I had to wake up at 5 in the morning today to appear in the Manila International Book Festival, which went online this year.
Such a treat for this London based Filipino author to be invited to the festival, even though it did mean rising in the winter gloom. The MIBF is an astonishing tribute to a voracious...
Dear Susan: a tribute to my cousin Susan Quimpo
Susan Quimpo was my cousin but she was also one of my best friends. She died yesterday after a long illness. I want to share the story of our friendship so that not just my children but other young Filipinos will know of her and her struggle. The darkness gathering in the Philippines right now feels so bleak and reminiscent of the Martial Law years that Susan's family endured and fought....
My Lockdown Keynote on Reading for Pleasure
By Candy GourlayI am pleased to share the video above of my virtual keynote before the Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils Conference of the Cheltenham Literary Festival – via Zoom, of course. The teachers in attendance had been reading my novel Bone Talk as part of the programme.I was very...
My Virtual Keynote Speech at Undiscovered Voices 2020
Standing: Dr Adam Conors, Sharon Boyle, Yvonne Banham, Helen MacKenzie, Laura Warminger, Harriet Worrell, Michael Mann Seated: Angela Murray, Anna Brooke, Claire Harlow, Annaliese Avery, Urara Hiroeh
I've written about my the Undiscovered Voices competition being my big break in children's books....
How I work
I dared show a photo of my messy garden office in a guest blog for Words and Pictures last month – complete with the table cloth clamped to stands that I used as a backdrop for a few videos.
You can't tell what a mess it is from the outside. Here's a picture of my garden, which was particularly...
With love from me to you
This is beautiful.
And this is the season to recapture what is beautiful.
May this season be one of love and friendship for us all.
Thank you for all the good things that happened to me in 2019.
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The Wokingham Children's Book Festival
I met a boy and a bear while signing books at the Wokingham Children's Book Fest.
Thanks to Let Them Eat Books for the photo!
I presented Is It a Mermaid session at last weekend's Wokingham Children's Book Festival.
Sadly, I don't usually get to run into author friends appearing at the...
Undiscovered Voices Honorary Chair
Today, it was announced that I am Honorary Chair for this year's Undiscovered Voices anthology for 2020.
If you haven't heard of it, the UV was a competition for aspiring children's authors launched by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators way back in 2006. It was the brainchild...
The Carnegie Greenaway Twitter Takeover
So I took part in the #CKG19 Twitter Takeover today.Man, that was hard even with Tweetdeck. So here are my answers carefully organised for you.
This...
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