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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. 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
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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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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
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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
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Time
Time. It’s a slippery thing. There have been seasons of my life where I’ve had too much of it, waiting for it to pass, knowing that each ticking second is a second’s worth of healing, or a countdown to freedom. … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged decisions, devon, dreams, hopes, pace of life, seasons, time, winter, writing
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School visit
One of the things I’d been looking forward to as a new author was meeting young readers at school visits and library events. Sadly, the pandemic threw a spanner in the works, and my carefully prepared, action-packed workshops have been … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside
Tagged author, author visit, books, cats, children's author, halloween, Hannah Foley, hats, imagination, independent bookshop, magic, primary school, school visit, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, workshop, writing
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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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Happy Birthday blog!
Can you believe it – it’s ten years to the day that I started writing this blog? What a roller coaster it has been! From the Scottish hills, down to Devon, two more children, changes of career, multiple house moves, … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged adventures, author, birthday, blog, blog birthday, Hannah Foley, happy birthday, life, ten years, thank you, writer, writing
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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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Where I Write
I hope you had a lovely Easter. I was nursing the full bank holiday but got to see the children do their egg hunt before heading off on my rounds on Sunday morning. There are hundreds of baby bunnies down … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged attic, author life, Bloomsbury Set, cafes, caring, children, class, Clearances, co-working space, computer, Covid, creative life, creative space, desk, Enclosures, family life, first draft, Hannah Foley, laptop, libraries, middle-grade novel, motherhood, mum, notebooks, parenting, Potato Famine, poverty, private space, room, rural working class, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, trains, Virginia Woolf, where I work, Working class, Working class writer, writing, writing life
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When I Write
For those of you who don’t know, this week, two years ago, I won the Kelpies Prize at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. On Instagram this week, my publisher posted a photo of me accepting the prize from the wonderful … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged author earnings, children, children's author, debut author, Discover Kelpies, district nurse, Edinburgh International Book Festival, editing, family, holidays, juggling, Kelpies Prize, mental load, middle grade novel, mum, new school, nursing, off-duty, parenting, school holidays, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, time management, tween, two-incomes, writing, writing life, writing process
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