Read / November 20th, 2018
Boys Will Be Boys by Clementine Ford is the follow up to her immensely successful and terrific Fight Like a Girl. Ford is an intelligent and courageous thinker who is also regularly subjected to a lot of the worst kind of online abuse I’ve seen. You’ll hear her read out some of those comments in the video below. ‘Boys…
Read / November 15th, 2018
It’s young-adult day in my Christmas recommendation series. If you missed them, you can find the picture books and middle-grade posts if you follow those links. I’ll say again that it can sometimes be hard to draw the line between what could/should make a particular list – especially as children hit the preteen or teenage…
Read / November 13th, 2018
Welcome to this middle-grade edition of my Christmas recommendations list. If you missed my picture book post, you can find it here. The middle-grade market is particularly exciting at the moment, with a lot of author success stories – as you’ll see below – and there are a lot of others who could’ve made this…
Read / November 7th, 2018
It’s time for my annual Christmas book ideas/gift guide. Welcome! I put a lot of time and effort into these series of posts to come up with titles that enjoy and recommend. As ever, especially for children, there will be a crossover of relevance depending on interest and capability, so keep your eye out for…
Keira has taken to watching old videos on my YouTube channel. “You haven’t uploaded anything new in months,” she complains. It’s curious how trends and moods change. We went through a period in which anything I said or did on this blog (and to a lesser extent photos/video on social media) was vetted with such…
Read / October 24th, 2018
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson is a short novel that has stuck with me since I finished it. Here is the delightful opening paragraph. “My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all…
The Art of the Score Podcast Anyone I’ve seen lately who’s expressed even a passing interest in movie music will have had my iPhone shoved into their faces to show them how they can find the Art of the Score podcast. What is it about? To quote their website: “Art of the Score is the podcast…
The official release date was 1st October 2008. I forgot – I thought it was the 2nd. Today. Happy double-digit birthday, my first book baby. * This year has been one of big shifts and transitions. I talk about a few of them in the last episode of my podcast and I’ve sorta-kinda avoided thinking too…
“Karen Andrews’ reputation as a writer, editor and publisher precedes her” Books+Publishing My Creative Process is the online course I developed which only runs twice a year, due to my own commitments. Each time it opens, I get excited because I love sharing what I’ve learned over my writing and publishing career. To explain further: My Creative…
