Author of PEREGRINE QUINN AND THE COSMIC REALM ✨Out now with
@piccadillypress
Agent:
@jcehare
PhD(c) in Myth | BA Classics | You’ll find me in the forest 🌿📔
🌟It is a weird and wonderful thing when your wildest dreams come true. 🤸♀️
🌟Current me can’t quite believe it… but six-year-old me can (and she is THRILLED!). 🤸♀️
🌟I am over the Cosmic moon to be publishing with Piccadilly. Peregrine could not be in safer hands! 🙌 🌟
We are so excited to announce the acquisition of the incredible Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm and two other books in debut author
@ashbwrites
’ major middle-grade mythological series from
@TheAgencyBooks
! 🤩
Arriving in hardback in spring 2024.
🪽 Peregrine is now officially out in the world! Please go find her, and take photos as I’m still not entirely sure that this isn’t just a very wonderful dream… ✨😅
Thank you
@jcehare
@ruthmarybennett
and all at
@piccadillypress
who have worked SO hard to make this dream real.
Happy Peregrine Quinn day! We're so excited to celebrate the release of
@ashbwrites
' epic new fantasy.
We instantly fell in love with this story, starring an extraordinary hero and steeped in magic & adventure. Now it's time to share her with the world ✨
Wonderful agent just emailed with the news that we’re a ‘TOP STORY’ this week in the Bookseller. 🙀🤸♀️🧚🏽♂️
Cannot wait to open the portal to this realm of dryad librarians, coffee-addicted fauns and AquaPods 🚀 thank you everyone who has clicked and read! x
When a book deal is announced… hike to a stone circle to say thank you. Classic fantasy author behaviour.
There are far more ‘thank yous’ to be said than there are stones in this circle. I hope I get to say each one in person one day. x
2 weeks until she flies!! A Very Dramatic Box Opening for Peregrine as I peer at this beautiful hardback through my Very Long Fringe… what an incredible object!
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
Portals - and pre-orders - are now open to my debut middle-grade fantasy adventure Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm!
Get ready for an edge-of-your-seat race between the realms!
Out April 2024 from Piccadilly Press 💫
Pre-order now:
@piccadillypress
A quick and heartfelt thank you to all the booksellers, bloggers and rockstar librarians who are out there championing Peregrine this week. Thank you thank you thank you!!
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
Just returned from our first
@UoBrisEnglish
Creative Writing Retreat! Many adventures were had, including building fires, arguing about poetry & stomping to waterfalls 🔥 ⛄️ We also wrote words. Thank you writers for trusting me & for letting me drag you into the mountains ☺️
What a week for superstar author
@ashbwrites
and her debut middle-grade PEREGRINE QUINN AND THE COSMIC REALM ✨
It was such a joy to finally celebrate the release of this truly magical new middle-grade book at
@Waterstones262
(with THE most epic cake to exist in all the realms)
Finished copies of
#PeregrineQuinn
just dropped in the office, and they are totally COSMIC! 🌟
Have you pre-ordered this electrifying debut from breakout star
@ashbwrites
yet? 👀
Grab yours:
😮 This evening I will be chairing the MIND-BLOWINGLY AMAZING world-building genius that is
@say_shannon
at
@Waterstones262
.
And tomorrow I will be waking up in Narnia.
✨What a SPARKLY reveal! ✨Thank you
@twodots_studio
and
@BonnierZaffreAD
for the most magical of covers. I can hardly believe it!
‘Peregrine Quinn’ is out in shiny shiny hardback April 2024 from the dream team
@piccadillypress
Pre-order here: https//lnk.to/TheCosmicRealm
Peregrine Quinn is about to discover that her grandfather's tales are so much more than simply bedtime stories. Bringing myth into the modern day with a cast of unforgettable characters,
@ashbwrites
new series promises magic and mayhem. Preorder now:
I’m taking a couple of hours off from editing to read and WOW
@JordanHLees
… this is marvellous! I haven’t felt this enchanted by a book for a while ✨ Hats off, Sir 👌(also the bookseller in-jokes are very pleasing!)
@PuffinBooks
Helloo! On top of a mountain feels the perfect place to announce that I am now represented by the deeply magical
@jcehare
at
@TALLChildrens
! I have a pile of thank yous as TALL as this mountain to everyone who has nudged me, Peregrine & her mystical-mythological world forward!
