books for kids about families, friendship, feelings and funny stuff
1. I am not dead! But I have been pathetically quiet lately, due to the typey parts of my brain being busy with TWO honking great book deadlines. 2. I have met my deadlines! Both of them! Whole bookfuls of words with beginnings and middles and ends and everything. 3. EXCITING NEW BIT: one of… Continue reading Five Things
Like most Brits, I've been filling in my census form this week. (What is your job title? WRITER. Briefly describe what you do (did) in your main job. WRITING.) I dithered more over the 'how many hours a week do you work in this employment?' question. In the last two weeks, I've written barely 500… Continue reading Fuel
Writers are a funny bunch. Half the time we think we're chocolate: we have to, to believe we can fill up that big blank page, that we have something to say, a story to tell that we can tell better than anyone else. The other half we spend in a state of eye-poking misery, staring… Continue reading Wheat or Chaff?
