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I had a brilliant session with the book club again this week with chapters 5 and 6. We now also have a provisional title which I launched on the members today. There were lots of 'oooooooo's which I think is a good thing. The librarian had once again provided snacks - Iced Gems today - [...]

I've made it to week 2 which means I must have written two more chapters of my as-yet-untitled middle grade adventure *pats own back*. This week I couldn't do the normal school book club on Thursday. I offered to cancel but apparently nobody wanted to miss a week so I went in today instead. Very [...]

Those of you who already know me will be aware of my picture book proclivities and my wordcount comfort zone of 500 words or less. However, recently I have decided to flex a different writing muscle and try and finish something a bit longer. So I have written the first few chapters of a middle [...]

It was wonderful to return to Reading Waterstones for our final regular Picture Book Club. And even more wonderful to welcome multi-talented Leigh Hodgkinson; author, illustrator and animator. Leigh had come to talk to us about her book Pencil Dog (Simon & Schuster) which is out in paperback today (13th June 2019) after a successful [...]

We weren't able to hold our usual IRL Picture Book Club meeting in May due to unforeseen circumstances but we were incredibly lucky to get the chance to interview Simon Philip, author of a clutch of picture books including I Really Want The Cake and You Must Bring A Hat. The follow up to Cake [...]