So everyone in the world seems to know and realise I am a fan about Moleskine notebooks. And by “fan” I mean stupidly obsessed about them. I have a LOT of them at home, all unused and most pristine without even being taken from their cellophane! As it stands, I have four of them in [...]
that is actually the short list… A great swathe of SCBWI British Isles members were watching the internet in panic this morning as the chosen UV list was due to be announced. I know, I checked at half past six this morning, over breakfast! And then news broke on Twitter. And it is fantastic news [...]
In my daily wanderings I always come across some utterly cool articles and comments by people I follow on Twitter and via my RSS feed. And I really should make more work of it to pass along bits of cool things I find on my site and not just on Twitter. 2012 will be a busy year [...]
Blackwood Manor from DBAOTD Mark and I watched DBAOTD yesterday. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. Probably more than I should have, as really it was a pretty standard script: 1. young girl travels to live her dad in a new home 2. the dad has a new love interest. 3. the love interest has doubts [...]
Mark and I both headed off to the Bullfrog for today’s Masterclass with Sarah O’Connor. Although Mark writes adult fantasy, he has got a notebook packed full of story ideas for younger readers. All of them deliciously dark and gory. Yum. We were a full house – 21 of us, I think. Sarah was lovely [...]
Today I received this: I am genuinely excited – I’ve been waiting for this set of moleskines to be released for a while now. The artist is Paul Wang and I just love the style of art on the covers. This is his blog and here is a cool interview with Paul. This is his [...]
