I haven’t posted in a long while because WordPress changed their whole blogging system and I’ve been too pushed for time to work it out. Also, I’m not a fan of tinkering with technology when I work on it all day – I’d rather read a good book. But I realise that it’s not a good idea to allow my website to go stale, and that I have lots of exciting projects I want to share with you all. And so, I’m diving in…

If any of you are around the West Cork area, I’d like to invite you all to my Writing Exciting Stories event this Saturday (Oct 1st) at 11.30am in the Methodist Church, Kinsale, as part of the Words by Water festival. Suitable for children aged 8-12, we’ll be talking about how ideas evolve, how characters and settings develop, and how to write a story from the story spark to the editing process. We’ll make a story together as a group, and there’ll also be readings from the Nine Lives Trilogy and plenty of opportunity to share your ideas and ask questions.

Sound like fun? Hope to see you there!