Tag: Buttercup Magic
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18th May 2012
When 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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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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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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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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16th March
The Books that shape you I find it interesting that the things we like as children seem to really stick with us, and yet at times, in our grown up worlds, we can feel like we’ve lost touch with who we are, of the essence of who we were when we were young. I only have to look back to those…
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17th February
Not THIS one… but the one after I think it’s fair to say that there’s a strong feeling for most writers of wanting to be published… but perhaps ‘strong feeling’ isn’t strong enough – maybe ‘desperation’ is closer to the truth. That’s certainly how I have felt at times. Mostly, for me, it’s that feeling that I need confirmation that the hours I spend in my head…
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30th December
The Book of 2012! I can’t believe 2012 is almost here – where did 2011 go? I remember, as a child, my mum saying how time flew as you got older. It seems such a bizarre concept when you’re young, that the speed of time could vary according to your age. Those six week summers seemed more…