Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙 (@BooksandChokers) / X

Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙

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Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙

@BooksandChokers

Bestselling author. Screenwriter. Winner of Blue Peter & Overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize, 21. Emmy nominated #AKindOfSpark streaming on BBC iPlayer!

North London and Edinburgh

linktr.ee/ellemcnicoll

Joined March 2018

Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Jun 10, 2023
As an autistic kid, I loved drama. I thought I was a broken neurotypical as I struggled with people, and then thought I was a bad autistic because I liked imaginary worlds over STEM. Today it hit me again that we really did make a show about autistic girls, with autistic actors.
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Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Oct 11, 2021
GOT SOME NEWS, YOU GUYS! 🍾
The Bookseller
@thebookseller
Oct 11, 2021
Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark will be brought to UK screens in a live action series, following a partnership with BBC Children's and 9 Story Media. bit.ly/3mJW1YU
Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Jul 5, 2022
The Blue Peter Book Award has ended. As a winner, I'm sad. It gave children a vote and a voice and it was accessible to children who are not often included in literary spaces. The closure has led to me deciding to do something very stupid. I'm thinking of starting a prize.
Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Mar 24, 2023
It all started with a SPARK!! Trailer for #akindofspark, coming to UK viewers on the 31st of March on BBC IPlayer and BYUtv in April. So glad to finally share this with you all Coming to BBC IPlayer, @cbbc and BYUtv very soon! Don't the cast look incredible? So proud of them
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Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Jul 25, 2022
I was told "people like that don't read books, let alone write them". Today is the first day of shooting for A Kind of Spark: the TV Show. I'm not just a novelist now, I'm a credited screenwriter. No one tells me what I can and cannot be. And now no one can tell my readers.
Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Mar 4, 2021
I just said I'm a Neurodivergent author who writes for Neurodivergent children. Live on Blue Peter.
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Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Mar 30, 2024
in regards to the story of the child being excluded from the school picture by the photo company, I want to gently offer something, as someone who was in 'special' classes as a student, and has been knowingly living with a neurodevelopmental disability for some time. thread:
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Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Apr 24, 2021
Dad: People are starting to ask about your books while I'm out in the village, it's a bit disconcerting. I do want to have a bit of anonymity. I don't want them knowing where I live. **This is the window display he has made HIMSELF for the front of the house.
Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
May 15, 2021
Please don't ask for free stuff/copies of my book. I worked really hard on both of them. This is my job. I have bills to pay and people to take care of. "You can just send me a PDF" is also not a good response to being politely told I have no author copies to spare.
Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Mar 13, 2023
All right! Who would like to see some pictures from A Kind of Spark: TV? I'm doing it regardless. I also may have some moving pictures to show at some point soon. In the meantime, we've got witch-hunters, we've got sisterhood, we've got a small village set in their ways...
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Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Jun 5, 2023
New Book Announcement!! (And one I think some people have been waiting for) KEEDIE, the official prequel to #AKindofSpark is coming in April 2024. Available to pre-order now. We're going back to Juniper!!
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Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Mar 30, 2024
disabled children. you excluded disabled children. you erased them from the picture, don't erase them from your apology as well.
Tempest Photography
@HTempestPhoto
Mar 29, 2024
Statement from H Tempest Ltd htempest.co.uk/statementfromh…
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Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
May 1, 2022
Something made me sad last night Josh and I went for date night in Canary Wharf and, as someone with generous cleavage, the dress was date night appropriate. Out-of-office attire, not-working-as-a-children's-author-right-now dress. A woman at the next table gave me a dirty look
Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙
@BooksandChokers
Feb 8, 2024
Guys, we freakin' won!!! I just hugged @sueperkins Thank you, Broadcast Awards for awarding A Kind of Spark the Best Children's Programme! This is for neurodivergent kids and adults EVERYWHERE!!!!
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