Squidge's Scribbles

I was in two minds about posting this, because it deals with a rough time recently which resulted in a few issues around the publication of ...

The second workshop with Isabel Costello at the retreat was about Motivation, and followed on from Inspiration the previous day. It was base...

I've been forced recently to question whether I do enough to market my own books; I've had some really disappointing sales figures. ...

I've been to camp again recently, with 5,500 campers from the worldwide family of Scouts and Guides. It's the ninth camp of thi...

No, I'm not quitting blogging. Although I admit, I have been very lax at getting blogs written recently. I will endeavour to do better! ...

Well, unfortunately Kingstone didn't make the shortlist for the Leicester Book Prize; I always knew it would be a tough call when I sa...

Recently, I went to our town hall to spend an evening with Gervase Phinn. For those who don't know him, he's an author and educa...

Remember I said I was doing a talk about being an author for the Nanpantan Festival ? It was today. I was all set. Books to sell alongside...

I've been writing The Crystal Keeper's Daughter for a while now - almost twelve months. I began writing it after a very busy and re...

I hate being ill. I mean properly ill, as opposed to a few sniffles or a day or two feeling a bit under the weather. Four weeks ago, I had...

Things are getting well and truly Christmassy at Maison Squidge. The tree went up last Wednesday, we had flower arranging and carol service...

I haven't blogged much recently. Things - generally - have stalled on the writing front. It's not that I don't want to get on ...

Most authors will have several sources of inspiration. I'm not talking about story inspiration here - the 'where do you get your i...

You know Granny Rainbow was published last year? And this year, More Granny Rainbow was published too? (You can read all about them here ....

A bit of an update on all things writing... The 100 days of writing challenge. I'm on 28 days of writing, 6 days missed. The ratio i...

*sings* 'I got the neeeww pro-ject bluuues' *blows mournfully on a harmonica* It's a long time since I started a new, big, wri...

So, for the first time, I've decided to delete a blog post. If you've been following the Scribbles for a while, you might remember i...

Been working on a story for the next book of Granny Rainbow stories - had the title all sorted: Granny Rainbow and the Pear Tree Pirate. I...

We didn't have turkey on Christmas Day. We had ours on Saturday last, when Mr. Squidge's side of the family came on their festive vi...

I'm part of the short stories group run by Vanessa Wester , which produces collections of short stories on a variety of themes in aid ...