It’s preorder time! 💃🏻🕺🏻Reserve your copy of Gossamer House today and be among the first to read, review and REVEL!! 🎉👻🎉#kidslit #childrensbook #spooky #mystery #middlegradebooks
Congratulations! Can’t wait to read this!!! My spooky middle grade is out mid-March, fancy a book swap? 📚👻
A copy of The Unfinished Business on a rusted surface. The book is a softcover (although there's a hardcover available!) and shows a night-time cityscape with glowing windows. A girl looks out a top-storey window at three ghosts floating overhead. In the background is a wind-up ghost with "boo!" written on its belly.
Me again, talking about my ghostly middle grade novel The Unfinished Business. It's out in two weeks, and it would mean a lot if you wanted to help spread the word!
Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/975/978164...
Zon: www.amazon.com/dp/1646036751
🎄 Coming soon… 🎄
Gossamer House is a spooky middle-grade adventure featuring a haunted house, creepy forest and an art heist! 🎁
🎄 Coming soon… 🎄
Gossamer House is a spooky middle-grade adventure featuring a haunted house, creepy forest and an art heist! 🎁
Did you know, you can read The Ghosts of Hawkthorn, in print AND online?? If you like spooky adventure stories, give it a go. All the cool cats are loving it! 🐾👻 #readforpleasure #kidslit #fiction #adventure #ghosts
No tricks, just a treat!
Cover for ‘The Shoe Creeper’ book which is released 25.09.2026
I’m excited to share ‘The Shoe Creeper’ cover and key info!
In ‘The Shoe Creeper’ - a MG Horror with adventure and heart - a boy seeking control of his complicated life must uncover the link between his unwell grandmother and a fairy-tale monster that kidnaps children.
#books #reveal #kidlit
I think I get a feeling/idea for a story, and that quickly develops. Soon the plot is taking shape and the characters are popping into my mind (and heart) so rapidly it’s hard to keep up. I don’t have a set approach yet. I like seeing how things happen naturally. #TheShoeCreeper #ukteenchat
I needed to ensure anyone who read Fyn Carter and expected more of the same was clear what to expect this time. #TheShoeCreeper still has fun and adventure, but it does have some darker moments too. I also needed to put thought into how dark was too dark to try and get the balance right #ukteenchat
😂 It seems soooo good right now! #ukteenchat
Sure! #TheShoeCreeper is an upper MG horror story based on the idea of an original folk tale about a monster that kidnaps and eats people, leaving behind a single shoe as a calling card. I came up with the idea after wondering why there are so many random shoes on the side of the road! #ukteenchat
For #TheShoeCreeper I wanted to set it in real time in a real place so researched times of sunrise, sunset, high tide, low tide, moon visibility, school terms etc. I also did a walking tour of the key locations in the book (in Seaton) at the same seasonal time to pick up extra details. #ukteenchat
Seaton is a town I love, and some of my favourite people live there. With its location in Devon on the south coast of England, it felt like a nice place to explore in writing. I also like the feeling of the people I know there seeing the place through different eyes 👀 #ukteenchat #TheShoeCreeper
Now realising some of favourite spooky tropes (graveyards, a stormy night, and foggy areas) are not in the book 😂 I do like a spooky forest, the threat of the unknown, and a connection to the past. You can definitely expect those (and some atmospheric weather) in #TheShoeCreeper 👟🎃📖 #ukteenchat
Really looking forward to this!! Thank you ☺️👟🎃📖 #ukteenchat #kidlit #TheShoeCreeper
Next #ukteenchat will be on Tues 7th October 8-9pm BST with the fabulous @ianhcreates.bsky.social - who will be chatting all about his new spooky MG - The Shoe Creeper 👟 All welcome to cone along and join in the chat 🙂
#TheShoeCreeper #writingcommunity #writerslife #kidlit
My next spooky middle-grade adventure is coming soon. Stay tuned…
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
Last night, at Goldsmiths University of London, we launched my book that introduces students (or anyone else) to the study of Children's Literature:
@GoldUnivMACL
@GoldsmithsUoL
A little nudge to draw you to my website where you’ll find * author updates & news, * Writing tips, * Book reviews * A free newsletter subscription, and an online shop featuring books and book swag! 📚🥳 stephaniecotela.com
If you’re in the area, stop by and say hi! 👋🏼
I'm so honored to be a guest on the Women, Books & More podcast! Thanks @irenerawlings.bsky.social for having me! www.iheart.com/podcast/1323... #kidlit #picturebooks #kidlitart
I’ll do a proper video to say thanks and more soon, but thanks so much for the initial support and excitement for ‘The Shoe Creeper’! I am really looking forward to sharing it in 22 days! 👟🎃📖
#kidlit #theshoecreeper #kindle #newbook #books #bookstagram #halloween
Spooky, cosy season has arrived, am I right?!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
#LGBTQ #KidLit #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky
Narratess Indie Book Sale, August 23-25. Banner shows several ebooks around a graphic of a dragon reading.
Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.
go grab my fantasy novel in the big indie sale!! 🎉
it's 400+ pages and features protective siblings and an unexpectedly caring vampire and demon. 🥹
universal: mybook.to/D3rL5
itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
book sale link: indiebook.sale
New trailer for The Ghosts of Hawkthorn. 🥳
