Tag: Ruby and Grub
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Mixing It Up!
26th May 2015 Three months into a house move that has yet to actually happen, I am trying to get on with life as normal, ignoring the boxes and the overall appearance that my house has just been burgled, and throwing myself into a variety of arty stuff! For my latest piece – just finished…
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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…
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27th February 2013
WORLD BOOK DAY! Oh yes, it’s that time of year again, and I LOVE IT! World Book Day this year is on 7th March. There are games, resources and a book review competition on their official website (see link above) and you can also follow them on Twitter here. World Book Day, which sees events all over…
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17th August 2012
Where is Grub? Many of you will know about the Ruby and Grub books (well, I hope so… I’d like to think you do), written by yours truly and illustrated by Sarah Warburton, some of whose work you can see here, and published by Piccadilly Press (@PiccadillyPress on Twitter) The series of three books, aimed at 2-6yrs,…
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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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2nd March
How to get cream-crackered and a lump in the throat at same time Firstly, for non UK readers, cream-crackered is slang for… erm… very tired, exhausted, wrecked… that kind of thing. School visits do that. They are also decidedly lovely, for many reasons. I’ve done a few now, but this week’s visit, in celebration of World Book…
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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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4th November
Launching Grub’s Pups Okay, so the date for publication of Grub’s Pups was closing in on me, and I had this idea… why don’t I have a book launch? Then I had this other idea… no, let’s not, too scary. I’ve been here before you see, and talked myself out of the thing. I’ve just…
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14th October
Knowing your characters I’ve had a fair few chats with fellow tweeters lately about the different, or similar, ways in which we write and how we develop character, which has prompted me to write this post. When I think about my writing, most of it is character driven and plot considerations come later. This may or may…
