This is SO not my fault. The ever-fabulous Keris Stainton mentioned she was tempted to try Show & Tell's 30 Day Drawing Challenge - and I am nothing if not suggestible. I drew a lot as a teenager (still have v fond memories of my watercolour of Colin the Leopard Lily for my GCSE coursework,… Continue reading 30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 1
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Girls Heart Books
Honestly? I am almost as excited to unveil this little beauty as I would be about a new book. You see, there are loads of brilliant individual children's writer blogs out there. The Scattered Authors Society has been running a daily kidlit blog at An Awfully Big Blog Adventure for ages. There's Crime Central, an… Continue reading Girls Heart Books
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
Elisabeth Sladen died yesterday, at 63, apparently after a long battle with cancer. It seems at best a bit daft to weep over someone you've only ever known via a fictional character, and my thoughts are with her husband, daughter and friends - but I clearly wasn't the only old Whovian last night watching Genesis… Continue reading Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith