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Tag: books for kids

Posted on October 16, 2020December 23, 2020

Dressing your Characters. Why Clothes Matter!

How you dress your characters makes a huge difference to your story-world.

Posted on September 30, 2020

How I Became a Kidlit Author, and How I Can Support Your Kidlit Dreams, too

Early in the 1980s when I was working as a nurse, I decided to write a children’s book.The first story I wrote was about a rat. A rat that lived inside a muddy riverbank, wore a suit and —worked in the stock market (go figure). I think it was some kind of Wind in the Willows rip-off.I …

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Posted on June 17, 2020June 19, 2020

I don’t want to go back. Not ever.

In many ways, the world before C19 feels dull, harsh and STUCK. Why? Because it feels like now, finally, after the brutal and wildly complex lessons of the virus, we are shaking off a shitload off shackles. We are shaking off complacency. And ignorance. And arrogance. Consciously and with vigour. Ordinary, good-hearted, fed-up people AND …

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Posted on October 16, 2019

Why My Depth Year Failed. Plus, My New E-Course!

  So dear reader, you might remember I wrote about my Depth Year here and here. (Just wanna know about the new e-course? Scroll to the bottom, sunshine!) To recap, mine has been a Low Buy Depth Year. What does that mean? I committed to going deep with what was important to me and letting …

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Posted on August 10, 2019August 10, 2019

writing, publishing, decorating…

WTF? Yes, dear reader, I do still blog! In fact, I've missed it (and YOU) desperately. Sometimes, I think blogging is my favourite form of writing. I love the immediacy, the intimacy, the ongoing relationship. And I LOVE all the pretties. So, Elsie's makeover. Of late it has ground to a halt. Because... WINTER. Holy …

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