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 their enthusiasm for books and for my own three titles too. They are now stocking all three: Alfie’s Story, Fearless Flynn and Arkwright the Duck.
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…
This young fan had “Alfie’s Story” bought for him last year by his grandparents. His grandma wrote to me recently to tell me that, for the last few months, he has asked for the story almost every night as his bedtime read. He also sleeps with the Alfie cat toy. Grandma sent me this photo…
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I was recently surprised to receive an email from Australia. Turns out that a very lovely grandmother who lives over there was on holiday in the UK last year and bought “Alfie’s Story” and an Alfie soft toy cat to go with it. Back in Oz, she gave them both to her grandson, Finn. What…
My next book, “Owl to the Rescue”, is due to be published next month (October 2019), but the character soft toy – our heroic owl – has flown in ahead of the book and is already going down a storm with customers, young and old alike. Anyone who wants their own cuddly owl needs to…
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…
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