. Katie Dale loves nothing more than creating characters – both on page and onstage. She studied English literature at Sheffield University and spent a year at the University of North Carolina. In 2008 she won the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices competition. http://www.katiedaleuk.blogspot.com @katiedaleuk Thank you, Luna for having me on your blog as part of … Continue reading
TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THE FOOLISH KING IN PAPERBACK, LORD MARK PRICE ANNOUNCES THE SUMMER LEAGUE FOR THE FOOLISH KING GAME & HIS SUPPORT FOR THE DELANCEY UK SCHOOLS’ CHESS CHALLENGE Since last summer Lord Mark Price’s THE FOOLISH KING online game has seen young chess players competing from across the world to get … Continue reading
London-based Nigerian-German Olumide Popoola presents internationally as author, speaker and performer. Her publications include essays, poetry, short stories, the novella ‘this is not about sadness’, the play ‘Also by Mail’ as well as recordings in collaboration with musicians. She is a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of East London and the recipient … Continue reading
Nikki Sheehan is the youngest daughter of a rocket scientist. She went to a convent school in Cambridge where she was taught by real nuns in long black habits. She studied linguistics and then psychology and worked as a subtitler for the Simpsons, followed by many years as a journalist. She lives in Hove near … Continue reading
Laila Levenson has always been the baby of the family, but now with her older siblings, Mira and Krish, leaving home just as she starts secondary school, everything feels like it’s changing… can the reappearance of Nana Josie’s Protest Book and the spirit it releases in Laila, her friends and her local community, help her … Continue reading
I is Pig. This is my diary and I doubts you will believe any of it. In fact, if you is the kind of farmer what finds it hard to believe unbelievable stuff, you should put it down RIGHT NOW. I wouldn’t blame you. If I was reading it I would be like, ‘Don’t be … Continue reading
Ok, the title sucks. I admit it but I’m still a little jetlagged and my grand plan of writing this on the plane, or in my down-time in New York really didn’t happen so this post for Disney Villain Blog Tour isn’t going to be quite as epic as I hoped. I’ll litter it with … Continue reading
Melissa D. Savage’s first book, The Lost Pony, premiered in her second grade classroom, winning high praise from critics such as her mom. Although the book was hand written and self-illustrated in Crayola Crayons, it was this experience that began her love of writing and to this day she still believes was one of her … Continue reading
My secret isn’t hidden. You can see it when you look at me. Or maybe you can’t. Because the secret is… What is my true hair colour? It used to be blond. See: Then when I was 12 I dyed it for the first time and since then it has been almost every shade … Continue reading
. Alberto lives alone in the town of Allora where fish fly out of the sea and everyone knows everybody’s business. There he makes coffins for the great and small, but being the only coffin maker in town can be lonely. That is until a little boy and a magical bird enter his life and … Continue reading