It's publication week for
@ashbwrites
' PEREGRINE QUINN AND THE COSMIC REALM! ✨
We can't believe this incredible, adventurous, utterly magical book is landing on shelves this Thursday. Which edition are grabbing: gold, or the indie exclusive silver?
PhD Creative Writing student
@ashbwrites
recently secured a three-book deal with
@piccadillypress
to bring her Peregrine Quinn novels to life 📖
Find out how her time at Bristol has influenced her writing and fostered her creativity ➡️
Eep! My first official Bookseller Review from the incredible
@erin_writesgood
from
@waterstonesbath
! Actual sobs of joy. 💜 thank you so much, this means the world x
Check out my AMAZING editor and this very big poster! There is a fun pre-order competition with goodies and a signed bookplate and all of the things - link below! ✨☺️✨(did I mention my amazing editor?)
Did you know that the audiobook edition of PEREGRINE QUINN AND THE COSMIC REALM is narrated by none other than the incredible Adjoa Andoh?
Join Adjoa as she brings
@ashbwrites
' epic middle-grade adventure to life. Available to listen in just two weeks:
This is the first writing competition I have entered since I was 7 years old and I am over the COSMIC moon to have won 🌙 Thank you so much to Georgina for her kind words, they mean everything.
What an incredible launch for ‘Bringing Back Kay-Kay’ by the wonder that is
@DevyaniNK
… so many friends to reconnect with, cupcakes to eat, even a beautiful gift to unwrap on the train. I am bursting with joy!! ‘a mystery worthy of Agatha Christie’ 🥳 wohoo! x
My first official academic paper, in which I have managed to fangirl over both
@neilhimself
and
@MESalisbury
AND use a Brit Pop reference in the title.
I’ll be posting photos of all of the INCREDIBLE London bookshops I visited today with Peregrine, but FYI this lady was with me the whole time!
@amberivatt
Cheerleading, caffeinating and being an all-round PR rockstar. Such a gift to spend the day with you! 💫 ☕️
@piccadillypress
We can't believe it's less than three months
#PeregrineQuinn
by
@ashbwrites
hits shelves! 😱
💫 Discover the portal to an incredible new world in this epic middle-grade adventure, perfect for fans of Skandar, Percy Jackson and Artemis Fowl.
Pre-order: ✨
An electric day presenting Pérégrine to a theatre full of booksellers in Paris, & talking myth, mirrors & feminism with my fabulous French editor Shaïne Cassim. This city, this city, this city. I need to return immediately. Thank you Castermann
@ilalondon
@TheAgencyBooks
📚💥Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm is now HALF PRICE at
@WHSmith
🤯! That is SO MANY REALMS for £6.49! And in shiny shiny HB too!💥📚
✨(Plus all pre-orders are very very VERY helpful!) Thank you book friends! ✨
Manuscript is out with agents who requested after
@MAWFYPAnthology
(🥳). In the meanwhile, I’ve been walking around this island - StoneHenge, Glastonbury, Brecon, Tintagel… waiting for an idea to sing to me. Yesterday on a midnight stroll… BAM! 🌟 Next story here I come! ☺️
So this is what happens when you were a
@WaterstonesKids
bookseller and you bring in a proof of your book. EXCELLENT enthusiasm from Kate at Waterstones Wells here!!🤩 so much love.
Met the wonderful Kate at
@WaterstonesCDF
and we discussed what makes the perfect MG fantasy adventure (don’t worry
@piccadillypress
we decided Peregrine had all the magic ingredients… plus jelly beans) 🌟
@TheAgencyBooks
🏴
📚I used to get all of my Classics books (second hand) from
@blackwelloxford
- so having them reveal Peregrine’s cover is something of a wild and brilliant dream. Thank you! And thank you
@twodotscreative
for your brilliant art and
@piccadillypress
for being brilliant. ✨
We’re excited to reveal the electrifying
@twodots_studio
cover for
@ashbwrites
’ unforgettable debut Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm!
Out April 2024.
