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We popped out to go and see Mirror Mirror earlier today.  It’s charming, funny, sweet and quite dark.

Julia Roberts (not my favourite actress in the world) is sublimely calculating and mean and sarcastic.  I thoroughly approved of her as the Queen.  Lily Collins - whose eyebrows look like angry caterpillars - did a credible job of being the heroine ( Read more... )

It’s been a little while since I blogged.  Mostly because I’ve been a lazy cow.

The problem at the moment is New! Shiny! Ideas! that keep distracting me.  Also, bizarrely, I’m not sleeping well.  Also, I’ve not sat down with my moleskine notebook to make notes on any of the New Shiny Ideas and that’s unlike me.  And I think I’m reading far too many ( Read more... )

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A few things.  I’m a Neil Gaiman fan.  I know, who would have thought it.  But last year I spent a bit of money and got myself a copy of his Adventures in the Dream Trade, mostly because I remember it had some great poems in it. And there is a poem he call’s A Writer’s Prayer which I love.  Here is a snippet of it:


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Dear me! It’s been a busy start to 2012 and I think it’s going to be a pretty damn exciting year.

First up, my name in print from the Undiscovered Voices anthology - an honourable mention:


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Sadly, I am not on the shortlist for this year’s Undiscovered Voices.  HOWEVER, two really good friends of mine are, so eventhough I was upset for maybe a day, I can’t help but be excited and over the moon for them.  Here is the list - I am so proud of them! Some I know from other workshops through SCBWI and the conference and the agents party but ( Read more... )

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We popped up to Oxford by Oxford Tube bus on Saturday to meet some friends for lunch at a place called Atomic Pizza.

Atomic Pizza comes highly recommended.  We ate and ate and ate and laughed and chatted.   And we commented on the decor and chatted to the owner who was wearing a t-shirt with the Inigo Montoya speech:

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