A Bad God's Guide to Winning Free Books

Featuring an incredible letter, Barnes pics and a giveaway!

Happy July, everyone!

If you’re new to this newsletter, I tend to share a mix of book news, ideas for Loki-based activities, doodles and the odd bit of Doctor Who fandom. (Sadly I don’t think we’ll be having any new Doctor Who for a while so I may have to switch to another fandom obsession to share with you all.)

This month I am running my first competition. Details at the bottom of the post.

First, I wanted to share an incredible letter I’ve had from a Loki fan. Thank you, Thomas, for writing, and for being the first person to write to me using runes!

Thomas also sent over some GREAT drawings. Poor Balder…or does he deserve it?

I absolutely love getting letters, drawings and emails, details about how to write to me here:

This month I’ve been on holiday and started writing Loki Book six (working title: A Bad God’s Guide to Monster Hunting) as well as taking Loki to Barnes festival. I’m from west london originally so I was familiar with Barnes but I’d never been to the festival. It’s magic! They had a wish tree, all kinds of stalls, and of course, many, many book events. The crowds were brilliant! The doodles were brilliant! I even met one reader who’s made his own Loki shirt!

The weekend festival funds a free schools programme. If you have a few quid to spare, it’s an incredible project, reaching thousands of children who wouldn’t otherwise ever get to meet authors or have access to book events.

Shout out to Helen Chapman who took pics and all the incredible volunteers who make the festival happen.

Speaking of pics, I just unearthed this from the vaults - an early character design of Valerie and Georgina. Can you spot what’s changed in their finished versions?

Now, you’ve read this far, you deserve a treat.

WIN A LOKI CLASS SET!

I am giving away a class set of 30 copies of the first Loki book. Here’s how to enter:

To be in with a chance of winning a class set (30 copies) of Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good for your school, simply reply to this newsletter with your name, job title and email address, and the postal address of your school, by Friday 18^th July 2025 at 11.59pm. The winner will be picked at random after the closing date and the set of books will be sent to the winner at the start of the Autumn term. UK only.

• No purchase necessary.

• Obscene or inappropriate entries will not be accepted and the Promoter reserves the right to reject any entries for any reason at its sole discretion.

• The prize offered is non-transferable and there is no cash alternative; in the event a prize offered is unavailable a similar prize of greater or equal value will be substituted.

• Only one entry may be made per email address account to each prize draw.

• Entries received after the closing date for each prize draw as stated will not be considered.

• The winner will be the first entry selected at random

• The winner will be notified within 30 days of the closing date via the given email

• The decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

• The rules of each prize draw shall be governed by UK law

• By entering a prize draw, an entrant is providing his/her personal data to the Promoter as “data controller”. We will use any data submitted by entrants only for the purposes of administering the prize draw and will not be shared with other companies except to the extent necessary to provide the prize and all data will be deleted following completion of the prize draw

Before I go, a reminder that you can preorder book five:

I’ll share more book 5 news nearer the time! Til then, stay chaotic, everyone!

Louie x