Category: books

  • Stand Up For Middle Grade Books – or Tweens?

    Theres a great post on the ReadingZone.com called: Why children’s books needs an ‘MGLC’ First, what is MGLC? The MG stands for Middle Grade and LC stands for Literary Convention. This comes about because there has been a successful YALC this weekend – YA stands for Young Adult. The glamour, effort – and prizes – in children’s…

  • Do children need to learn to read anymore?

    I obviously think learning to read is a great idea. I earn my living writing children’s books. Children’s hard labour keeps me busy with honest toil. I wouldn’t want children to grow up without recourse to the wonderful worlds of fantasy that I was able to explore in my youth. Narnia was not just a collection…

  • Dragon Gold highly commended by Tir na n-Og Prize

    I’m thrilled to announce that Dragon Gold has been Highly Commended by the Tir na n-Og Prize judging panel. You may also be interested to know that Dragon Gold is turning into a trilogy – I’ve been commissioned by Firefly to write the second book in the series, called Dragon White, which we are among…