Category: Blog
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4th May 2012
Derbyshire 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
Diary 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
Buttercup 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
One 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
Buttercup 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…
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13th April 2012
Buttercup Magic… OOOH! A FREEBIE! As some of you will know, I received a wee stash (HOORAY!) of my new book, Buttercup Magic: A Mystery for Megan, (HOORAY!) a couple of weeks ago, from my lovely Publisher, Piccadilly Press (HOORAY!) … okay, enough of that! It IS exciting though, and I never quite know when my…
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6th April 2012
Heptonstall – a place to be inspired Some of you may know that I have been gadding about a bit in order to write my current novel WIP. What I haven’t mentioned, I don’t think, is that this is a collaborative novel, which makes this whole project doubly exciting. The need to be out and…
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5th April 2012
LUCKY 7: seven lines from new works I have been passed my Lucky 7 by the lovely Laura Wilkinson, fellow writer and Twitter buddy, author of novel, Blood Mining. Lucky 7 is a bit of ‘blog fun’ for authors. Like Laura, this is my first time being tagged (Yikes!)… why am I thinking school playgrounds and getting ready to jab the…
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30th March
It’s all a matter of perception… isn’t it? (Part 2) If you read last week’s blog post, you’ll be expecting this… if you didn’t, ‘SURPRISE!’ Last week me and fellow tweep, Angie Shawcroft, painted a scene at Chatsworth, with surprisingly different results. This got me thinking about the whole idea of perception and style, and…
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22nd March
It’s all a matter of perception… isn’t it? (Part 1) Have you ever been writing a book, only to discover that another person has written a book with the same, or very similar, title? It’s a tad disconcerting. It’s now happened to me twice. It’s a scary moment as you race to find out the ‘blurb’…