A poemy thing for you

This is one of my contributions to Ford Street’s Trust Me anthology. The problem with self-help by Michael Wagner . I am a good person I am a good person  I am a good person I am a good person  I am a good person I am a good person  I am a good person […]

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October 14, 2011

Writing Gold

There’s a moment I’ve achieved sometimes while working that I regard as ‘writing gold’. It comes when the characters and locations become so vivid in my imagination that they actually spring to life and begin doing all the ‘writing’ for me. When it happens, I find myself sitting back (metaphorically, truth is I’m slaving over […]

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October 10, 2011

My Latest Balancing Act

Ted's excited, he just holds his emotions in too much.

So this has been pretty much my working life for the past year … Not that I’ve been balancing on crocodiles, but I have been working on getting the balance right for my new book, Ted Goes Wild (illustrated by Tom Jellett). Like most things in life, a well told story is a delicate balancing […]

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October 8, 2011