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Six months!
Saturday marked the six-month birthday of The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle hitting bookshop shelves so I couldn’t resist celebrating with a cat cake! Publication had already been delayed by a year due to Covid, and even then, released just … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author event, autumn, Avery Buckle, book club, book group, book of the month, book reviewers, Book shop, books, booksellers, cat cake, celebration, children's author, children's books, cream teas, devon, Hannah Foley, harvest, horses, independent bookshop, Indie bookshop, librarians, magic, middle grade fiction, Owl and Pyramid, ploughing match, publishing, readers, seaside, seaton, tea, teachers, thankyou, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, tractors
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Summer Memories
Here’s a few memories from the summer to share… I met up with a couple of friends at the book festival in Edinburgh. It was lovely to get together and chat books, art and writing to our hearts’ content. The … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged Aberfeldy, adventure, author, book events, book festival, children's author, children's books, edinburgh, Edinburgh International Book Festival, fiction, friends, imagination, magic, memories, MG novel, middle-grade book, Salmon Rushdie, scones, scotland, signing, storytelling traditions, summer, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Windmill Bookshop, writing
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Folktales: Witches
In my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery has no memory of the group of witches who promised to look after her when she was a baby. The witches live in a magical house called Cunningfoot, with doors that … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Making changes, Uncategorized
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, Baba Yaga, Cassandra, Ceridwen, folktales, Hannah Foley, inspiration, Jezebel, Kikimora, legends, Lilith, Mab, magic, middle-grade fiction, Midsummer, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, witches, writer
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Folktales: My Baddies
At the beginning of my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery has a horrible feeling she is being followed by something not nice… and it turns out she’s correct! There’s a few baddies in the book, and my ideas for them … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, baddies, BAdoch, bean nighe, Bodach, children's books, folklore, folktales, Hannah Foley, kelpies, Kinlochleven, legends, Mab, magic, Mamores Mountains, middle grade fiction, peat bogs, peat hags, scotland, sluagh, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, witches, writer
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Folktales: Hearthfolk
In my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery meets a character called Knuckle. He is broad-shouldered, with hands the size of teapots. He has black freckles clustering his shoulders, arms, and hairline, and every time he sneezes, sparkling embers … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, children's books, Dartmoor, domovoi, folktales, Hannah Foley, heart, hearth, hearthfolk, home, Howick House, Knuckle, Lucy Worlsley, magic, Mesolithic house, middle grade fiction, northumberland, Slavic traditions, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, 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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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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