My Year Five teacher introduced me to New Year resolutions. I suspect now, after a heavy couple of weeks of partying the Christmas school holidays away, he gave us the cop-out assignment so he could sleep off his hangover in a pile of PE bags in the adjacent storeroom. It was Spring term’s equivalent of the first day of Autumn …
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
See you all in 2012!
My Xanadu
I was sent a copy of ‘The Unforgotten Coat’ by Frank Cottrell Boyce from the Southbank Centre. Unfortunately, thanks to the plague ridden two-year-old who had used my son as a hanky, I wasn’t able to attend Frank Cottrell Boyce’s talk at the Southbank but I was completely captivated by his latest read. In fact I have read it twice …
The Dark Lord: The Toddler Years
I’ve just finished reading ‘Dark Lord: The Teenage Years’ by Jamie Thomson. This is an absolutely hilarious and completely bonkers novel about the Dark Lord and how he comes to be trapped in the body of a teenager, having been banished to the earth by his archenemy. He is taken in by the Purejoies family and begins life as thirteen-year-old …
Mr Jedi Spreadsheet Man
I recently sent my manuscript off to a publisher. I heard it can take up to six months to hear something (if anything) back. I’ve also heard the best way to stop incessant inbox-checking for a reply or constant curtain twitching for the postman is to start a new project. I was quite sure that I had enough self-restraint for …
Bleugh, ha, ba, baa, bleughy, blog!
Six months ago, my 12 month old son and I were having a deep and meaningful over a cup of tea and a breastfeed, discussing my venture in to the world of children’s books. I had been writing seriously for a year prior to this moment and writing for the hell of it since I was given my first crayons …