It’s October, when the publishing world ups its publicity game, enthusiastically sweeping everything and everyone into the Big Bookselling S...

 Earlier this month, I went on a course on Historical Fiction at Moniack Mhor, near Inverness. Many of you will have heard of Moniack; for t...

I saw a post the other day from a children’s book writer who said she loved making (doing?) school visits. I don’t. Or rather, if you arran...

 September has been taken up with launch events and publicity for my new book and so I have asked my long term writing companion to step in ...

      This is a simple picture book story, but a fresh and pleasing one that opens the way for children's imaginations to take it furthe...

 Hello everyone! I am so sorry I am late posting. I have had a very exciting week and the days ran away with me. Yesterday I had my first se...

  Great Minds - 2500 Years of Thinkers and Philosophy   written by Joan Haig and Joan Lennon  illustrated by Andre Ducci  published by Templ...