When Alice Jones: The Impossible Clue first came out, I wrote a short post on my top tips for writing a mystery for the Chicken House Blog (you can find it here). My last and final rule was to ‘play fair’ with your reader. It’s no fun reading a mystery when the author keeps a big clue … Continue reading
I may be away on holiday but my second book for 9s-12s is not, and today’s the day – The Dangerous Discoveries of Gully Potchard leaps into the world, running at full tilt. Hurrah! Continue reading
I am terribly nosy. Most writers are. We see shuttered windows, barred gates, or cars with tinted windows, and we sense stories writhing behind them. Curiosity comes with the territory. So you can imagine how I felt when I found out that, for one weekend only, more than a hundred private gardens in London would … Continue reading
Calling all detectives! Do you have a fashion mystery to solve during Paris Fashion Week? Are you chasing down a famous diamond that’s disappeared from a New York City fashion shoot? If so, then like my sixteen-year-old fashion detective, Axelle Anderson, in Model Under Cover, you might need a crash-course in fashion and style! … Continue reading
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