Writers In Schools and Libraries

As well as sitting at home writing, authors and illustrators get the chance to go out on the road to visit schools and libraries everywhere. I love doing this as it gives me the chance to meet fans and readers and hopefully encourage other people to start reading and enjoying books and stories.

I've had a busy week so far visiting schools around the country and it hasn't finished yet. Today, we're off to Cardiff ready to visit the new Central Library where lots of children will be coming along as part of the Capital Reads festival. If you're in Cardiff why not come along. I'll be there from half two until four... See you soon.

School Visits

Had a great day today at Saint Aidan's CE Primary School - here's a BIG HELLO to everyone there. Lots of great questions from everyone today - and good to talk to keen readers of Robo-runners...


Tomorrow I'm off to visit Billinge Chapel End Primary School in St Helen's - so here's a BIG HELLO to you too... then it's home for tea and off across to Nottingham ready to visit St Peters CE Junior School... Hopefully squeeze in a bit of writing somewhere along the way too.

Cats, Cats Cats...

Many thanks to all the authors that have taken the time to send me pictures of their cats... I will certainly be putting some of these pictures on my blog/diary... but I've received so many emails that I will probably create a new page for my website to house all the pictures that I've received...


Thank you, thank you,  than you...


Back on the road again next week to visit a few schools around and about... New of those coming soon... 

Where do writers get their ideas?

This is definitely the one question that writers get asked over and over again..

WHERE DO YOU YOU GET YOUR IDEAS ???

This can be a simple question to answer - Ideas come from lots of places...

Or it can be a difficult question - No one really knows where ideas come from etc etc...

But over the years I have come to know a lot of authors and I feel quite confident in telling you that I know where lots of them get their ideas...

It's from their cats.... Yes, yes...I know what you're thinking... "This is ridiculous!!!"

But I think it might be true....

Most of the authors I know have cats... Our cat, Polly... just hasn't been pulling her weight recently and that explains why I haven't written as much as I should over the last few months (thankfully this is all sorted now)... What other explanation could their be???

Other writer's cats are far more productive and they are producing much more work than me... to prove it I am going to feature other writer's cats on my blog to show how good they are at helping with writing...

So if you want to succeed in writing.... Get a CAT.

Just to prove this is true I will be featuring pictures of authors cats over the next few weeks... so don't be shy.... send me a photo of your inspirational cat....