TV scriptwriter & editor; children’s author (fiction/non-fiction); poetry; plays. Co-director of Hinterland Theatre CIC. Agents: @kitsonpress & @EveWhiteAgency
Joined May 2012
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A glorious array of World Book Day potatoes. #WorldBookDay2023
When you’re about to award a prize for best-dressed book-character potato, you know it’s going to be a good #WorldBookDay2023 #veggiebooklove
Teachers: I'm available for a limited number of online school visits. You can contact me via @ContactAnAuthor & @AuthorsAloudUK.
Giant features on @MrEPrimary's brilliant #bookmatch thereaderteacher.com/bookmat… & read about Just Jack via @booksfortopics booksfortopics.com/post/just…
It’s been a truly awful week but I know lighter, brighter things are coming. Partly because I have my reading therapy right here. A new book by a certain Marvellous Maz... Can’t wait! X
If you're in need of a lift, I *highly* recommend @maggiesmithpoet's poetry collection GOOD BONES. The title poem did the rounds on Twitter (& was rightly & highly praised), but the entire collection is gloriously good. Want to improve your well being? Read more poetry.
I'm not on Twitter much at the moment but will be popping in to recommend things as often as I can.
Tonight I'm recommending @jocotterillbook's lovely A LIBRARY OF LEMONS in which she handles the topic of grief with great sensitivity & skill. Years on & I still think about it...
Delighted to be taking part in #SignForOurBookshops.
I now have signed Giant and Just Jack bookplate stickers ready to send to any #independentbookshops who would like them. Tweet or DM me and I'll pop one or two in the post.
(Bookplates also work as impromptu plasters.)
The problem with writing in different genres is that deadlines can collide *spectacularly*. Currently on fifth of the week.
But I know so many wonderful writers that there's always a reward in store and tonight it's the just published FOX by @isabelwriting & @DanielEgneus...
I wrote one for Oxford University Press's Reading Tree called Fang and the Dentist. Illustrated brilliantly by Ivana Kuman ... (the cover makes me smile every time!)
I absolutely love this book—one of the most insightful, observant & genuinely empathetic I have read in recent years. Made me cry. Funny, moving, full of truth. Can’t wait to recommend it via @bookpenpals and to read the rest of @JasonReynolds83’s work.
A public safety information film from my son:
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I got a bit carried away making bookmarks for @slhattersley’s brilliant #BookmarkProject and made four instead of one. Discovered that displacement activity—especially when book related—is very soothing...
Gorgeous reviews and pictures from my @bookpenpals @LesleyWatson81 after my recommendation of the fabulous Wed Wabbit by @LissaKEvans. They all gave it five out of five stars!
Happy #WorldBookDay2020 everyone!
This school is going to be special. They’ve asked the kids to come in black and white clothes (representing text on the page) in the hope they will buy books instead of costumes... I love Ashley Juniors already...
The blank page—ready to be filled with kids and stories... #WorldBookDay2020
This beauty, published by @LittleToller, arrived in the Sentance/Scott household today.
Neil has accepted the arrival of his second book with his customary calm and ploughed on with work. I'm a bundle of over-excited nerves and keep stroking the cover.
(Excellent teamwork.)
I didn't realise how wonderful it would feel to receive superb, uplifting, happy-making #bookpenpal post like this from @LesleyWatson81 - an envelope of sunshine on a gloomy day.
Who knew what a postcard could do. #Bookpenpals
The calm before the storm...
World Book Day Week #WBD19 #schoolvisits
