It’s my last post and I’m sorry to say goodbye. So sorry that I’ve been putting off writing it. Now it’s super late and I’m racing against the clock and just realised (at 9.30 a.m) that I didn’t press the right button last night, so that’s why this is overdue! Mulling over what to write … Continue reading
At a bookish gathering recently, Sheena Wilkinson talked about the importance of her ‘tribe’, the warm and welcoming group of children’s authors I’m proud to be part of.Sheena’s right of course. Writing can be a lonely business, and hanging out with people who know all about that can be very special. Last weekend, I attended … Continue reading
It hardly feels like a week since my last blog let alone a month! That’s because it’s been a really busy few weeks since getting the last notes on ‘Fenn Halflin and the Seaborn’ (to be published in July) and school visits for World Book Day, where I’ve been running workshops to help children write … Continue reading
I have a writing space. And I’m quite fascinated by other writers writing spaces. I don’t always write in my writing space, but I do always use it for editing. It’s a place to retreat to away from the rest of the house and the rest of the world. Although I can hear the neighbours come … Continue reading
For me, Christmas is all about tradition, when you blindly do things the same old way, just because that’s the way you’ve always done it. (I try hard not to live like that for the rest of the year!) Every family has its own traditions, many of which seem very strange to me. One of … Continue reading
At the start of The Impossible Clue, before she’s caught up in the case of a disappearing scientist and a missing invisibility suit, Alice Jones is working on a much more mathematical mystery. “I was trying to prove Goldbach’s Conjecture, but I wasn’t getting very far. Maybe it was the fact that it hadn’t been … Continue reading
Don’t be silly, I hear you say – pink is for girls – everybody knows that! Well, maybe, but it wasn’t always so. Listen to this – “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more … Continue reading
Hello again – Ben Davis here for my second post at Girls Heart Books. I thought that as my first post (which you can find here) was an overview of how I became a published author, my second should be about how my personal experiences have influenced my writing. Now, when I first had the … Continue reading
So today is my day to blog on Girls Heart Books- the 14th of every month, a date by now as engrained in my mind as my own birthday. Which makes it even more embarrassing that I FORGOT. I could blame editing deadlines- yup, I’m currently on two of those. I might mention spending the … Continue reading
My next book, Time after Time, should be hitting the shelves any day now. (Yay!!!!) I’ve always loved the idea of time travel, so sending my young characters, Molly and Beth, back to the past seemed like a wonderful idea – except for all the difficulties. I encountered lots of questions. Here are a few: … Continue reading
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