I'm still finishing my WIP at the moment, but this is a drive-by post to point you to the excellent Notes From The Slushpile, where the ferociously talented Teri Terry has done a guest post on the tricky subject of MAs in Creative Writing and whether they are worth studying for.

I was one of the people who had their arm twisted volunteered to ( Read more... )

I wanted to do a brief post sumarising the excellent DragonCon, which was held in Atlanta, Georgia on the Labour Day weekend (31st August - 3rd September). It was my second DragonCon - my first was back in 2008 because evidently I only seem to like doing it during Presidential Election years. First thing to say is that it's grown massively over the ( Read more... )

This is a drive-by post to let you know that I've put up an interview at The Enchanted Inkpot with Tom Pollock, who's the sickeningly talented author of the wonderful THE CITY'S SON. Interview is here so feel free to read and comment and if you like it, please do share ( Read more... )

The kind peeps at Penguin Books tonight played host to the latest event organised by the Children's Book Circle - Keeping Up Appearances: Authors And The Digital Age, which looked at how publishers, authors and illustrators can approach the exciting and scary on-line world that's rapidly taking the industry by storm ( Read more... )

The lovely folks at Hot Key Books hosted a Women In Digital Publishing event yesterday evening at their London offices and thanks to the divine Liz de Jager putting a head's up in the British SCBWI's Facebook group, I picked up a ticket and moseyed on along to check it out.

The moderator was Sara O'Connor, the Editorial Director (Print and Digital ( Read more... )

Tuesday 29th May 2012 saw the latest event in the SCBWI London's 2012 Professional Series at the Theodore Bullfrog pub near Embankment Station. Tonight's event focused on The Book Cover and the panellists were:

- Eleanor Updale, the multi-award winning of the MONTMORENCY SERIES and most recently JOHNNY SWANSON;

- David Fickling, the man behind ( Read more... )

This year's British SCBWI retreat was once again held at Dunford House in beautiful Sussex.


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This is just a drive by post to say that I've posted an interview with Jasmine Richards up at The Enchanted Inkpot if you'd like to go and check it out. She wrote the excellent THE BOOK OF WONDERS, which is well worth checking out - not least because it's got Sinbad in it. And everyone loves Sinbad ( Read more... )

Thanks to the lovely chaps at Simon & Schuster UK, I'm able to do a give-away of a wonderful apocalyptic novel THE AGE OF MIRACLES by Karen Thompson Walker.


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Tuesday 24th April 2012 saw the latest in the SCBWI London Professional series at London's Theodore Bullfrog pub near Embankment Station with:

- Bali Rai, a critically acclaimed, multi-award winning YA novelist, whose most recent book KILLING HONOUR was released in the UK in June 2011);

- Miriam Halahmy, whose debut YA novel, HIDDEN was launched ( Read more... )