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I’m absolutely over the moon to welcome a very special guest to the blog today –  the fabulous Mo O’Hara. Mo is the author of the hilarious My Big Fat Goldfish series, which I recommend to anyone who loves funny books about friendship and adventure. Recognising a good opportunity to get an insight into the Read more

This weekend I did a mini-workshop at the Greenbelt Festival. Greenbelt is like no other festival on earth. Where-else could you start the day sitting on an earth mound looking over a Duke’s lawn before enjoying some aerial theatre, taking in a couple of talks about drone warfare or climate change,drop in on some storytelling, Read more

Just before Christmas I had an extremely lucky break. I was on Twitter when I saw a tweet from a writer called Antonia Honeywell who had just had her first novel (the breathtaking The Ship) published. She had seen yet another ‘hottest writers under 30’ article and wanted to know whether there were any other Read more

A few weeks ago I went back to my Primary School to do a story building workshop with the children. It was a wonderful morning, and the children gave me a fabulous story involving a grumpy scientist, a chicken and a group of clever mice. Together we built the story and I loved it so Read more

Last week I went back to my Primary School to talk to the children about writing. It was lovely to go back, to see the classroom where I was encouraged to write by Mrs Tan, a wonderful teacher who told the eight year old me that I had talent and should write more. She told Read more

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s World Book Day. A day to celebrate the gorgeous thing that is a book. So what is a book? It’s a gateway to another world. It’s an instrument for seeing intimately into the lives of others, sharing their secrets, reading their minds. It’s a meeting of Read more