This is my last blog for GirlsHeartBooks 😦 and I’m really going to miss saying hello to you each month. I’ve been looking through my old posts and seeing if there’s anything helpful I can leave you with. Lots of my posts have featured my dogs, first Traffy, then Bella and now Freya. All of … Continue reading
Over the last couple of months my posts have been about writing competitions and I’ve just found another one for you that looks very much worth entering. All you have to do is carry on this story starter to make your own story of up to 1000 words: ‘The night we left was wild, … Continue reading
Quick quick quick – less than 2 weeks until the closing date for this year’s 500 words competition so get out that pen (if you haven’t already). If you’re aged between 5-13 there’s still time to enter an amazing story (until the 23rd Feb) and win loads of prizes. Here’s how you enter and you can … Continue reading
Are you over 16? Or do you know someone who is? Do you like entering competitions? Is this the year you’re going to published? Or re-published? Is this the year you create the cover of a prize winning book? (You need to be over 18 for the illustrator one.) Floris Books has two brilliant competitions … Continue reading
Whenever I take my dogs for a walk in town my puppy Freya thinks I’m taking her on a food hoover. There’s so many tasty things to find on the pavement and although I say ‘leave it’ and she does mostly some tasty things are too much to resist. Especially when there’s lots of things … Continue reading
Next week my golden retriever puppy Freya has been invited to be part of a ceremony at the Animals in War memorial to commemorate the animals that lost their lives in Wars and Campaigns. And I’ve been invited to go along with her and read a little bit from my books about animals in … Continue reading
Every now and again (usually when I’ve got a new book out) the lovely people at Puffin ask if I’d like to do a week long book tour visiting schools around the country to launch the book. This time the tour, back at the end of September, was for The Great Fire Dogs and there … Continue reading
Some people prefer to rehearse a lot before they give a performance and some are more comfortable just ‘winging’ it. The first way can lead to a polished professional performance, or not. The second way to a natural and friendly one, or not. I think live and rehearsed performances are a bit like writers who plan out their stories meticulously before … Continue reading
I’ve just received an advance copy of my next book ‘The Great Fire Dogs’ to be published by Puffin at the end of August and sent it straight off to Zach because I loved his letter about my books and his dog 🙂 It doesn’t feel like very long ago I was going through the … Continue reading
For stories to be exciting a character needs to be out of their comfort zone, either by choice, or more often by force! Last Saturday I did something that was definitely out of my comfort zone that I’d never done before – I ran the 5k Pretty Muddy Run for Cancer Research in memory of my … Continue reading
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