It's been an interesting few weeks, hasn't it? We're all coping with something which, frankly, I could never have imagined. First of all, I'm not complaining. So far, my family's doing OK. The grown-ups are still working, the kids have been studying (as far as I can tell!). Most importantly, we're all well. Of course …
Continue reading On finding a new writing routine when your old one collapses
She's back! And this time, Maisie may or may not be riding an elephant... Maisie Frobisher has arrived in India - in Mumbai to be precise, or Bombay as it was in the 1890s - and she'll get quite a culture shock when she steps off the boat... I'm delighted to launch Maisie book 2 …
Continue reading Prepare to launch! Maisie Frobisher is Off the Map…
In this episode, three The Ends which aren't, really. On Wednesday I finally got my butt in gear and ran 5K (with much complaining). I'd got to about week 7 of Couch to 5K, and had stuck there for ages. I had gone out running, but with a friend, and not following the programme. So …
At least I'm getting in with the new year's goals post quicker than I did last year! I won't get into whether it's a new decade or not because people will start squabbling, so let's move along. Here's a recap of last year's goals: Work smarter, not harder Try some new things Get fitter 2019 …
Here comes Maisie! And typically, the paperback arrived fashionably late to dinner yesterday evening... All At Sea is the first in a new series, the Maisie Frobisher Mysteries, which I'd describe as adventure mystery. Maisie Frobisher popped up originally in the Caster & Fleet books, but you don't have to have read those first. Early reviews …
Continue reading Prepare to launch! Maisie Frobisher is All At Sea…
Well, I did say I'd do another update on Maisie before the end of the year, and here it is! And behold, it's a series, the Maisie Frobisher Mysteries! Take a look at the covers... Regular readers may have noted that I've been mentioning a spinoff to the Caster & Fleet series for a little …
Continue reading Announcing a new series: the Maisie Frobisher Mysteries!
It's taken a while to come to fruition, but here is my first children's book, A Christmas Carrot! A Christmas Carrot is a humorous story very much inspired by - you've guessed it - A Christmas Carol, and retold for 4-8 year olds in picture-book form. I did the words, and Zoe Harmon has provided the …
Continue reading Hold the rosemary: announcing A Christmas Carrot!
And then we came to the end... Of the book, that is, not NaNoWriMo. As with book 1 in this series, the end rushed up at me. I'd left my protagonist Maisie Frobisher in rather a sticky situation the day before, and I knew I needed some careful plotting to get her out of it …
I've been meaning to write this post for at least a week now, but life and more particularly events and book launches have got in the way. But now here I am, and having got my words for the day done, I have a bit of space to talk about NaNoWriMo. Or NaNoDicto, as it's become …
The first draft of the first Maisie Frobisher book (now provisionally titled All At Sea) has marched to its conclusion! Literally, as I've been dictating it on walks. I had planned to finish the book today, but as it turned out the book had other ideas, and demanded to be finished on Friday. It drove …
