So, in a month’s time, Girls Heart Books will be no more. After writing a monthly blog here for the last three years, it’ll feel strange not to spend the 23rd of every month trying to come up with something interesting to blog about, the 24th getting it down on paper/keyboard, and the 25th pulling grandma faces … Continue reading
Girls Heart Books will close on May 1st this year. After being part of the site for almost 3 years, I’ve been feeling a little nostalgic and have started to flick through old blog posts. I was surprised to discover one that I never published. I’m not entirely sure why – I may have run … Continue reading
I am slightly addicted to Facebook and one thing I particularly love is its trick of telling you what happened ‘On This Day’ last year, or the year before or a gazillion years ago. I like the flashback to things I’d forgotten, and I like the reminder of how much things have changed. Recently, a link popped … Continue reading
I love birthdays. I particularly love book birthdays. And this time next week it will be the first birthday of my ‘Unicorn in New York’ series with OUP. The first book came out this time last year and I can’t tell you how fond I’ve become of Louie the Unicorn. I liked his dementedly optimistic personality from … Continue reading
“♫ ♪ We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas And a Happy New Year. ♫ ♪” I adore this time of year. It was my birthday yesterday (Christmas Eve), it’s Christmas Day today, and it’s my anniversary on New Year’s Eve. So, as … Continue reading
I’ve always been interested in politics, particularly women’s rights. It’s something I studied at university, and even when I’m lost in a land of unicorns, troll and mermaids, I still like to know what’s going on in the world. But, right now, I’m not convinced anyone knows. There is a general air of bafflement and confusion … Continue reading
Regular readers of this blog might remember that in August I put up a post called ‘DARE’, where I talked about the latest challenge I’d given myself – to perform a stand-up comedy show in a school before the end of the year. Well I did it! And it happened almost by accident. Because while … Continue reading
Hello. My name’s Rachel and I’m a school visit-oholic. School visits are one of my favourite parts of being a writer – they contain all the bits of teaching I used to love without the stress, or the marking, or the slightly intense parents. Since my first book, The Case of the Exploding Loo, came … Continue reading
A gazillion years ago I had a job in advertising. One of the mantras of the ad agency I worked in was ‘The good is the enemy of the great’. I heard that so often while I was working there I got a bit eye-rolly about it. But every so often I remember and it makes … Continue reading
Kids love to laugh. Everyone knows that. So, how hard can it be to bash out a book that makes kids’ giggle? As an author of funny (I hope) books for under 12s I’ve lost count of the number of people who’ve told me they have a formula for writing a bestselling children’s book. It usually goes … Continue reading
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