THE NEWS Legend of the Winged Lion's gryphon cover is in a competition this month-it would be fantastic if you took a second to click here and cast your vote. Thank you so much!
More exciting was my afternoon at a local Forest school talking to Years 5/6. The little gryphons featured last month went down well, and the children kept me on my feet for an hour listening to readings and asking questions such as: how does your story actually end up as a printed book? When the teacher asked how many would like to be writers, nearly every hand went up! Perhaps one day I'll be a footnote in a future Neil Gaiman's autobiography - the funny old lady who read us her gryphon stories. Put it on my headstone!
I was also very happy to be longlisted in Retreat West's novel opening competition (not shortlisted sadly) with the opening of my co-authored, unpublished novel The Shanty Keeper's Wife. (scroll down this page to read about it). This same opening was shortlisted in another competition a year or so ago, so it apparently does something right. Agents please note!
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