Category: books

  • “Special Sales” – is it worth being an author anymore?

    When I started out as an author, many years ago, I knew where I stood. I got 10% of cover price for hardbacks and 7.5% for paperbacks. A book club deal was jam on top. The Net Book Agreement meant all trade books were sold at cover price everywhere. The Net Book Agreement was designed…

  • Day one of the Great Malarkey Festival in Hull

    Today I’ve been at the children’s book festival – the great malarkey – in Hull which is on the East Coast of England. I’m the illustrator in Residence all week and will be filling my sketchbook up – have a look to see what I did today.

  • Happy Empathy Day!

    Happy Empathy Day? What’s that? Oh no! Not another weird American idea we are going to have to buy greetings cards for? Today is actually the first Empathy Day. In relation to this post I should be calling it #EmpathyDay because hashtags and social media are one of the main cause for the recent lowering of empathy in…