Tag Archives: middle grade fiction

Sunstones

Low sat up straight. “Er, Avery. Something’s happening to your back pocket.” Avery turned around, making Sparrow lean again. Low was right. A bright light was streaming out of the top of her pocket. She reached her hand in and … Continue reading

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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 β€œPublishing Houses”, from which I imagined somewhere not too different to my own home. Perhaps the person who did the … Continue reading

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Thank you

I just wanted to quickly pop on here and thank you all for your amazing support for The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle. Many of you regular readers will know I struggle with legitimacy issues! Who am I to have … Continue reading

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Interview with Xavier Bonet

Though we know the old adage not to judge a book by its cover, we all do. I love the cover of The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle. It tells a potential reader so much about the book before they’ve … Continue reading

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Today!

The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle is out today!!! It’s a very special moment. I loved chatting to my friend’s daughter outside school this morning. She has already read the first few chapters. Her enthusiasm for the book (my book!) … Continue reading

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One day…

That mysterious door has continued to put in appearances all over the country and the world over the last week. This morning it was spotted at Kelpies HQ which can only mean one thing… The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle … Continue reading

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One week…

Since last week, the mysterious door has been popping up all over the country! From Edinburgh to Exeter! πŸ˜‰ Follow my social media accounts over in the side bar to see where it pops up next —> It is just … Continue reading

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Two weeks…

Counting down… two weeks until The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle publishes, and reports have been coming in of a strange door appearing in the reading corner of Knightsridge Primary School in West Lothian! It looks a lot like the … Continue reading

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Book extract

Counting down… it’s four weeks to the publication of The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle. The clip above is from my publisher’s YouTube channel – me reading an extract from the book to whet your whistles. Isn’t it funny seeing … Continue reading

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Counting down

Six weeks today, my middle-grade children’s novel, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, will be hitting bookshop shelves. I’m both excited, and very nervous. The excited part of me made this book trailer! For those of you who read my … Continue reading

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