of Chess Nuts, click here. The official publication date is the first of February, and I’m getting excited. This book is entirely different to anything else I’ve done, and I’m proud of it. My mother, who has never played chess and does not dispense praise unless...
I haven’t read this book by Barbara Ehrenreich yet, but I intend to. I have long held a deep suspicion about the cultish spin-offs of the ‘think positive’ movement (in business, in alternative health care, in management models), not least because of the way they do...
I know, I know, one shouldn’t generalise. But it seems to me that the main characteristic of children’s and ya writers is their unflagging, generous-spirited support of their peers. When one of our number gets big, we celebrate (sure, there may be the odd green-eyed...
I have been cleaning up and cleaning out lately (at the ripe old age of 40, I’m about to get a writing room of my own for the first time), and have come across stacks and stacks of old journals, bits of writing, photo albums and housebooks.* Many times I have heard...
Which is reason enough to celebrate with my favourite ever piece of music (besides, maybe, this and this.). I will be doing my best to finish the V Girls, and on February 19 Chess Nuts will be launched at the Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre by the fabulous...
nally, I have written a book that the publishers can describe as ‘light-hearted’! I need a Bex and a lie down, truly. The book will be launched by an actual chess nut in February (seeing as he is a minor, I’d better check before I put his name here). By which time I...
