I’m currently moonwalking (badly!) across the floor and singing Elvis Presley’s well known song about America’s playground to myself, because I’ve confirmed that I’ll be attending the 6th annual Children’s Literary Classics Book Awards in Las Vegas! This incredibly exciting event runs for 3 days, starting on October the 13th and ending with the Vegas… 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 »
Last weekend I was very fortunate to find myself away with some of my closest and oldest friends. These friends in question are ladies I’ve known since we were at Bristol University, over 2 decades ago. Whilst having this break from the norm, enjoying their company, relaxing and unwinding (in a fabulous Surrey spa no… Read more »
Hello there! Apologies for my absence. Half-term appeared and then whizzed by myself and my 3 tinkers like a whirling dervish! Now that we are back to some sort of normality and routine at home, I can crack on with all things ‘Whimsy Wood’ and book-related! So, what’s been happening in the world of children’s… Read more »
Ok, so it may not come as a huge surprise to you, when I say that the untangible commodity called ‘imagination’, that we all have, is my most favourite thing in the whole wide world. Your imagination, costs nothing to obtain and use. You can take it anywhere and everywhere and you can use it… Read more »
When I look back at the start of this marvellous month of March, I can barely believe how much my ‘Whimsy Wood’ children’s series and I have achieved. We were invited to numerous primary schools and nurseries up and down the country, as part of book week. I was also asked to judge a children’s… Read more »
The wheels of ‘Whimsy Wood’ were back on the road again last week, as I was invited to visit Townsend Barn Nursery in Poulshot, Wiltshire, to read ‘Posie Pixie And The Pancakes’, book 7 in my Whimsy Wood children’s series. The pre-school children certainly enjoyed meeting all the woodland folk that I brought with… 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 »
Yes, it’s official! The eighth Whimsy Wood children’s book, ‘Fearne Fairy And The Dandelion Clocks’, is currently going through its formatting process and will be released on Saturday March the 19th! I am tingling with excitement that this book, which I originally wrote a good 2 years ago now, will be published very soon. 😊… Read more »
