A child gives you an excellent reason to queue jump whilst waiting in line for the toilet, though this is probably not so acceptable once your child is over the age of eighteen. It’s an excellent opportunity to use all those clichés your parents used on you. My particular favourites, with my fussy-eater, daredevil toddler, at the moment are: ‘how …
Resolution of the Resolutions
At the beginning of this year I resolved to give the resolution concept a go. I thought it was only right I share with you how I got on. Goal-ution one: try to lose weight Epic fail. I developed a post-Christmas addiction to mince pies and discovered an excellent recipe to help me during the summer months. I also won …
Diary of a Greenhouse Funny Prize Shortlisted Author
Wednesday 8th August: Day of shortlist announcement for the Greenhouse Funny Prize 6:15am Husband’s alarm goes off stupidly early. No movement from said husband. 6:25am No movement from husband. 6:33am Still no movement from husband. Consider divorce for waking me so early. 6:36am Starting to think husband might be dead and glad as this will be much more profitable for …
Jubilation
I’m really chuffed to find out that I’m the picture book winner of the Tamarind Books ‘Aspiring Authors’ competition. Of course it’s all down to my son who was the inspiration behind ‘Don’t Eat That, Phoenix’. After today’s two-hour exhaustive hunt throughout the house and finally discovering the whereabouts of five missing Lego pieces and the batteries for the …
Happy World Book Day!
The first day of March for the past fifteen years has marked the day children come together and celebrate books. Obviously I was far too cool in my mid-teens to dress up as my favourite character or have a bake-for-books sale to rejoice the day but I certainly remember hours daydreaming my time away, lost in moments with my heroes …
Making Amends
My procrastination has taken me away from my current YA work-in-progress and has led me to children’s publisher Hot Key Books. In a bid to convince author John Green to publish his books with them, they’re wooing the American this week by inviting other authors who have been rejected by publishers to suggest suitable castigations to be made public in …
New Year Resolutions
My Year Five teacher introduced me to New Year resolutions. I suspect now, after a heavy couple of weeks of partying the Christmas school holidays away, he gave us the cop-out assignment so he could sleep off his hangover in a pile of PE bags in the adjacent storeroom. It was Spring term’s equivalent of the first day of Autumn …
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
See you all in 2012!