Hi everyone, I thought it would be a great idea to offer up some of my books to you lovely bloggers I will very shortly be seeing. I have a lot of books in the house and the hospital I usually donate to is inundated at the moment and my poor Mum looked like she would cry when I opened lots of lovely new books on my birthday and over christmas so here are the books I’m offering to bring up (I may need to bring a small suitcase… but hey!) Please please let me know if you want a book and I will strike it off and know to bring it as I don’t want to take books all the way to London no one wants. If I’ve already spoken to you about specific books they’re already in the […]

Just a quick note to say that email followers from the ‘old’ site have now been transferred over, but if you used to follow through wordpress.com and didn’t get an email about this post then I’m afraid you couldn’t be moved over and that if you wish to continue following you need to move to RSS/email over here. Anyone who had moved over to Feedburner and who has been transferred, I can deactivate your Feedburner and will go through both subscriptions later today to do this so you don’t have to. Thanks everyone for your continued support! Edit: All duplicate email subscribers have now been deactivated at feedburner so you’re only following once through wordpress. If you would rather receive your email through feed burner please comment or email me and unfollow through wordpress and I will reactivate your feedburner […]

One year ago today, on a train to university while reading an excellent YA book, I thought seriously about starting a blog. In the month or so before, I’d started really committing and opening up to the fact I wanted to write for children and young adults. It was a tough decision, but while I’d been writing general fiction at uni for three years, I felt a bit like I was going through the paces of what people expected from me. Then I applied for my MA in Writing, which I knew was the one for me over an MA English partly because of one module: Writing for Children and Young People. My tutor, a published children’s author in the UK and all-round awesome person, has really helped to inspire me and within a couple of weeks of the course […]