Pre-order your copy today:
I went to a
@libarts_bristol
workshop with
@Tracy_Chevalier
yesterday where she put up her PUBLISHED and VERY FAMOUS work on the screen and asked us to edit it with her, taking every note with a nod. What a god damn rockstar. 🦄
Peregrine is in a LIBRARY! And she didn’t even need to break in this time! Thank you so much for such a stellar display Caroline 🤩
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
We had so much fun out and about in Oxford yesterday filming with
@ashbwrites
ahead of the release of
#PeregrineQuinn
and the Cosmic Realm next month! 🌟
She took us to all of the key locations from the book, and we can't wait to share everything with you soon! 🤩
⏰ Something SPARKLY is racing its way onto Netgalley! A quick stop off at the Acropolis Arcades (avoiding the Abyss of Eternal Despair of course…). ⏰ Eta 7pm this eve 😱
Helloo from Athens! Where I am taking Peregrine 2 around with me to see the sites, like a Normal Person (fantasy writer…)
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
📚✨ We're thrilled to unveil the nominees for the
#YotoCarnegies24
. These incredible authors & illustrators are making waves in the world of books for children and young people.
How many of the 129 nominated books have you read? 📖❤️
Explore the lists:
What a wonderful gathering of
@writementor
writers, agents and editors. Thank you to all who hosted and organised ☺️ and a special thank you to
@Melliver
for chairing
@NateLessore
and I in the debut panel ☺️ x
Just the best time at the
@writementor
conference - thank you to everyone who came, spoke, presented and took part - our writing community is a total joy!
John from
@Bookishcrick
and I having slightly tooo much fun with the proof-drop! 😝 Have you been to this bookshop? There is a SNUG! Also it is
@HelenJoC
’s local so I will be visiting A LOT 🍰 ☕️ Thank you so much Book-ish!
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
☺️
Dropped off a PEREGRINE QUINN PROOF (yes yes - they are REAL and very shiny! 💫) to Matt at the wonderful
@ChepstowBooks
this morning. My first ever proof drop and both he and Louise were so kind! 📚
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
☺️
Did you pick the white proof as your favourite
#PeregrineQuinn
proof design? This was the very first proof
@ashbwrites
unboxed and signed! 🤩
We did a super limited very early run of this design last year and only a few people can now call it their own - did you get a copy? 👀
Happy International Women’s Day… this team… I have no words.
@andoh_adjoa
‘s audio is breathtaking, and meeting her is a moment I will treasure (even though I was deeply uncool and just muttered about how brilliant Shakespeare is…).
I cannot wait for you to hear! x
If you guessed that the brilliant actor, director, writer and Lady Danbury herself
@andoh_adjoa
is the narrator for
#PeregrineQuinn
and the Cosmic Realm by
@ashbwrites
, you were correct! 🤩
We can't WAIT to share how fantastic she sounds...🎧✨
🔥Some pro-styling at
@yalc_uk
today with awesome YA super debut
@HelenJoC
🔥And yes I KNOW my rucksack is as big as a house. It’s my thing and I’m ok with it… 😅 luckily the fab
@HotKeyBooks
team looked after my giant bag AND gave me a fab new tote 👜 what legends. x
We are absolutely in love with the incredible
@twodots_studio
cover for
#PeregrineQuinn
by
@ashbwrites
, but how interesting is the design process behind creating this fantastic cover? 🤩
Video credit Katie Forman. 💫
Thank you so much to
@bellaeditor
and the Guppy Team! 🥳 I am so thrilled to be longlisted for a YA piece so close to my classical heart! I’ll be stepping back as now have an agent
@jcehare
💕, but will cheer on my fellow longlistees from the sidelines 🙌🙌 whoop whoop! ☺️
🐟KLAXON! We're super thrilled to announce the longlist for the 2022 Guppy YA Open Submission Competition! Head to the website for the full list - congrats to all the authors, it was a tough call this year, such high standard of writing.💛
And the first in the ‘ooo I used to work there!’ tour! Seeing the lovely Erin and Bex and not getting myself get lost in the wonderful
@waterstonesbath
☺️
Thank you
@WaterstonesKids
! It has been MAGIC to see all of the amazing window displays and to meet all the wonderful Waterstones booksellers who have been so kind!✨what an adventure.
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
Peregrine Quinn and The Cosmic World is
@ashbwrites
rip-roaring fantasy adventure which finds Peregrine Quinn racing against time to fix magic portals between worlds and rescue her kidnapped godfather, Daedalus Bloom...
Shop here:
@piccadillypress
🪽 Books are flying out! The
@piccadillypress
elves have been working (metaphorical) overtime this week! Thank you! So wonderful to see Peregrine out in the bookish world… 📚 ☺️
Ahh check out this immense
#bookpost
- thank you
@piccadillypress
@amberivatt
@ashbwrites
for this signed proof of Peregrine Quinn & the Cosmic Realm coming 25/4/23 for 9+. This Greek mythology adventure sounds truly unmissable & I’m SO excited to read this 📖
A little blog I wrote for the wonderful
@FCBGNews
about Peregrine and her role as hero/heroine. There is - I should tell you - much talk of Star Wars.
