Last week I was invited to the Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh – BUT I WASN’T SUPPOSED TO TELL ANYBODY WHERE I WAS GOING! I knew that Slightly Jones and the Case the London Dragonfish was going to be shortlisted for this year’s Scottish Children’s Book Awards – BUT IT WAS A DEADLY SECRET! Tiny tartan-clad … Continue reading
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What I Want for My Birthday! – Joan Lennon
Please, please can I have my very own Brontesaurus? Okay, so it isn’t my birthday till February, but I’m willing to wait … (and if Brontesauruses don’t exist, watching the video is the next best thing – enjoy!) Continue reading
Buttercup Jones – Youtube star
OMG times infinity. OUP have only gone and made a FILM TRAILER for my new book Buttercup Mash, which is out on 2nd June! You can watch it on the Buttercup Mash Facebook page or on Youtube. And here’s a handy link for you too. Let me know what you think (but be kind, Buttercup … Continue reading
Where I Write
Lots of writers have a particular place they like to work. JK Rowling famously wrote lots of the Harry Potter books in a cafe in Edinburgh. Philip Pullman writes in his garden shed. Personally I’ve always envied Cassandra, the narrator of Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle: as she tells us in the opening line, … Continue reading