Be In The Place update

February 16, 2006

Be In The place - a book set at Glastonbury Festival

I’m shortlisted for an award!!!

Wow! I’m so chuffed! (Do people still say chuffed?) Be In The Place is on the shortlist for The Lancashire Libraries Children’s Book award 2006. Apparently (from what I could find out on the internet) 150 books are read by teenagers and they choose the shortlist of ten books, and I can’t believe that mine is one of them. (Despite spending ages at the computer, I still don’t know what the other nine books are). I genuinely feel so honoured. If any of you who kindly voted for my book happen to be reading this; Thank you very much!!!!

The winner is announced in June, so fingers crossed.

Be In The Place, Writing,

gratitude journaling

Why you should try gratitude journalling

February 14, 2022

Have you heard of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon? Or perhaps you’ve heard it called ‘Frequency bias’? Have you ever looked around for your new car; chosen a make and model you’re interested in, and then all of a sudden you see it everywhere? It’s the car in front of you in the traffic jam, and then you walk past two more as you walk across the car park to the Tescos entrance. It seems like the universe knows you want that car, and decides to show it to you ALL the time…

Modern fairytale painting

A fairytale in a painting

November 4, 2022

I don’t know if you had the same thing when you were at school, but once a week or so, we’d all be handed a card and we’d have to write a story about the picture on it. I remember it quite clearly because I’d look forward to that lesson and I always wanted to write an amazing story, but I was never inspired by the picture so I was always disappointed with what I wrote….

frozen lake

January 31, 2022

I just made it to the New Year, and then I got very ill indeed. It was nothing more serious than a fluey cold, but oh my god, I don’t remember the last time I felt that ill! I had hot flushes and chills (they were multiplying) and couldn’t breath lying down, so three nights of trying to sleep upright in the settee downstairs left me extra tired too. Anyway, the upshot is, even if I’d wanted to run into 2022 full steam ahead, I simply couldn’t. I was kind-of forced into a slow January…

Fairy painting

Are you an artist? Am I?

When is it ok to call yourself an artist? Is it when you sell a few pieces of work? Is it when you make a full time living from it? Is it when you are represented by a gallery or when you’ve had a well-attended solo exhibition? Or is it simply when you spend time when you can, creating art because you love it?…

Mr and Mrs Smith

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