Very chuffed to hear that 10 men in a prison in Maryland, USA, have been working through my free Crafty Writer Creative Writing Course with the help of the prison librarian http://creative-writing-course.thecraftywriter.com/. I put this course up online five years ago after I stopped teaching it at the Centre for Lifelong Learning in Newcastle. Really happy that so many people have been helped by it – although I do sometimes get frustrated with people asking obvious questions like ‘where is the course’ and ‘how much does it cost’? Sigh 🙂
The Bag Lady and Friend
Books are my Bag
I will be attending a Books are My Bag party at Forum Bookshop in Corbridge this Saturday with fellow Crafty Publishing author Tony Glover. Drop by for coffee, cake and a chat. If you live too far, keep an eye open for a Books are My Bag party in your area and let’s keep paper books on shelves! Forum Books is where I bought my first book with my own pocket money when I was seven. It was a Nancy Drew.
Article in Newcastle Journal
There was a lovely article about moi, my company Crafty Publishing and one of our authors, Tony Glover in last week’s Newcastle Journal. It was the lead article in the Culture Section. Those of you who know me well might notice though that it says I was a journalist in Cape Town in the early 90s when you all know I was a care-free student still at Rhodes at that time. My mistake, not the journalist who wrote the article – I wasn’t clear enough in the interview. Not surprisingly as I was rushing off to a book launch at the time. So for the record: I was a journalist in the late 90s. And my daughter was born in 2005 in England and didn’t travel with us from South Africa in 2002. Still a great article though! http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/crafty-idea-sees-north-east-5751799. Tony and I also had a brilliant time at the launch at the Literary and Philosophical Society of the print versions of The Peace Garden and Cars Just Want to Be Rust. Pic of us below in ‘serious author’ pose …
Signed copies of The Peace Garden available to buy!
The official launch is still a few weeks away, but you are still able to buy The Peace Garden, my romantic thriller, for your summer holidays!
“Definitely not your run-of-the-mill romantic thriller. What starts off as an investigation into missing plants turns into an international thriller. I couldn’t put it down.” – Abidemi Sanusi, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize nominee.
You can order The Peace Garden through any bookshop or online retailer. Or, you can buy a signed copy through The Crafty Publishing shop. If you would like to have it signed to you or anyone else, please make a note of this in the comments section when you pay. Or drop us a line through the online contact form.
Book table at Heaton Festival
Looking forward to this year’s Heaton Festival where Crafty Publishing will have a book table. We will be selling all of the Young David Books, including the latest, Lonely Prince, as well as hot-off-the press print copies of The Peace Garden, a literary thriller for grown ups. The Peace Garden has been doing very well as an e-book but due to popular demand Crafty Publishing are bringing out a print version. If you can’t get to the festival and still want a copy, you should be able to order through their website by next week. Watch this space!
I was part of the storytelling team at the last Heaton Festival, two years ago, and debuted the first in the Young David series, David and the Hairy Beast. Lots of fun 🙂
