I've been on the Zoom again! Having braved it once and suffered no ill-effects, I'm back with a book reading from Every Trick In The Book, which is the first in my Magical Bookshop series. This series, which I began last year in the midst of lockdown, is the light, fun, escapist mystery read I …
Doing a book reading is one of those things I've been meaning to get round to for a long time. So as it's World Book Day today, I decided to take the plunge and go for it. Not so that you can actually see me reading the book, you understand – after all, there are …
Continue reading It’s World Book Day – so here’s a book reading!
Phew! August 1 (how did that happen?) and I'm very pleased to report that Camp NaNoWriMo is done and the sequel to Murder At The Playgroup is in full draft! Here's the graph: My target was 50,000 words for the month, and in the end I wrote just over 53K to finish Murder In The Choir. The …
Continue reading Winner winner chicken dinner: CampNaNo 2017
This year I was invited to come to my kids' primary school on World Book Day and do a little talk about writing and how I get my ideas. My thoughts, in order, were: Great! I get to talk about writing! Ah. It's World Book Day. I need to dress up. Not that I have …
While I'm slowly getting used to reading aloud (see Things that go bump in the night and Reading aloud), I wouldn't say it comes naturally...
A few months ago, at Hallowe'en, I wrote about facing the fear and reading a story out loud for the first time at the local writers' group. Today I read out loud for the first time at a public event - the WayWord Festival in Chester. I was invited, with the other Cheshire Prize finalists, to …
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