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Folktales: Giants and Standing Stones
In my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery journeys to a circle of standing stones in Orkney called the Stones of Callanish. She is surprised to find that the stones can come to life, as a band of craggy … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged author, Avery Buckle, Avon Gorge, Brutus of Troy, children's books, fiddles, folk music, folklore, Gail Higginbottom, giants, Gogmagog, Goram and Vincent, Hannah Foley, legends, middle grade fiction, myths, standing stones, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Standing Stones of Callanish, University of Adelaide, watchers, writer
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Folktales: Crannogs and The Crannog – Monsters in the Landscape
In my book, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, there is a great monster, kept in an enchanted sleep in a cavern under Edinburgh. The creature is called a Crannog. A crannog is not really a monster at all, but when … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, crannogs, edinburgh, Hannah Foley, Inchmahome, islands, lake of menteith, loch, Loch Arnish, magic, middle-grade fiction, monsters, neolithic, pottery, roundhouses, scotland, Scottish Crannog Centre, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, writer
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Folktales: The Cat Fae, Girl Power, and the Shapeshifting Motif
In my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, one of Avery’s secrets is that she is a Cat Fae. A Cat Fae is a creature I made up – someone who is part cat and part human. Avery has a … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged adventure, animal, arachne, attitudes, author, Avery Buckle, bias, bird, black cat, cat, cat sidhe, cat sith, darth vader, faeries, female, feminine characteristics, feminism, folklore, folktales, girl power, greek mythology, Hannah Foley, jobs, kelpies, lady in the lake, magic, male, Margaret Thatcher, marriage, men, Moss-Racusin, motifs, mythology, nine, number, number nine, punishment, release, roles, scotland, sealskins, selkies, shapeshifting, society, stereotypes, story behind the book, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, The sword of power, wild soul, witch trails, witches, women, workplace, writer
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May Day
Today is May Day or Beltane, the traditional British festival in celebration of the coming of summer. Between now and Midsummer – a time of elves, faeries and magic – I’ll be writing a series of posts celebrating the folktales … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Making changes
Tagged author, Avery Buckle, beltane, blossom, cherry blossom, children's books, class, elves, faeries, feminism, folk tales, Hannah Foley, kelpies, landscape, magic, may, May Day, middle grade fiction, Midsummer, morality, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches, writer
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Happy Birthday blog!
Can you believe it – it’s ten years to the day that I started writing this blog? What a roller coaster it has been! From the Scottish hills, down to Devon, two more children, changes of career, multiple house moves, … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged adventures, author, birthday, blog, blog birthday, Hannah Foley, happy birthday, life, ten years, thank you, writer, writing
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How I Write
Look at this! I don’t talk about writing for months and then I talk about it for two weeks on the trot! You’ll be relieved to hear, this one is more light-hearted. In my last blog post I mentioned how … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, children's author, children's books, computer, dreaming, Hannah Foley, kelpies, magic, MG Fiction, notebooks, paper, scotland, sketchbooks, stationery, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches, writing
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Where I Write
I hope you had a lovely Easter. I was nursing the full bank holiday but got to see the children do their egg hunt before heading off on my rounds on Sunday morning. There are hundreds of baby bunnies down … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged attic, author life, Bloomsbury Set, cafes, caring, children, class, Clearances, co-working space, computer, Covid, creative life, creative space, desk, Enclosures, family life, first draft, Hannah Foley, laptop, libraries, middle-grade novel, motherhood, mum, notebooks, parenting, Potato Famine, poverty, private space, room, rural working class, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, trains, Virginia Woolf, where I work, Working class, Working class writer, writing, writing life
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The Team Behind A Book
Publishers have always been a slightly mysterious entity to me. I don’t suppose it helps that they are often called “Publishing Houses”, from which I imagined somewhere not too different to my own home. Perhaps the person who did the … Continue reading
Posted in Making changes
Tagged author, Avery Buckle, cats, children's book industry, children's books, debut author, designers, edinburgh, editors, edits, Hannah Foley, Jennie Skinner, magic adventure, marketing team, middle grade fiction, office team, production team, publishers, publishing, publishing houses, publishing team, scotland, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches, writer, Xavier Bonet
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