-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Hannah on Bleurgh
- Sally Farrant on Bleurgh
- Hannah on Half term adventures
- Sally Farrant on Half term adventures
- Hannah on Where I Write
Hannah’s Instagram
Hannah’s Current Reading
Data from Goodreads
Shelley Read
Miya T. Beck
Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human
Cole Arthur Riley
Archives
- April 2024
- February 2024
- December 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- July 2022
- May 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
Tag Archives: author event
Midsummer
My children are growing, I’ve started to get silver hairs in my fringe, and yesterday was the mid-point in the year. In my day job, I am organising some drug treatment regimes for patients for 6 months time. That’s Christmas! … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged allotment, author event, book festival, Childrens Author, childrens books, ChipLitFest, Chipping Norton Book Festival, climate, devon, Devon lane, family, Hannah Foley, land, Love Devon magazine, nature, school visits, spring, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, tulips, well-being, wellbeing
Comments Off on Midsummer
Spy badgers
April has been such a dry month this year. I’d been panicking about sowing my seeds too early at the allotment after the temperature dropped, and then decided I’d maybe done right, glad my sowings had at least got a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged allotment, April, author event, author visit, badger, children's author, children's books, ediitng process, editing, grow your own, Hannah Foley, middle grade fiction, no-dig, panic, potatoes, sweetcorn, writing, writing workshop
Comments Off on Spy badgers
Through train windows
I’ve landed in a heap at this weekend, and I’ve so much to tell you. I’ve been sitting here, Wren at my side, trying to craft it all into some sort of narrative but February has passed in a blur … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged apple seeds, apples, author, author event, author workshop, Avery Buckle, cat, children's author, Chris Smaje, creativity, cycling, daffodils, dawn, Hannah Foley, illustration, library, library event, library visit, owl, parenting, primroses, rainbows, reading, riddles, school viist, school workshop, spring, storm dudley, storm eunice, storm franklyn, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, wildings, World Book Day, writing
Comments Off on Through train windows
Half term adventures
Half term was full of adventures… On Friday, I visited the dinkiest, but most perfect bookshop in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, called Through The Wardrobe, to sign copies of The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle. I dropped off some extra goodies … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged author, author event, author signing, author visit, Blue House Bookshop, cat trail, children's books, Gillygate, half term, halloween, Hannah Foley, harrogate, Imagined Things, independent bookshop, MS Nurse Specialist, North Yorkshire, signed books, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Through the Wardrobe, West Yorkshire, york, yorkshire
2 Comments
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
Comments Off on Six months!
This time last week…
How strange to read back my blog post of last week. Was that only last week? It feels a life time ago. Back then, we were planning provisional childcare arrangements but we had imagined the lockdown to still be a … Continue reading
Posted in Making changes, Uncategorized
Tagged adventure, author, author event, blog, cat, cat hat, childcare, children, children's books, COVID-19, delayed publication, Discover Kelpies, Hannah Foley, lockdown, looking back, middle grade fiction, mystery, nerves, parenting, primary school, publication, school, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle
Comments Off on This time last week…
Odd times
Well, these are odd times indeed, aren’t they? I have had my nursing hat on over the last three days, operating under a cloud of contingency planning and training, while running around to make up for the absence of self-isolating … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged author event, birthday tea, childcare, children, community nurse, contingency planning, Corona Virus, COVID-19, dystopia, frontline staff, local businesses, NHS, NHS staff, nurse, planning, quarantine, restaurant, seeds, self-isolating, sweet peas, tomato seeds, windowsill
Comments Off on Odd times
Singing trains
Last week was a busy one. My trip to Edinburgh was great. It was beautiful weather up there: clear and crisp, and slanting low light around every corner. I visited my publisher’s office and met my editor properly for the … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged author event, book signing, Christmas lights, coffee, dystopia, edinburgh, edinburgh college of art, editorial meeting, Exeter Literary festival, illustration, lemon biscuits, Lucy Hounsom, Mortal Engines, Peter Jackson, Philip Reeve, Railhead, Sarah McIntyre, science fiction, singing trains, utopia, Waterstones Exeter, writing, YA fiction
2 Comments
Lemon Biscuits
We have had clear star-filled nights here making it easy to see and admire the Harvest Moon. Consequently the mornings have been cold and bordering on frosty. I found a frozen dandelion clock on the allotment. I have needed a … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged author event, author signing, autumn, autumn birdsong, birdsong, book festival, books, Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, children, children's books, children's fiction, clear skies, cycling, David Lack, dawn, Fairy Tale Pets, family, frost, full moon, Harvest Moon, Hubble Bubble Granny Trouble, lemon biscuits, nosy crow, parents, rain, sunrise, Tracey Corderoy
1 Comment