Ruth Symes
Children's AuthorBlog
Here is my latest news, useful tips and other thoughts
Two Faced and Dog Coats
As some of you know I'm very lucky to have two writing careers. One as Ruth Symes and one as Megan Rix. Ruth tends to write for slightly younger children than Megan. She also tends to be a bit less high profile although my books as Ruth Symes sell all over the...
Winning Animal Medals from Bedford Girls School
Sorry it took a bit longer than I'd hoped to post these medals for animals created by the girls from Bedford Girls School. I think they're fantastic! Well done everyone....
Royal Masonic School Prize giving
Had such a lovely visit to the Royal Masonic Girls School on Friday. Everyone there is so friendly and I was so pleased to go back there for the second time to be their guest of honour and give a speech about the importance of following your dreams and being...
Water, water, everywhere (or not…) Megan Rix
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...
Teaching Resources for the Runaways
Teaching resources for The Runaways are now available on my teaching resources page.
Win the best animal adventures with Puffin
Puffin are giving a lucky reader the chance to win a bundle of some of the best animal stories One lucky winner will receive my books The Runaways & The Hero Pup together with these other great books: The Butterfly Club by Jacqueline Wilson, Hattie B Magical...
Meeting Tarli the Baby Elephant
Whilst researching my book the Runaways, I was lucky enough to get to meet with Tarli the new baby elephant at Woburn Safari park - she's soon cute If you want to see Tarli and the other animals at Woburn Safari Park, National Geographic Kids has a great prize in...
Lizzie… by Megan Rix
There was once an Asian elephant called Lizzie who in WWI left the circus and went to work carting munitions, machines and scrap metal around Sheffield. Lizzie by all accounts was a bit of a character. There’s stories of her eating other carter’s lunches, putting...
Animal Sanctuaries – Ruth Symes
I love writing about animals - whether it's real-life based animal stories as Megan Rix or fantasy ones as Ruth Symes. This month sees the launch of my second book in the Secret Animal Society series and is called Spike the Sea Serpent. The Sanctuary in the book is...
PDSA Animal Story Writing Competition
The closing date has been extended to the 31st May! http://www.pdsa.org.uk/pet-protectors/win/writing-competition
Spanners in the Works… (plus a great writing competition)
I loved the World Book Day stories on GHB and wanted to share my one. I love doing talks in schools because as part of them I get to talk about my dogs Traffy and Bella and use a powerpoint presentation with lots of cute puppy photos and stories about the tricks...
PDSA Writing competition
The PDSA (People's Dispensary for Sick Animals) is running a great competition for budding authors. The winner will receive: a VIP tour of a PDSA veterinary hospital a kindle a signed set of my books Membership of the PDSA pet protectors club For more details and...