I’ve been reading around the blogs again and finding out stuff I probably should have already known. First off I knew that poetry, even ‘professionally’ published doesn’t sell in huge numbers. You are looking at about 500 copies a title, today I found out that it is basically the same number for picture books over […]
I am so so happy that the writer Becket responded to my tweet saying that my Haiku was perfect, he loves this particular poetry form, so it means a lot 🙂 Not to mention the excitement of being noticed by an author you like 🙂 I am also going to be reading The Little Book […]
It’s a poetical new year and I am formulating plans, plans and more plans. This year the Monster Blogs on average are five years old so I am planning on lots of stuff to do with that. Resolution wise – I would like to take part in the poetry writing challenges once more and set […]
Last year I had a great time at the first Poetry Slam to be held in Cirencester. It was organised by the fab Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury and was lots of fun. Of course I did not score very high but that is not why I go to them – this was my third […]
Sunday was the village Christmas Craft Fayre in Cranham and I shared a stall with Jeany. She’s been making candles out of old candle ends – this is the second time she has sold the candles like this – the first time she used the profits to by colours and some more moulds (she was […]
Crash bang thump, A noise & what do I see? Little black and whites, staring at me!
I like Autumn best of all, even if the Americans insist on calling it fall, I grant you that is what the leaves tend to do, it is true, but it is a description And not the name of a season lacking the proper diction. I like Autumn, an autumnal fall of leaves if you […]
Yesterday I received through the post the little button badges of one of my illustrations – it is the Mummy Eating Cherry Pie. I am so pleased with them! I gave the girls their badges as soon as they came home from school. There are a hundred of these and they are for the launch […]
This week has been hard work but amazing! Really amazing. Firstly I performed at Well Versed in Cheltenham on Wednesday – then Thursday I headed off to college to learn science writing and discovered there are things I am good at (though that whole spelling thing still evades me!). Then there was the Bristol Comic […]
This a poem I have written for my little girl Jean who is so enthusiastic she wants to take part on the next Olympics even though she will only be 10 then! Her current plan is to work hard at Ju Jutsu which she has been doing for just over a year and to then […]