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm by Ash Bond
A bookshop day is not complete without sitting on the
@WaterstonesPicc
moon 🌙! Lots of signed copies of Peregrine waiting there now - and look 👀 a shelf talker! Thank you the lovely Sara for looking after us!
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
The wonderful Hannah at
@mrbsemporium
! A really cool kid overheard us talking and wanted to read it! Seeing as I couldn’t offer the book, I gave her some jelly beans. Win.
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
✨
Join Peregrine Quinn on a rip-roaring fantasy adventure, racing against time, and around the world, in Peregrine Quinn and The Cosmic Realm! We're thrilled to have the brilliant
@ashbwrites
here to tell us more!
Shop here:
@piccadillypress
👀📚Check out my APRIL 2024 Children’s Books I’m Most Excited About video over on my YouTube channel. Please subscribe!
📖🌟Each month, I put together
#ComingSoon
videos previewing my most anticipated children’s books releases to bump up your TBRs!
➡️
Chloe from
@booksonthehill
and I have been chatting online about Peregrine for a bit - so lovely to meet them in person finally! And
@booksonthehill
are moving to a BIGGER shop as this beautiful little space cannot quite contain all of their awesome!
@piccadillypress
Oops eyes shut! Luckily Holly
@GriffinBooksUK
is an absolute pro and took loads of pictures of us beaming at the Peregrine proof. What a gorgeous bookshop! Paperbacks piled like cakes… I could have stayed browsing for hours 🍰 📚
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
✨
Well here’s a bit of me… coming next April from
@bonnierbooks_uk
, PEREGRINE QUINN and the COSMIC REALM. Written by
@ashbwrites
, this is one for my GodsSquad - mythology with a modern makeover as Peregrine battles to save the cosmic realm… an epic adventure awaits xxx
I screamed “WHAT!” so many times just from the first 60 pages!! This world was not as I was expecting and such a welcome surprise! ❤️
Artemis Fowl x Percy Jackson 😱🤯
#ashbond
#peregrinquinn
@piccadillypress
So much talent in this room! Another fantastic
@UoBrisEnglish
Creative Writing Reading Event with postgraduates reading from their glittering works in progress. Thank you to all who came to share and to listen. More of these magic evenings please!
'a fast, funny fantasy with some devilish baddies and hi-tech gadgets'
@MailOnline
😈
Thank you Sally for the amazing review of Peregrine Quinn & the Cosmic Realm
@ashbwrites
@piccadillypress
I'm so happy with all the lovely support this debut is receiving ✨ out on Thurs!
What can you do with a Classics degree from St Anne's? Ash Bond (
@ashbwrites
) has signed a deal for a 3-book series of stories for young readers. Volume 1 comes out in 2024. The story starts in the Bodleian Library. Ash describes it as "a love letter to the Classics and Oxford".
I don’t know which is my favourite…. But I do remember getting to open a big box of the white ones and squealing…! (They are such gorgeous proofs!!
@lsobelTaylor
is magic✨)
Did you know that we created three different proofs for the launch of
#PeregrineQuinn
by
@ashbwrites
? 🤩
We are totally obsessed with all three, but which one is your favourite? 🧐
When I was a bookseller (!) we were always so envious of
@WaterstonesPicc
decorations - now I can just gaze in awe! Thank you for being so enthusiastic about Peregrine! 🪽☺️💫
@piccadillypress
I’ll just leave this comparison to Artemis Fowl here, so I can refer back to it any time I feel just the tiniest bit sad. HOORAY for funny MG fantasy! 🙌✨🙌 thank you Caroline!
@piccadillypress
@TheAgencyBooks
‘Things, of course, don’t go according to plan, even when they actually have one...’
@SchoolReading
has nailed both Peregrine’s plot AND my writing process… Thank you for such a fantastic review! And with classroom talking points too!
@piccadillypress
OK, I’m aware my screen needs a good clean BUT look how beautiful this programme is! ONE MORE WEEK! Talks by
@amy_historia
@ainokash
and many many other amazing folks… and readings by
@DQuinlivanB
and
@NoreenMasud
🌱 This is going to be Very Serious Academic Fun Time! 🙌