Two things, both of which are true; 1) Tomorrow I am talking to this years crop of apprentices from the Adventures in Fiction scheme, http://www.adventuresinfiction.co.uk/ if you’re interested, the title of the talk is Building and Sustaining a Long Term Career as a Writer, I know, I am at the pre talk stage where you… Continue reading
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The 1970s, Gun Fairs, Limehouse Basin and Herons
I have to finish this script! So excuse me while I am stuck in the 1970s. That’s my excuse for not posting, but I do have a lot on as well….What’s that? I hear you say, weeeeell, I’ve started as a Royal Literary Fund fellow at the University of East London, which you’d think, since… Continue reading
Skin Deep by Malaika Rose Stanley
Skin Deep is a perfect early top Juniors, or lower secondary school story. It is just right for those sensitive girls who love the younger range of Jean Ure, Karen McCombie, or Jacqueline Wilson novels. It’s a light, quick, read, but with enough depth to make the reader laugh and cry. The ending moved me… Continue reading
Foundlings, Ghosts, and History Girls
I went to the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury yesterday, probably the hottest day of the year so far. The Year Six students from Richard Cobden who have been reading A Nest of Vipers, were fabulous, they knew loads about everything and made some brilliant stories of their own after looking round the exhibits. I don’t… Continue reading
The Nine of Swords
Have been too busy blogging eleswhere, at The History Girls; http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2011/08/brief-digression-on-london-mob-now-also.html and at Awfully Big Blogl; http://awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.com/ to blog here. But things are getting better, I’ve loads of good news including two new projects finding a home as well as a new book out this month, The Nightmare Card, which was inspired by a card… Continue reading
Lady One Question reads WOLF BLOOD by N.M. Browne
It’s been a good summer for reading, the weather’s been too awful for much else – although in fact I have worked my socks off the past few months, and there hasn’t been a chance for travel. I thought I’d review some of thew books I’ve enjoyed in the past weeks, and this has been… Continue reading