While the wind is blowing a gale outside and the rain is pitter-pattering down the window pane, I’m trying to remain positive and think about that well known saying above of ‘March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers’! If it all gets a bit much, I might have to adopt Fearne Fairy’s thinking… Read more »
Last week’s 20th World Book Week was certainly a wonderfully whimsical one for my Whimsy Wood children’s books and I. First of all the Whimsy Wood competition to win signed copies of book 10, ‘Fearne Fairy And The Landing Lesson’, run by the International Writers Inspiring Change (IWIC) foundation, concluded on March the 1st. The… Read more »
On Thursday March the 2nd, (this coming Thursday in fact!) the 20th World Book Day will have arrived! Woohoo! 😃📚✨ To celebrate this delightful day and all things bookish, I wanted to let you know that we’re running a competition on the Whimsy Wood Facebook page! Here is the link to this page:- https://www.facebook.com/WhimsyWoodSeries/?ref=ts&fref=ts… Read more »
My 9th ‘Whimsy Wood’ children’s book, titled ‘Fearne Fairy And The Chocolate Caterpillar’, was launched on Saturday July the 2nd. In the past, we have held book launches in various book shops within the beautiful county of Wiltshire that I live in. For example, book 7, ‘Posie Pixie And The Pancakes’, was launched in The… Read more »
Let’s squeal and squeak! It’s ‘Independent Bookshop Week’! 😃📚 Would you believe that this week has actually seen the 10th annual celebration for independent booksellers in the UK? How wonderful is that?! With an array of author events, poet tours and book awards happening within the 400 independent booksellers taking part across the UK this… Read more »
Hello there and a happy Thursday to you all! I hope you’ve been having a wonderfully whimsical week so far and thank goodness it’s nearly Friday! My desperate need to reach the weekend, has been fuelled by the frenetic pace of this week. I honestly don’t know if I’ve been coming or going! Mostly ‘going’… Read more »
Along with the wonderful Christmas cards that have been arriving at our family home in the wonderful county of Wiltshire, there have also been boxes of hardbacks of my 1st 7 ‘Whimsy Wood’ children’s books, arriving directly from the publisher, Abela Publishing. 📚 I was absolutely delighted when Abela Publishing were keen to produce hardback… Read more »
I don’t know about you, but I can certainly smell Christmas, if that is indeed possible!?! It’s almost within reach and I for one get so excited about this wonderfully jolly and cosy time of year. 😊 With this in mind, my ‘Whimsy Wood’ children’s series and I were delighted to have a stall at… Read more »
Well, it’s been a week of creativity in the wonderful world of ‘Whimsy Wood’. 😊 I was fortunate enough to attend an authors’ masterclass last Saturday, which was run by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). This was held in the Theodore Bullfrog Pub in Charing Cross, London, and we were put… Read more »
