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 [...]
Last night I hosted this year’s SCBWI British Isles Agents Party at the Theodore Bullfrog pub in London. By all accounts it was a success. The agents who agreed to attend the evening were incredible and did an amazing job at keeping all the SCBWI members spirits flying high. Next year I think we will [...]
This is my big question for the past few days. What is it about the weather changing that makes me want to do craft things? Now that we are experiencing, not just grey dull days, but also colder days, my mind is turning to making things. I used to be a very creative child. I [...]
..that I am a big Guilermo del Toro fan. Last week I was feeling poor and sorry for myself, having hurt my back and not being able to move well. This meant of course indulging in doing very little and thankfully, even at work, things were quiet. However, Twitter is always a buzz with excitement. [...]
I wish I can say that I’ve been a superbly studious girl and that Grimm is edited (on screen) and ready to go to agents. But it’s not. It’s about half-way there. It’s all marked up on physical paper in scary red ink with wild and vivid slashes and crazy explanations like: “fix this, what [...]
