While I have a moment I thought I would post some news. Recently Amazon indicated that my York Notes for Journey's End were No. 1 bestseller in the Plays and Drama category of the site which was a lovely surprise. For one brief moment something I wrote was actually a best seller!
I also received my copy of Challenge English for Key Stage 3 which I co-wrote with Steve Eddy in the post a week or so ago and this is now available in WH Smith stores. This is actually a new edition of the original Challenge English series we wrote some time ago. Three books have been condensed into one for all of Key Stage 3, so fingers crossed this does well.
Finally, while I have little time for fiction writing at the moment, I can report that my novel One of a Kind which I wrote quite some time ago now, and which I have redrafted innumerable times, was one of three books shortlisted in the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices award. Sadly it didn't win but I really wasn't expecting it to. It is a much beloved novel which has been shortlisted in five separate national and international competitions but it has never won. In my mind that novel is like a bridesmaid waiting for its moment. Until then, it will be locked away in a drawer and forgotten. At least for the time being.
I also received my copy of Challenge English for Key Stage 3 which I co-wrote with Steve Eddy in the post a week or so ago and this is now available in WH Smith stores. This is actually a new edition of the original Challenge English series we wrote some time ago. Three books have been condensed into one for all of Key Stage 3, so fingers crossed this does well.
Finally, while I have little time for fiction writing at the moment, I can report that my novel One of a Kind which I wrote quite some time ago now, and which I have redrafted innumerable times, was one of three books shortlisted in the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices award. Sadly it didn't win but I really wasn't expecting it to. It is a much beloved novel which has been shortlisted in five separate national and international competitions but it has never won. In my mind that novel is like a bridesmaid waiting for its moment. Until then, it will be locked away in a drawer and forgotten. At least for the time being.
