Tag: Children’s writing

  • 7th June 2014

    Turning the writing switch to ‘ON’ I’ve been procrastinating a bit lately. I have a children’s novel to re-draft and have got as far as sketching out ideas for how to do this and that’s as far as I’ve got. I really should be working on it – after all, I’ve already spent two years writing it…

  • 5th May 2014

    The Grand Blog Tour! Firstly, I’d like to thank Jenny Alexander for inviting me to take part in the Grand Blog Tour this week. I’ve been following Jenny’s blog post for a couple of years – it’s one that I never fail to read as I find her posts thought-provoking and her observations inciteful. So, here’s…

  • 16th April 2014

    The 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…

  • 14th March 2014

    The Jitters! I am currently very close, very very close, to submitting, so I have the jitters. I always get the jitters at such times, and the jitters lead me to procrastinate and stick my proverbial head in the proverbial sand. So I have been sitting on my final alterations to the first three chapters of…

  • 20th January 2014

    A 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…

  • 19th December 2013

    An 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…

  • 19th June 2013

    Piccadilly, Puppies and a School Visit Tool Kit. Yesterday, I was in Burton on Trent at William Shrewsbury School doing school visitty stuff.  My publisher, Piccadilly Press, are now part of Templar Publishing and had put together a lovely promo poster here… Abi School Event_Poster Template  I love it, and it was great to see…

  • 11th December 2012

    A writer or a story maker? There’s a slight irony about the title of this week’s blog post, given that my now completed co-written novel is indeed called ‘The Story Maker’.  It’s easy at times, I think, to get submerged in all the writing malarkey that now exists, the marketing, the networking… and so on, and…

  • 11th May 2012

    Music 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…

  • 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…