I’m privileged to have recently featured on the prolific Morgen Bailey’s blog. Morgen interviews the good and the great (and in my case the not-so-great) of the literary world. It’s a privilege to be with such illustrious company. I talk about my writing life, what makes a literary thriller like my latest book The Peace Garden, the horrors of having an allergy to book paper and the joys of hoolahooping. Drop by and join in the chat.
Guest blogging about Crafty Publishing
This week I’ve been the guest blogger on the UK Christian Bookshop Blog. It’s the second time I’ve been let loose on this forum by the risk-taking editor, Phil Groom. Thanks to Phil and the last guest blog I did, my little publishing company, Crafty Publishing made some inroads into UK Christian bookshops with our Young David books. I’m also musing about the growing e-book market and how my first e-novel The Peace Garden is faring. You can read all about it over at UKCBB website.
Young David book launch a fantabulous success!
I had a brilliant time at the book launch for my two new picture books, David and the Hairy Beast and David and the Kingmaker on Saturday. The kids were brilliant and really responded well to the storytelling. The adults appeared equally interested in Amy and my talk on our creative process. Loads of books were sold with some people buying up to four each! Thanks to everyone who helped and everyone who came. While the adults were listening to the grown up bit, the children were drawing their own versions of the Hairy Beast. Here are some of them:
David and the Kingmaker
It’s here! David and the Kingmaker has arrived from the printers and is ready to ship to bookshops. It looks absolutely gorgeous. As usual, my illustrator Amy Barnes has done an incredible job. I did a reading of the book on Sunday to a lively group of under 7s and their parents. They loved the antics of the sheep and were wide-eyed when Young David was chosen to be king.
I know everyone says it, but this book and its prequel, David and the Hairy Beast, will make great Christmas presents. You can place an order through any bookshop in the world (that’s right, anywhere on planet earth).
Book launch for Young David Books
You are invited to the combined book launch for David and the Hairy Beast and David and the Kingmaker at the Life Centre, Heaton Baptist Church, Heaton Road, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5HN on Saturday 26 November. The event starts at 4pm. There will be colouring-in activities for children while the grown-ups can listen to moi (author Fiona Veitch Smith) and illustrator Amy Barnes talk about their creative process. There will also be a sneak preview of the third book in the series, David and the Giant. The event is free. Click here for directions
David and the Kingmaker goes to press
My children’s picture book David and the Kingmaker, sequel to David and the Hairy Beast, has finally gone to press! It will be ready for distribution next week.
David and the Kingmaker is the second in the Young David series about the life of the young King David.
