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The Railway Tunnel
At the weekend, we travelled up to North Devon to finally celebrate my mum’s 70th, eighteen months late. We’d re-booked the holiday cottage three times. It was a wonderful, glowing time of family, good food, long walks, and pottering around … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged 70th birthday, author, autumn, Avery Buckle, book locations, cannonmills, cat, children's author, countryside, devon, England, halloween, Hannah Foley, holiday, magic, middle grade fiction, middle grade novel, North Devon, places, railway tunnel, rope swing, scotland, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches
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In Conversation
I’ll be honest, I took September hard. It started with being away in Scotland when the swifts left. This year more than any other, I was desperate for the light to linger, and the darkness and damp to stay away. … Continue reading
Posted in Making changes
Tagged autumn, Avery Buckle, cats, children's books, Discover Kelpies, Elizabeth Ezra, halloween, Hannah Foley, Kelpies Prize, magic, middle grade fiction, middle grade novel, Ruby McCracken - Tragic without Magic, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Wind in the Willows, witches
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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: 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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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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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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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
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
Posted in Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, cats, children's books, Discover Kelpies, Hannah Foley, launch day, magic, middle grade fiction, My Book Corner, reviews, scotland, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches, writer
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