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Character Names!

Posted: 12/11/2011 | Comments (1)

See my latest Girls Heart Books blog post, if you’ve ever been stuck for character names – and if you want to see a picture of the REAL MARO! http://girlsheartbooks.com/2011/11/12/10-ways-to-come-up-with-names/
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Happy Halloween!

Posted: 30/10/2011 | Comments (2)

Kitty Slade has told me that she hopes you all have a frightful Halloween – but in a good way! And certainly not as frightful as the one she’s expecting. …
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Your Ghost Stories!

Posted: 25/10/2011 | Comments (2)

Last term I visited Wellfield Middle School, near Newcastle – and was delighted when, some time later, I received a big fat envelope stuffed with letters and stories from years …
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The Comic Strip I Nearly Did

Posted: 20/10/2011 | Comments (0)

  Read all about it here: http://girlsheartbooks.com/2011/10/14/girls-heart-comics-too. Fiona
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Girls Heart Books

Posted: 29/09/2011 | Comments (5)

My latest Girls<3 Books blog post is here: http://girlsheartbooks.com/2011/09/27/birthday-party-horrors . Go take a look!

Fire & Roses Competition!

Posted: 01/09/2011 | Comments (3)

Today is publication date for the second Kitty Slade book, Fire & Roses. I have THREE COPIES to give away to the first readers who can answer the following question: …
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Previous Highlights

My First Book Signing

Posted: 05/04/2010 | Comments (4)

Here is a picture of me at my very first book signing, at Turret Books in Lamb’s Conduit Street in 1990 (right). The man to my right is the late, …

My First Picture Book

Posted: 26/03/2010 | Comments (6)

Mind the cobwebs. OK, what have we here? Oh look! This is my very first rough for the first picture book I had published, way back in the 20th Century. …

The True Story of Oedi Puss

Posted: 24/03/2010 | Comments (4)

Where are all the cats? Find out in the True Story of Oedi Puss