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15th June 2012
Read more: 15th June 2012Head space Mmmm, yes, head space… I’m not sure we writers get a lot of this. I think that the inside of my head, were the contents to be emptied, would look a bit like a huge pile of lego bricks, but with words on the side, all shapes and colours and in a complete…
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25th May 2012
Read more: 25th May 2012An Indiscriminate Moonlight Being a bit short of blogability time this week, I thought I’d post one of my poems, and a picture of me in my new funky writing specs… just because they’re new and they’re funky (aubergine with turquoise over the ear bits) and the words would be a lump of grey without them!…
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18th May 2012
Read more: 18th May 2012When the words come undone Just lately, life has got in the way of my words. She has shouldered in and jabbed me with her bony elbows, so that my usual daily word count has become my weekly word count… if I’m lucky! I would say that this is one of the few negatives of…
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11th May 2012
Read more: 11th May 2012Music to write to A few months ago, I wrote a guest post for We Love This Book, as part of their Music to Read by series (which you can read here.) At the time of writing that post, I kept thinking of music I wrote to, rather than music I read to, because, as…
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4th May 2012
Read more: 4th May 2012Derbyshire Literature Festival It’s always good as a writer to be involved in local activities that get children, and people of all ages, involved in literature, in a more pro-active way. We’re very lucky in Derbyshire to have a literature festival, held every two years in the county. There are some fab authors taking part…
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27th April 2012
Read more: 27th April 2012Diary of a launch day Yesterday, was the launch of ‘Buttercup Magic: A Mystery for Megan’, published by Piccadilly Press and aimed at 6-9 year olds. It felt like a triumph for me, my first mid-grade novel, and hopefully the first of a series. Thought I’d write about the day – the highs and the…
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21st April 2012
Read more: 21st April 2012Buttercup Magic: A Mystery for Megan Book Launch Thursday, 26th April – 3.30-4.30 at Clay Cross Library, Holmgate Road, Clay Cross, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Please come along… there will be lollies… and lots of copies of the book which I’ll be signing HUZZAH!
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20th April 2012
Read more: 20th April 2012One foot in another world With Buttercup Magic: A Mystery for Megan due for publication in just under a week’s time, I started thinking about why I’d written it. Why this book? Why this story? I can break it down into three reasons: 1) My own inclination to disappear into my own world appealed to me as…
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19th April 2012
Read more: 19th April 2012Buttercup Magic… The Mug of Destiny OOOOOOOH! Here it is then, the big moment! If you’re confused, wondering what the heck I’m waffling on about, see blog post 13th April… Ooh, Freebie… etc etc. So, Buttercup Magic: A Mystery for Megan, is officially out on 26th April, same day as my launch at Clay Cross…
