Waiting for first reviews to come in can be nerve-wracking, so getting one like this makes one’s writerly heart sing. I’m not sure about the recommended reading age – I would have thought The Flyaway Girls is definitely at the young (and younger) end of that spectrum....
I got my first two advance copies of The Flyaway Girls in the post the other day. This is my twelfth book, and the sight of the final product after years of writing, researching, editing, more editing, and even more editing never fails to delight me. This novel almost...
… this will be published early next year by Random House. I’m sure you can guess which novel it is, even without a skerrick of German. If you have do happen to have a skerrick of German, however, the details are here.
Nearly five years after its beginning, the idea I wrote about here has turned into an actual book. With an actual blurb. And it has a title. The novel started with me musing: what do you do if you’re good at what you love, but not the best? Do you give up? Do you keep...
Folk don’t often become writers, illustrators or editors without possessing a reasonable degree of introversion: it is necessary to get the work done. However, creators are in need of communion with their people. Often this happens informally: we meet up at festivals,...
1. It’s hard to think of a word to adequately describe this year: let’s settle for hectic. But I have managed, in spite of everything, to write in the margins (ha! see what I did there?). First, the indomitable Patricia McMahon and I have finished a draft and (almost)...
