Tag: Books

  • Dragon Gold – my longest book

    Dragon Gold – my longest book

    I have been so busy this year, I seem to have quite forgotten to add a blog post about my latest book, Dragon Gold. At 153 pages, this is the longest book I’ve ever written and one of the very first published by Wales’ very first children’s book publisher – Firefly Press. Harri would like…

  • Longsight Big Book Bash on 21st June

    I visited Stanley Grove Academy last year and had the pleasure of opening their new library as well as spending a couple of days telling stories, talking about writing and showing how to draw things. They have asked me back! This time to open their Big Book Bash – a whole afternoon of book related…

  • How to invent stories and characters

    How to invent stories and characters

    Recently I visited the Hereford Cathedral Choir School and spent the afternoon with Year 3 – who are mostly 8 years old – showing them how I come up with ideas for stories and characters. I devised two character’s based on a couple of children who kindly posed for me in their school uniforms. I…