We were recently at this lovely little craft fair at Heaton Fold garden centre in Bolton when Laurence came in from the car park to buy some sausages for tea. However, when he saw our books, he decided to spend his money on an illustrated children’s storybook for his little boy. So he bought Arkwright the Duck instead. The result was he had no money left for sausages!
A man with all the right priorities in life, wouldn’t you say?
What a delight to visit this gorgeous independent bookshop in Chapel-en-le-Frith the other day! “Reading Matters” had long been on my list of places to go and had been recommended to me recently by several ladies at the High Peak Luncheon Club. It was wonderful to meet the owners, Lyndsay and Sue, and to witness…
Wednesday, 8th February found me spending a delightful evening speaking to the ladies of Starkholmes WI. They were interested to hear how I became a writer of children’s picture books and were keen for me to read “Alfie’s Story” to them. They must have enjoyed the evening, as I made several sales of “Alfie’s Story”,…
Arkwright the duck has been away on his travels – I think he calls it his “migration”. I didn’t know ducks migrated, did you? Anyway, he’s not been around for over a year and has just returned from the other side of the world. He’s delighted to be back and so are we! …because you can now…
I’ve just learned that Wirksworth is about to hold its own Hay-on-Wye book festival. They are calling it the Big Book Day and it is being held on Saturday, 8 April. It’ll be the culmination of a series of story and book events held across the town during the previous week. It’s going to be…
16th March 2017 When I heard that the High Peak Luncheon Club had been set up originally by teachers and headteachers, you will understand that I was feeling a tad nervous on arrival at the Old Hall Hotel in Buxton last Thursday. However, there was no need; the 36 ladies and 3 gentlemen made me very…
Sue has just received the 2018 Award for Best Children’s Storybook Author of the Year from the publisher, Acquisition International, the UK arm of Global Media Ltd. The organisation contacted her a while ago to say that someone had nominated her for one of their business excellence awards. At that time, they simply wanted to…
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