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A few months ago I published an eBook called  Anansi - The Trickster Spider  which is a retelling of eight traditional African stories. Since publishing this title we have had consistent sales to adults who want to share these stories with their children. Our buyers have not only been parents and grandparents but people who work with children. So last month we decided to build a website that would provide activities relating to the eight stories included in the book. These will be free to anyone who purchases a copy of the book. So for the last month I have been creating:   Colouring pages Templates for dancing puppets Templates for moving puppets Word searches Crossword puzzles Instructions for games Fact sheets about the many animal characters Quiz sheets Whilst I continue to come up with further ideas we have a web designer creating our website. As this will take a little time and kids across the country have another week off school I wanted to share a c...

Hello! Charity's Child was my first novel, published in 2008 by the small new independent publisher Circaidy Gregory Press (still going strong and branching out all over the place). Kay Green, who runs the press, gave me my first experience of working with a savvy and eagle-eyed editor, and without any doubt she helped me turn Charity into a better book. It came out; we did some publicity - oh, the story may sound familiar. My family and friends were excited and supportive and we had a celebratory barbecue in our back garden (it poured with rain but my wonderful partner found us a last-minute canopy and carried on cooking - thank you, Paul). It was a memorable day. I had signings, too, including one in the much missed Borders, five minutes' walk from home. That one was great - I told tons of people and many of them turned up. One couple who are old friends bought six copies - thank you, Keith and Sue. I had another signing, this time in Borders in Birmingham. It was August Ban...