And so I face, the final curtain… On pregnancy, anyway. With ten days until Baby Girl Brown is due (won’t it be nice to have a real name for her!) and little signs, not to mention wishful thinking, that she could come any time, my thoughts have naturally been straying to the future. It is [...]
Archive > March 2010
Creative Writing Awards
Don’t get excited, this isn’t about my picture book being accepted by an agent, sold to a major publishing house and winning a prestigious award since my last post. If it was, I would be too busy running around the room screaming to write a blog post about it. No, this is a response to [...]
Aaaaand Press ‘Send’…
So, in the last couple of weeks, after putting it away for a while, I have taken out my picture book (which you may remember from my post Lightning Bolts and Dragons). I have revised it, changed the character name a couple of times, tweaked it and polished it. I have bought a copy of [...]
Book Review: Stick Man
This week’s book review is a book we got out of the library and now have to buy for our son as he fell instantly in love with it. Don’t forget to click here for Daniel’s own opinion! Stick Man, written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler (who also brought us The Gruffalo), [...]