A while back, I was watching the musical ‘Oliver’ with my (grown-up) kid when I suddenly thought how much fun it would be to write a spin-off of ‘Oliver Twist’. It took a couple of weeks of noodling around with ideas, till I came up with ‘Fagin’s Girl’, which is set just before the period …
Here’s the thing; authors mostly live inside their own heads, making up characters and lives and situations and stories that they hope people will enjoy reading about. And so we write our stories, let the publishers package them up and send them off to Shop-Land, and we’re back inside our heads with the next set …
Today I’m celebrating the 15th anniversary of ‘ALLY’S WORLD‘… Can’t believe how time has zipped by, but it really was fifteen years ago today that the first book in my best-selling ‘Ally’s World‘ series – ‘The Past, The Present and the Loud, Loud Girl‘ – was published. #faintswithshock #howcanitbethatlongago #erk! I set the series around …
