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My friend Louie Stowell is, like me, a bit of a geek.  She knows how much I love fables and fairy tales and things and subsequently sent me this:

http://www.dylanmeconis.com/outfoxed/

An incredible story, beautifully told and illustrated.

That’s all, folks!

Mirrored from Liz De Jager.

This heading genuinely does actually describe my life.  Oh, maybe throw in some food there too, just in case.

This Saturday past I met up with my good pall Sarah Bryars and we went off adventuring around town for our usual #bookchateating day.  We started, for a change, over at Waterstones Piccadilly where I bought 2 titles:

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Today I have nothing profound to say, except that I found (via Twitter) that someone had linked to this 30 Indispensable Writing Tips from Authors blog which made me grin.

I particularly like two of them:


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On Saturday past I got to moderate a panel of existing and debut YA writers at Blackwells in London.  I’ve never done anything like it, but thankfully, as I knew everyone on the panel, having read their books and having met them socially and am friends with some of them (all of them) things went smoothly and it was lovely and relaxed.


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Juliet and I thought it would be a cool idea to do an interview on my blog for other interested folks who are keen to know the how and why of agents.  I’ve now been part of Team Mushens for just over a week and it still is pretty surreal - so my questions to Juliet are still very much focussed on stuff we spoke about when we met and some stuff ( Read more... )

I have news, my friends.

I managed to land an agent.  It’s happened so quickly, so madly, so excitingly…and I’m still a bit “is this really real??” but she assures me it is.

The “she” in this case is Juliet Mushens (@mushenska on Twitter) of the Peters Fraser Dunlop Agency.  She read and loved Grimm and we met yesterday and she’s given me some ( Read more... )

It’s been so supremely busy recently, that I’ve not had the chance to blog.  I apologise. I’m sure you’ve missed me tremendously.

In between being busy, we’ve been on holiday to Marrakesh and it was pure magic.  And warm - dear heavens, it was warm and lush.  We loved our time there and I came away with some fabulous loot.  We stayed at Riad Miski ( Read more... )