What is Suzy's secret?
Finally finished my new play, Suzy's Secret. It deals with some fairly serious themes - how we face up to death in our modern world, and...
Who talks most, girls or boys?
Just had an article published developing research from the chapter on 'Language' in my book, 'You Girls Stay Here'. Really interesting to...
And it's arrived!
Author copies of my new book, with a 'real' publisher, just arrived through the post - rather unexpected as they are advertising May 1st...
Nearly there!
My book is now up on Cambridge Scholars website, as a 'coming soon' - they say May 1st but it could be sooner. Don't rush to pre-order...
YOU GIRLS STAY HERE
Well, I've now spent two weekends proofreading my book on gender roles in children's adventure fiction - that is, been through it twice....
No snow on the table
Big relief all round as our contingency plans proved unnecessary - no snow fell in Bingley (well, a few flakes) and Table for One went...
Table for one 'on tour'
We will be repeating our rehearsed reading of my play 'Table for One' on Sunday, December 10 at Bingley Little Theatre Studio. Curtain up...
All the lonely people?
Our performance of Table for One at the Ilkley Fringe was very well received, I'm happy to say. The lighting operator did a great job -...
Breaking a leg on the Fringe
Well, if you've ever worked in the theatre, you'll know that actors, being superstitious, prefer 'Break a leg!' to a conventional 'Good...
Tribulations of a beekeeper
They say all experience is grist to the mill of a writer. This year I set up as a beekeeper, after doing a course with Bradford...
