May 11, 2016
Sixty Degrees North and The Pigeonhole Experience
Let me introduce you to ‘The Pigeonhole Experience’. The Pigeonhole is a digital publishing platform offering an innovative product: a...
May 9, 2016
Log Cabin in the Woods
Isn’t this something lots of people, lots of writers, dream of having? A quiet, rustic refuge from our hectic, digital lives? A place...
Oct 11, 2015
The Call of the Loon
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/legalcode Following on from my last guest blog post A Memory Without a Name, today I...
Sep 30, 2015
A Memory Without Name
I moderate a group called The Story of Nature on the writers’ website Scribophile. Six weeks ago our group decided to host a Where Story...
Sep 27, 2015
11 Good (Nature) Writing Habits
I’m afraid I can’t remember where I first read these or who wrote them, or even if I might have added one or two points myself. I have...
Jun 22, 2015
50 Top Novels for Nature and Animal-Loving Kids Aged 9 to 99!
This is a simple list of titles and corresponding authors, of which I’ve personally read (and can highly recommend) at least 40, many...
Apr 13, 2015
A Hero for a Lifetime
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post, Old Friends, about the powerful impact books can have during childhood. The photo I used to...
Feb 19, 2015
Old Friends
A recent article in The Guardian by SF Said, "Children's books are never just for children" (16 February 2015), lamented the lack of...
