Storymix

We create superior quality, high concept book series for publishers and work with emerging and estab

11/05/2026

We have no idea how the judges have been able to choose between the books in our Discover category for the but what we do know is that we are so very proud to be sharing the shortlist with these titles.

11/05/2026

Well today is the day - The British Book Awards from the takes place this evening in central London and The Other Father Christmas 🎅🏾 has been shortlisted in the Discover category 🥳. We’re so proud of this title and all it’s achieved what ever happens tonight but we’ll keep everything crossed🤞🏾🤞🏾. The best of luck to and !

23/04/2026

🐴DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT🐴
We’re so excited to share that our project STABLEHEART by Nicci Johnson is coming from Simon & Schuster on 18 June 2026.
And book one, HELPING HERO, has just been picked for The Bookseller’s June Previews!
❤️Courage to ride. Strength to heal.❤️
Eleven-year-old Pres has been in foster care for as long as she can remember. Now she’s leaving her foster parents behind to live in the city with her eccentric Aunty Janelle, where she discovers Stableheart, a riding stables in the heart of the city, and meets Hero, a bay pony with secrets of his own.
Hero won’t let anyone touch him, let alone ride him. But Pres knows all about difficult pasts and soon an unbreakable bond forms.
The first in a contemporary horse series with a cast of characters you won’t soon forget.
Nicci Johnson is the pen name for the very wonderful Nicola Brooks-Williamson , a vet and ophthalmologist born to a Jamaican father and Trinidadian mother. Her middle grade novel The Little Witch from London was shortlisted for the FAB Prize 2021. She lives in Surrey with her husband and three sons, one of whom has special needs and whose cheerful outlook inspires her daily. The household is also home to a number of rescue animals.
Huge thanks to the team at and the Storymix storylining and editorial team including our consultant on looked after children. We can’t wait for readers to meet Pres and Hero.

17/04/2026

Our publishing arm - Storymix Books has been shortlisted for The Bookseller Newcomer Award at the 2026 Independent Publishing Awards.

We launched our first book as a publisher less than a year ago and so we most certainly do feel like a newcomer in this newcomer category - we’re very proud to make the cut! This is a record-breaking year for the IPAs. 68 nominations across 14 categories, the most in the awards’ history.

The judges said: “Storymix Books has spotted a clear need in the market and met it with a great concept. It’s bringing something different to children’s books.”

We’ve been a packaging studio for seven years (it’s actually our seven year anniversary on Monday 20th April), building stories and developing writers and illustrators who ho onto to launch their own careers. We became a publisher because some stories are too important to let go and publishing climate is not always making it easy to sell the stories we develop. This shortlist tells us we made the right call to risk it for the proverbial biscuit.🍪👌🏾

Congratulations to all the nominees. Winners announced at the OXO Tower on 29th April.

See you there. 🖤

14/04/2026

It’s US pub day for Destiny Ink: Sleepover Surprise by the brilliant 🇺🇸
Destiny is now available in hardcover across the US, published by and the American reviewers have fallen for her just like we knew they would.
Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly have all covered the book ahead of launch, with SLJ calling it “an engaging, wonderful addition to transitional chapter book collections.”
We developed this series with the wonderfully talented Adeola back in 2023, built around a simple question: what if what you drew came to life? Four books in, Destiny is now reaching readers on both sides of the Atlantic, and we couldn’t be prouder of what has been created.
If you’re US-based, you can grab a copy from , , Amazon and all good bookshops. If you know a young reader aged 5–8 who loves drawing, and stories about finding your brave - this one’s for them.
Happy book birthday, Destiny 🎉

01/04/2026

Gothic boarding school. A deadly competition. Five students whose real names might be the only thing that can save them…

We developed The Lost Name Society with the brilliant , writing as SR Krish, and we are buzzing to announce that has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, with publication planned for Halloween 2026.
Huge congratulations to Savita for bringing the scares and the heart in equal measure. To whose editorial work helped sharpen every twist. And to , who brainstormed early ideas with years ago at The Jam Factory (RIP)!
Thanks Hazel Holmes and the team at , the perfect home for this book.

13/02/2026

What a stunning cover for Princess (apparently) to be published by in August 2026! Thank you for your gorgeous artwork. Can’t wait for readers to meet the main character Della AND visit the stunning (fictional) Caribbean island of St Anthonique AND learn more about the island’s Black royal family who have reigned since the 18th century (and their secrets of course…). Summer can’t come fast enough - this funny, romantic and sweet teen novel which also tackles some important topics around identity and the environment is written by the extremely talented and is perfect for readers of Geek Girl, The Summer I Turned Pretty and The Princess Diaries!

13/01/2026

Out today in the US.

Oxford Blood by and published by

Oxford interview week. An elite college. A body on the steps.

When Eva’s best friend George is found dead, the pressure turns brutal and fast. With suspicion closing in, she has one week to prove she did not do it, inside an institution built to protect its own.

A Junior Library Guild pick, with a starred School Library Journal review, Oxford Blood is a dark academia murder mystery that cuts straight into race, power and class.

Congratulations to Rachael and the team at Wednesday Books, thanks to our US agent as well

01/01/2026

Goodbye 2025 and hello 2026. It was quite a year at Storymix with some amazing wins thanks to the amazing team of writers, illustrators, designers and publishers that we work with. Thank you 🙏🏾

24/12/2025

Whew! What a busy festive season we’ve had as the publisher of The Other Father Christmas. We want to say MERRY CHRISTMAS! We’ve worked with amazing people to get the book into the hands of kids and we’re super proud of the reach we managed for such a small outfit. There are so many people to thank for getting the word out there and that includes .eagleton and . And of course thanks to and

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