*Eek!* My newbie book – ‘St Grizzle’s School For Girls, Goats and Random Boys‘ will hit the shops very soon… next week, to be precise! And there’s nothing like an early review to make an author feel like tap-dancing across the kitchen floor, scaring the cat! (Sorry, Dizzy…) I’m loving the illustrations in it, by Becka …
Wow, it’s been quite a week for ‘CATCHING FALLING STARS’, my evacuee novel, which came out last year. First, on Tuesday, I visited Redwood Primary in Lincoln to do some workshops based on the book, only to discover the Year5&6s had used it for their WW2 topic and had done some amazing work around it. …
Want a sneak peek of my next book, which isn’t out till Jan ’17?!? Well, here’s the shiny, new cover of ‘ST GRIZZLE’S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, GOATS AND RANDOM BOYS’, illustrated by Becka Moor, who’s a little bit brilliant. Do you like it? Hmm? Fingers crossed you do! (If you fancy pre-ordering it then you …
Yep, it was time for a spring-clean (er, summer-clean?), so here you are, gazing upon my all-new, easy-to-mooch-around website! I’ll be blogging here regularly, so do check in now and again to see what interesting/weird/dumb stuff I’ve been posting. For example, I’ll be telling you what I’m up to, giving sneak peeks into my writing …
‘The Whispers of Wilderwood Hall’ is my latest book and is out now… it’s a slightly spooky time-slip novel, set in a mysterious old mansion in the wilds of Scotland, which becomes home to thirteen-year-old Ellis and her kooky mum Sadie. Since most of the action in the book takes place in and around Wilderwood …
Super-famous author Cathy Cassidy and I have a lot of overlaps; both of our first jobs were with Scottish newspaper and magazine publisher DC Thomson, we’re both life-long vegetarians, love lots of similar books, and are pet-adoring animal-holics. Living in different parts of the country, Cathy and I don’t get the chance to meet up …
Or to be more exact, my new (short) novel ‘The OMG! Blog’ is out now. It’s published by Barrington Stoke books, who also publish my quick reads ‘Candy Girl’, ‘Running From The Rainbow’, ‘Sweetness and Lies’, ‘The Girl With the Sunshine Smile’ and last year’s ‘Honey and Me’. All the authors and illustrators who work …
My new book, my 80th book to be published, my first novel with a historical setting… however you want to describe it, CATCHING FALLING STARSis officially OUT TODAY!! I have gone wild and had a Ferroro Rocher to celebrate (stolen from my daughter’s sweet stash – shhh, don’t tell!). I’d like to thank my lovely editor …
There’s lots of great coverage of VE Day on the news at the moment, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. And my soon-to-be published novel ‘Catching Falling Stars’ – the story of evacuees Glory and Rich – features a VERY special VE Day party… The book is officiously in bookshops on Thursday 4th …
It’s ‘Life According To Alice B. Lovely‘, who’s gone from gold+red to green+blue. And the new-look version is out TODAY! (Tooters! Streamers! Party hats!) So which do you prefer? There are aspects of the old cover that I’ll miss, but the new cover works SO well with ‘The Girl Who Wasn’t There‘, and my – …
