Feb 10, 2016 | competition, life stuff, random, writing
Have you met Esther on Facebook yet? If you haven’t you really really should. Her webpage is here: Esther arrived as a micro-pig and grew and grew and grew. I love reading her Facebook thoughts and they often make me laugh. She’s even got her own book...
Jun 10, 2015 | life stuff, new books, random
Every time I have a new book published by Puffin they kindly arrange a week long book tour around the country and send a chaperone with me so I have a friend to eat breakfast and dinners with at the lovely hotels they put us up in. But during my latest book tour, a...
Aug 10, 2014 | random, writing
On Tuesday I helped out (mainly did a lot of ooohing and aaahing) at an event called Piggies’ Day Out. It was organised by Project 229 and Booktastic and it was brilliant. There were piggy stories – The Three Little Pigs for under 7’s (the group...
Nov 12, 2013 | life stuff, random, writing
A long long time ago (about 1990) I was very lucky and went to work in Singapore for a few years. The reason it was so lucky was I’d just lost my job and the two alternatives on offer in my local Devon newspaper were plucking chickens at a poultry factory or...