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✨ Strategy, campaigns and design for learning brands @mayknagency
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The little mice are officially on the move 🐭📬

ARCs are being packed up and sent out into the world, and we can’t wait to hear what our first readers think.

Ready to enter the Donor Zone?

LITTLE MICE by Tara Crowe arrives September 29 (US) and October 1 (UK)

#LittleMice #YADystopian #DystopianBooks #Bookstagram #BookRecommendations

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Nonfiction book marketing doesn’t need to be dry.

Learn more about how we used an influencer campaign, experiential marketing and a live, in-person event to bring the bestselling ‘How to Kill a Witch’ (@witches.of.scotland, @octopus_books_) to life for new audiences – creating a cultural moment and building authentic BookTok buzz.

@_bookmachine | #MarketingAgency #Nonfiction #BookMarketing

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Some worlds are built on sacrifice.
Some secrets are written in blood.

Welcome to the Canopy.

“Little Mice” by Tara Crowe arrives September 29 🐭🩸

#LittleMice #YADystopian #BookTokBooks #DystopianBooks #CoverReveal

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Why do children love reading?⁠
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Young readers share what books mean to them, from discovering new worlds and characters to finding stories that make them laugh. ⁠
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Reading for pleasure helps build imagination, creativity, confidence and empathy. Encourage a child in your life to pick up a book this summer and join the #SummerReadingChallenge. Just visit your local library to find out more or sign up online at summerreadingchallenge.org.uk⁠
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#ReadToTheBeat #NationalYearOfReading2026 #GoAllIn2026

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AD #PhonicBooksPartner

🌋I’m *seriously* impressed with the recently published Against the Odds series, having read the top three of these six titles so far. Each presents a single story or collection of three stories, featuring children caught in some of the most famous disasters throughout history.

🌋 Though fictional, they draw on actual events and are filled with peril and emotion, drawing readers into these very human stories, with brilliantly appealing covers by Paulo Ulises Serrano.

🌋Aimed at children aged 10-14 who are reading below their age level, these ‘high interest, low reading ability’ (hi-lo) stories bridge the gap between truly decodable books and mainstream chapter books by focusing on prefixes, suffixes, and base/root words.

🌋Readers are empowered to confidently understand meaning from text alone, and the focus on morphology means spelling and comprehension are scaffolded throughout.

#AgainstTheOdds #MountOlympusMysteries #MorphologyBooks #ReadingIntervention The same image with:

A fantastic hi-lo series for engaging 10-14 year olds whose reading age is below their actual age.

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life lately ✨📖🌸🍑🌤️

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LAUNCH EVENT 🥂

Last week, we celebrated the launch of Maykn to a room full of leaders, thinkers and creators within marketing and the Learning Economy. People who believe learning should move culture forward and, like us, think marketing should earn attention with integrity.

Attendees joined us from nonfiction, children’s and educational publishers, academic presses, museums and cultural organisations, learning platform and resource providers, schools, higher education institutions and literacy programmes to consider the role we can all play in making learning a part of culture, and how we can inspire lifelong curiosity through our missions, messaging and campaigns.

Thank you to everyone who braved the heat to join us – and especially to our insightful speakers Seshni Jacobs (@hachettelearning), Rose Luckin (University College London & Educate Ventures Research) and Hugh Viney (@joinmva) for helping us to spotlight the mission behind Maykn. 👏

Photo credit @boydvisuals

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Maykn Notes 🗞️

The very first issue of our quarterly print newspaper offers a glimpse into the world of Maykn – our work, our partners, our mission and our impact.

Featuring @readingagency, @joinmva, @octopus_books_ and insights from our team of marketing, publishing, culture and education experts.

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Sustainability in publishing is a genuine and growing challenge, involving paper, print runs, shipping, and end-of-life recycling.

→ A typical paperback produces ~1kg CO2e; recycled paper and full sell-through can reduce this to ~400g
→ “Book miles” - the distance a book travels from printer to reader, is a significant part of the footprint → Paper can account for 40%+ of a book’s production cost
→ Ivy Kids (Quarto) prints every book on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, as locally as possible,a rare example of genuine structural change

Publishing has a paper problem, and the industry is only beginning to seriously reckon with it.

Reference - Phillips, A. and Clark, G. (2024) ‘Design and production’, in Inside Book Publishing. Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003403289-9

#sustainability #recycle #publishing #books #fyp

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3 short, sharp, devourable stories that push the limits of the known

#lilfactory #sciencefiction #SFF #scifireader

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Literature meets art in these stunning hand numbered editions from Li’l Factory, a small publishing house that focuses on Science Fiction and Fantasy stories that find no other home

3 short, sharp, devourable stories that push the limits of the known

Head to the link in my bio to check these beauties out

#lilfactory #sciencefiction #SFF #scifireader

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(Ad) What was the last science fiction book you read? These incredible novellas from @lilfactory are the perfect read for any science fiction fan. From androids having an existential crisis to a brain fruit seeking a host, these stories take you on journeys you will never forget. Not only that, they are all limited edition, hand numbered hardbacks with stunning screen printed covers.

I really enjoyed all three of these novellas. Swipe to read my reviews....

Burns by David Polfeldt gets four aliens out of five. I absolutely loved the droid & his philosophizing. This is a good honoured piece of sci fi exploring what it is to be human & potentially alone in such a vast & unfriendly universe.

Four out of five aliens 👽👽👽👽

Brain Fruit by Stephen Oram gets four out of five brains. This is a truly original story about relationships , forming new ones & learning to trust others from the awesomely weird perspective of a symbiotic, part organic, part machine perspective.

Four out of five brains 🧠🧠🧠🧠

Mimeograph by Eira A Ekre & my fav of the three, gets a solid five out of five printers. This beautifully written story delves into our relationships with each other alongside our growing dependence on technology & what that will mean for mankind. I absolutely loved this story!!

Five out of five printers 🖨️🖨️🖨️🖨️🖨️

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