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Knights of the Wobble Table read on Youtube!

Well this year has been a strange one. We managed to do a wonderful week during world book week , before lockdown happened. So then we...

Patrons of Reading school library honours Karen's work

Nicky Fee, a teacher from Seamer and Irton School in Scarborough sent Karen this lovely picture of the display in their library. What an...

Huzzah for creative writing!

We have had a fantastic time doing lots of fun creative writing over the last few weeks in a variety of schools in North Yorkshire and...

Dragons Wanted!

Last week Sir Trumpsalot and I did a fab fun #Authors Abroad workshop at Norbridge Academy some awesome 6 and 7 year old writers. They...

Wychwood Festival

Sir Trumpsalot and Karen just got back from doing a workshop at the Children's Literature Festival as part of the Wychwood Festival. We...

Bologna 2018

This year we sent our sales and marketing team to the International Children's Book Fair in Bologna. Ian spent a good few days there with...

Breaking Lies - Sequel to Breaking Silence

Okay. It's a long time since I've posted anything about Breaking Silence, but today I crossed the 90 000 word mark in book 2, Breaking...

Someone's blogging about Breaking Silence

This is a blog from a fan. Thank you. Read it here.

Book Signing Fun

Doing book signings have taken on a whole new meaning since Sir Trumpsalot arrived in my imagination with his friends Sir Gaseehad and...

Breaking Silence gets Great Reviews

One of the things that keeps a writer writing is to know that people are enjoying their books. Here is one of many emails I received...

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