and tenderness and adventure. WELL DONE PHIL. Buying you some crocs to celebrate.

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

5 years

In case you were wondering about levels of author self-doubt and insecurity, a publisher asked me to record myself pronouncing my own name and I googled it

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

4 years

I'm unbelievably thrilled to be on this list, and especially with so many of the friends I've made along the way. Shame I will now have to have them all killed 😔

Branford Boase Award

@BranfordBoase

4 years

Congratulations to the authors and editors on the longlist for the 2020 Branford Boase Award #BBA2020 #newtalent

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

It's sweater weather in South London 🍂

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

I have a new book out with @KidsBloomsbury at some point next year! It's about two sisters who set off into the wildlands in search of their mother... #primaryschoolbookclub

Jenny Hawke

@JennyHawke1

2 years

@PrimarySchoolBC @katyabalen @BarringtonStoke Are you able to share with us what we might see next from you? #PrimarySchoolBookGroup

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Katya Balen

@katyabalen

2 years

Absolutely delighted to have been Highly Commended for the @wainwrightprize at a ceremony at the beautiful @WWTLondon 🦦🦢🦆 Bitterly disappointed in @beatricemay 's otter procurement skills though. Do better.

The Wainwright Prize

@wainwrightprize

2 years

The judges also wanted to highly commend ‘October October’ by @katyabalen , illustrated by @ANGELACHARDING , published by @KidsBloomsbury Congratulations! #WainwrightPrize22 #JCWP22

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