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One year on
Friday marked one whole year since The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair hit bookshop shelves. I spent that day visiting schools and bookshops to talk about the book and sign copies. The following week I would visit more schools … Continue reading
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Tagged children's author, children's books, children's mental health awareness week, dawn, devon, fossils, frost, Hannah Foley, ice, mental health, mental illness, middle grade fiction, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, winter, Zephyr Books
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Another Illustrator Insight: Me!
Part of my contract for The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair was for me to produce the internal illustrations for the book. As many of you know, it’s a while since I was actively illustrating for commercial purposes so … Continue reading
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Tagged black and white, children's books, found objects, Hannah Foley, illustrator, inks, internal illustrations, natural history, still life, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, Zephyr Books
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Illustrator Insight: Lucy Rose
One of the things that is soooo exciting (among many!) about having your book published, is having a wonderful illustrator use their incredible skills for the front cover of your book. Although I had seen the final version of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Design, children's books, Hannah Foley, illustrator, Lucy Rose, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, Zephyr Books
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Bleak midwinter
So many people complain about January as being long and bleak but it is the darkening of November and the deep gloom of the days around the Winter Solstice which make me cower. By the time New Year is done, … Continue reading
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Tagged Author events, children's books, fossils, hyacinths, January, Jurassic coast, mental health, midwinter, river, snow, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair
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Bright windows
The evening sky turns to dark teal and then midnight blue. A shining slice of new moon is framed by chimney pot silhouettes. Among the houses life tableaus blink on in bright windows before the curtains close – a real … Continue reading
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Tagged children's books, compost heap, EMForster, evening sky, fields, fig tree, fungi, Hannah Foley, Howards End, Jacqui Sydney, leaves, mental health, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, North Devon, november, ocean, reviews, sea, spring mulch, Stevenage, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, woodland
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Growing
Just after I signed off from the blog I had news I could reveal the cover of my latest book, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, so here it is in case you missed it on Twitter and Instagram. The … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, author, beetroot, blackberries, children's books, Claire Ratinon, climate change, cornflowers, cover reveal, crops, deadlines, devon, drought, environment, family, grow your own, growing, Jessie Price, Jurassic coast, Lucy Rose, managing time, Mauritius, mental health, mental illness, pollinators, proof, Rashmi Sirdeshpande, resolutions, Riverford, sewage, soil, spinning plates, summer, summer of sewage, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, time, Unearthed, Wales, writing, Zephyr Books
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Spy badgers
April has been such a dry month this year. Iβd been panicking about sowing my seeds too early at the allotment after the temperature dropped, and then decided Iβd maybe done right, glad my sowings had at least got a … Continue reading
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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
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Book news
The other week a bird woke me with its clear song while the day was still dark. Our bedroom double-glazing is badly fitted so we are usually woken by raucous seagulls or the revving engines of the early-shift workers heading … Continue reading
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Tagged author, bird song, blue tits, book news, celandines, children's author, children's books, Christmas productions, festive jumpers, Hannah Foley, mental health, new book, primroses, SCCR, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, SMHAF, spring, The Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution
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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
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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
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