A nice review of my book by New Zealand book girl (Chrissi Blair) on her blog. I've had a great time this morning trawling through...

I have just finished reading Sue Copsey's fabulous ghost story for kids - The Ghosts of Tarawera (Treehouse Books, 2015). The Ghosts...

Everywhere I go, I see Wooden Arms houses. Homes and buildings that have been used, inhabited, perhaps cherished, and now have been left b...

Look at this wonderful blog post by the kids in Room 8 at Pukete School. Thanks guys, I had such a nice time... Room 8 is GREAT!: Author ...

Tui Allen has loaded this review about my book on Goodreads . Tui is an author in her own right, and our local New Zealand Society of A...

  The Bold Ship Phenomenal is safely out of my hands – in China being printed – so I thought I would look at the thorny question of c...

I’ve had two pleasant surprises and two firsts in one week. First (of the firsts) is this online listing for The Bold Ship Phenomenal on...

The really exciting thing about this photo is not my book (unfortunately), but where it’s taken. The book (lucky thing) is now living...

Looking at the title I chose for this series of blogs, I’m beginning to feel rather less serially challenged than when I began. I realis...

I am two-thirds of the way through having the manuscript for my hopefully soon to be self-published book, The Bold Ship Phenomenal , edi...

Check out this picture of Wooden Arms being read to a class at the Anglo American International School in Moscow. OK, so it...

Phew! That was a mission. I smile to see that, when I decided that the first thing I needed to do to get my manuscript – the Bold Ship Ph...

One of the good bits about being a writer is all the talented creative book people that you get to meet. Writers, illustrator, book des...

A big thank you to all the wonderful kids at Puketaha School who made my author visit such fun this week. I really enjoyed our time togethe...

Talented Judi Billcliff is launching her second book of 'fun poems for kids young and old' his coming Sunday 8 June at 1pm at St ...

It was a good week last week. I sent off two stories to publishers (with fingers tied in double-bows, sheep’s shanks and half-hitches) and...

Sorry I've been a bit quiet recently. It's because I'm blogging elsewhere, on the Between the Lines exhibition site. Between t...