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Picking One Author
There’s a new interview with me up on the excellent authortrek site, following their lovely review of Leading the Dance. One of the most difficult questions always is to pick the authors who have...
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Pop up alphabets…
This little video had me gasping with appreciation at just how clever – and funny – this book is. Just look at that C to D flick… I saw it, via Alex, here Another good site featuring typography here,...
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Dancing book…
This note I received on my facebook wall from a student called Asha Gill surprised me and made me very happy… I study English and Physical theatre, and for my final year at uni, I took a choreography...
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The last Pick'n'Mix bag….
So, it’s the end of an era. The last Woolworth’s Pick and Mix bag is being sold on Ebay. Bids have so far reached £13,000 and the money is going to a charity to help retail staff in trouble. I’m...
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A HAPPY DANCING BOOK REJOINS THE PARTY
In 2004, my first novel Something Beginning With was published by Bloomsbury. It was an unexpected easy ride to publishing that was called by magazines such as Mslexia, a ‘fairy tale’. What had...
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A Surreal and Magical Sunday…
Something Beginning With, now available both in paperback and in ebook format. (And please note that the American Edition is called The ABCs of Love You could buy both but you’re bound to be...
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What Something Beginning With is all about…
Hello to all of you who have come via Neil Gaiman’s blog. Well, hello to everyone, of course, but the blog stats suggest there are lots of new visitors today. Please say hello, or at least give me a...
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Look! Meg and I made a film…
> (I’m played by Lauren Bacall and she’s Audrey Tautou – except we don’t actually appear….) SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH available in the UK here, nb Kindle version just £2.99, and as the ABCs of Love...
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Book Club Questions for SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH
This is my first attempt at writing book club questions for SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH, and it’s been so interesting, not least because it’s forced me to look at my own writing as dispassionately as...
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