We have invited Naomi Folb Of Forgotten Letters to write a guest blog post for us. This will be the first of many guest blogs.
Naomi has created a fantastic project and we do want you to get involved. Here is a video that explains more:
If you would like to download and read [...]
Continue Reading →1) Why didn’t you illustrate Lucy Willow yourself?
Because I have somewhat given up on illustration due to the fact there are too many books I wish to write and it takes me too long to illustrate a book. I am a slower illustrator than I am a writer and a terrible perfectionist and [...]
Continue Reading →Storytelling saved Sally Gardner, the bright and passionate author of the novel I, Coriander. As a child she was bumped from school to school, at one point ending up at an institution for maladjusted children straight out of Dickens, because neither her teachers nor her parents could understand why such a clever girl, with an [...]
Continue Reading →I have finally handed in the first edits of my new novel The Double Shadow to my publisher. Perhaps the best way to describe The Double Shadow is as a family sci-fi saga… ? It’s always rather nerve-wracking waiting to find out what your editor thinks about your manuscript edits. What more will she feel [...]
Continue Reading →I recently gave a speech to some prize winners at a school and it went down well – it was written for the losers as well as the winners. I thought I’d share it with you, too:
Today is a celebration for all of you prizewinners who’ve worked very hard and are being justly rewarded [...]
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