Squidge's Scribbles

I've been working on Rurik since the summer. I think I might have mentioned in previous blogs that I'm changing 'he' to a ...

I've not written a blog for weeks. Sorry. Not because I'm deserting the blog, but you know sometimes, life just seems to get ...

Sorry I've been a bit quiet on the old blogging front - been a bit preoccupied recently! I last blogged about our kitchen refit here ....

Just got back from our holiday in Greece. Seven sun- and sea-filled days with the rest of Family Squidge, staying for the first time ever in...

News item, the first. Remember, back in 2013, I had a story accepted and published in Stories for Homes , the best-selling anthology which...

Yes, it's a long shot you might twig that the title's linked to my favourite musical theatre show of all time - The Rocky Horror Sho...

Well, not me personally. Things in general, especially (thank goodness) the writing. You might remember that a week ago, I posted briefly ...

I've mentioned King Stone a couple of times on the Scribbles so far - it's my current WIP. It took 74 writing days (as in, I wrote...

A while back, in a lovely little craft shop  ( Crafts Cornucopeia ) where my sister lives in   Belper, I bought myself some wool. Not just a...

Things are a bit weird at the moment. On the one hand, I'm on an incredible high; I've had the very exciting news about StarMark ,...

The More Granny Rainbow stories are in the bag, ready for publication early next year. StarMark is finished and could well be published ...

One of the mini-workshops on offer at the Festival of Writing was 'How to Workshop a novel in a day', with the author Allie Spencer....

I've completed two children's novels to date. Both, I've been told, are of publishable quality but have failed to interest publi...

Chuck Wendig has thrown out another challenge, for folks who see themselves as writers to say where they 'are' at the moment. He...

If you've followed the Scribbles for a while, you'll know I've had a few problems with getting my writing accepted by agents. ...

I'm going to take a break from the Scribbles over the next week - unless something awesome happens that I need to share - so it seems a ...

After the difference that Les Edgerton's book ' Finding your voice ' made to me, I recently bought his book 'Hooked' t...

Some time back, I set myself some targets in my writing. You can see them here.  I looked back over them today, and have surprised myself w...

OK, I've decided that, as I'm trying really hard to get the last Granny Rainbow story finished AND revamp Rurik so the rings aren...

OK, so you know a while back, I was lamenting the fact that I couldn't use rings in Rurik's story without nearly everyone thinking I...