I was delighted to contribute to the wonderful BookTrust website - it’s a treasure trove of reading resources and book recommendations for children of all ages - so I wrote this post about ‘The Magic of Talking to Children About Dragons’. You can read it here.

It’s day 4 of the Rise of the Shadow Dragons blog tour, which comes to you courtesy of Bluebird Reviews. You can read the post here - all about how the gentle productivity challenge, #100DaysOfWriting helped me write the first draft.

It’s Day 3 of the Rise of the Shadow Dragons blog tour! Today’s post is hosted by Library Girl and Book Boy. Please click here to read the post.

It’s day 2 of the Rise of the Shadow Dragons blog tour, and I’m very grateful to the North Somerset Teachers Network for hosting today.

I am delighted to contribute to the brand new network for authors and illustrators in the north of the UK: Children’s Books North. One of their regular features is the Northern Highlights interview. Here, I try to define what the spirit of the north means to me, and list some of my favourite northern children’s authors: read the post here.