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12.
August
2021.
NEWS:Best-selling middle grade fiction Baller Boys sequel confirmed for 2022

Good morning,
We are sending you some positive and exciting news from the publishing world this morning - the best-selling, prize-winning, Diverse Book Awards longlisted, middle grade, children's book for reluctant readers, Baller Boys, is due for release in a second edition with bonus content for students and teachers. Plus the sequel is officially confirmed for release in 2022 - great news for the many young fans out there!
Please see the press release below for more information. Indie publishers Hashtag Press and author Venessa Taylor are available for media interviews and comment.
Thanks,
Diana Ashlee
PR & Marketing Manager
Literally PR 

PRESS RELEASE

 

Hashtag Press confirms eagerly anticipated release of sequel to Baller Boys

 

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, 12thAugust 2021: We are kicking off the day with an exciting announcement for the many Baller Boys fans out there! The female-led indie publisher dedicated to diversity and inclusion in publishing has confirmed that the second book in the Baller Boys series by Venessa Taylor will be released in 2022. This book continues to score goal after goal, winning won The Peoples' Book Prize Children's Fiction Award in 2021 and last month making it on to the longlist for The Diverse Book Awards 2021.

 

And what's more, a second edition of the first, best-selling Baller Boys (first published in May 2020) will be released in time for Christmas... packed with new bonus content. Baller Boys is a ‘Teachers' Pick' on Amazon, and author Venessa Taylor worked as a former Literacy Lead in an inner city Primary School. She's now a regular author visitor in schools, libraries and hospitals (Venessa will be visiting children at Great Ormond Street Hospital later this month for example), so Hashtag Press plans to include content created specifically to support for teachers, parents and carers, as well as a new quiz for students to enjoy.

 

Despite a shaky start, launching in the early stages of the first lockdown, when bookshops were closed and the pandemic was causing myriad problems in the publishing trade, the book, illustrated by Kenneth Ghann, quickly found its home with an army of young fans, particularly reluctant readers and boys. With an online launch event on Instagram featuring World Cup legend Bukayo Saka who was interviewed by Venessa Taylor, the first Baller Boys book has gone from strength to strength at every stage of the game. We are so excited to share more news about the next edition of Baller Boys and the sequel to this best-selling middle grade book with you in the coming months!

 

Signed copies of the second book in the Baller Boys series is available to pre-order viawww.hashtagpress.co.uk/shop.

 

Media enquiries:info@literallypr.com

Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis (Co-Founders of Hashtag Press) and Venessa Taylor (author of Baller Boys) are available for media interview and comment upon request. Press copies of Baller Boys are available too - please get in touch for more info!

 

www.hashtagpress.co.uk

@hashtag_press

@venessatwrites