Guest Writers Archives

Attenborough Book Review on Sally Cronin’s Archives

Sally Cronin’s Smorgasbord archive series is featuring my David Attenborough book review today. Why not pop over and give Sally some love? Thanks, Sally!

AllAccessCon – reposted from SciFi & Scary

Five Facts about Trees | guest post by Patricia Lynne

Five facts about trees today, from guest author Patricia Lynne. You’ll remember she launched her new YA book, Leaves of Fall last month. I thought it was a great random act of wildness for #30dayswild as well. Five Incredible Facts

Sally’s still partying! Smorgasbord End of Summer Party

Sally Cronin’s weekend party for the End of Summer continues today! I was there for brunch yesterday, although I had to skip off and do other things, so I returned later to catch up with the news and gossip. You

Danielle English, Kanizo Art

Danielle English is a talented artist and illustrator who uses the brand Kanizo Art to promote and sell her work. You’ve seen her work here, often. If you haven’t noticed it, I have problems. Dani does all my Princelings covers!

Mondays will never be the same #blogging

Mondays are days most people blog. I get a strew of emails from people I follow. Okay, some of those are from posts on Sundays, but still… Last Monday, someone changed my life. To be fair, he changed several hundred,

There’s a party going on at Smorgasbord

There’s a party going on over at Smorgasbord’s Variety is the Spice of Life. Sally Cronin is celebrating four years of blogging and new things for September with a three day bash featuring games, people, music, laughter, food, and stories.

Have you met Kristen Twardowski?

I met Kristen Twardowski a little while ago when the Story Reading Ape reblogged one of her amazingly insightful posts. Then he reblogged another one and I decided to follow her by email. I don’t know about you, but I like

Today’s Guest Post on the Story Reading Ape: A Tribute to Fred and George

My guest post for June is up on The Story Reading Ape. Read more of this post here….

Thank you, Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome’s anniversary falls next Saturday. It’ll be fifty years since the death of this prolific writer, who created a series of children’s books that has stood the test of time. The Swallows and Amazons stories are still as popular

Update on Greenhorn – book and movie

Three years ago I published a review of Anna Olswanger’s middle grade novel Greenhorn. I ‘met’ Anna because we were both involved in the Love MG Actually project launched and co-ordinated by Sally Harris, which in turn led to the BookElves project. Isn’t