Writing Funny: Top Tips

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Following up last month’s post on Girls Heart Books, here are my top tips on writing funny fiction.  

Writing Funny

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Over on the Girls Heart Books blog, I’m discussing why funny books matter to me and next month I’ll be following up with my top tips on writing funny.

Inspired spaces

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Over on the Girls Heart Books blog, I’m talking spaces inspired by pages from literature and in one case, quite literally. Have a read here.

Competition Time!

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Here’s my article about the inspiration for Dave Pigeon in the Spring issue of the Suburb News. If you are aged between 6 years old and 11 years old and fancy entering the Dave Pigeon Writing Competition you have until 22nd June to get your entries in to the Suburb News at rapublications@hgs.org.uk. Stories should to up to 400 words long and …

Those weird and wonderful questions…

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Now the author visits are in full swing for Dave Pigeon, I’ve been collating some of the interesting questions I’ve been asked. Have a read of my post on Girls Heart Books where I relay what I said when I was put on the spot about who would win in a battle between a pigeon and a hamster.

Top Tips on the Wordery Blog

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With World Book Day on the horizon, here are some of my top tips and school secrets I shared with online bookshop Wordery for all those budding young authors out there.

Happy International Book Giving Day!

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This year to celebrate International Book Giving Day we sent books up to Burnley Road Academy in Yorkshire, who sadly lost their wonderful library stock to the Christmas floods last year. Of all the Valentines Day’s surprises I’ve had over the years this lovely email from Headteacher Claire Cope is right up there with leaving me that happy, warm feeling …