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30th April 2014
Read more: 30th April 2014A Surprising and Sparkly New Idea As those of you who read my last blog post here will know, my latest two children’s manuscripts have gone out into the big wide world of agents and I have been filling my time with lots of other things and giving the grey matter a bit of a…
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16th April 2014
Read more: 16th April 2014The Spaces In-between It’s almost Easter, the sun is shining and I am currently in a position very familiar to writers everywhere … I am in the space in-between – in-between my manuscripts being submitted and beginning again. Yes, my latest projects have flown the nest! The Box of Dreams, a fantasy/adventure for 9-12s, which I started…
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20th January 2014
Read more: 20th January 2014A Full tin of Quality Street It came to me the other day, two thirds of the way through my children’s novel, fourth draft, that my story was beginning to feel like a full tin of Quality Street, bursting with colour and flavour, instead of a third full tin with left over Strawberry Delights and…
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10th January 1914
Read more: 10th January 1914My first poem of 2014 My poems are nearly always spontaneous things and my poetry muse can be fast and furious or go on vacation for months. Regardless of which, I set up a ‘Poems (insert year)’ folder every year and by the end of each year have normally amassed quite a few. This one came…
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19th December 2013
Read more: 19th December 2013An interview with Jenny Alexander One of the great things about writing in the 21st century is the chance it gives we writers to interact with other writers. Writing can be a fairly solitary experience, and social networking has really opened this out, allowing writers to seek advice from, and inspire, one another, and just generally witter…
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16th December 2013
Read more: 16th December 2013Through the wardrobe Yesterday, I went to Narnia. Really. Truly. Would you like to know more? I’m sure you would. I hope you’re sitting comfortably. Many years ago, when I was a wee thing of around seven or eight and not very keen on reading, my mum would sit on the side of my…
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10th December 2013
Read more: 10th December 2013Everything’s a draft! As I sat in the car the other day waiting to pick the kids up from school, I pondered, as I often do. This is good pondering time for me, that is, if I manage to stay awake – pondering time has often become napping time! Not that I’m knocking napping time…
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26th November 2013
Read more: 26th November 2013A place to linger Welcome to my new webby. I love it. I liked my old one, but I like this one lots more. So, why a new website? Well, websites are very personal things aren’t they? They should reflect who we are, but also, as writers, I think they should reflect how we feel…
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23rd November 2013
Read more: 23rd November 2013Authors for the Philippines UPDATE on previous post (below): Bidding has now closed. Authors for the Philippines raised over £55,000 for the Red Cross Typhoon Haiyan appeal. Absolutely amazing and so proud to have been a part of this. Below: ‘Oliver and the Seawigs’ – one of the many books donated. Ooh, it’s been a…
