In Conversation With ...

'Conversations with the Community'
for The Festival of Stories.

Check out The Festival of Stories blog with an update of the most recent community event in the lead up to The Festival of Stories, a brand new four day festival planned to take place in Lytham later in 2013.

I'm dead excited to be involved in this project, and the ‘Conversations With The Community’ at St. Bede's High School in January was a fabulously enjoyable event for the Festival build-up with members of the community sharing their stories.

Organised by local Lytham writer and resident, Alex O’Toole, in collaboration with community organisation, ParkView4U and with the aim of using storytelling and story sharing to connect generations within the community, twelve members of the Lytham community shared their memories of growing up in Lytham with a class of Year 9 pupils from St. Bede’s.

Organisers of The Festival of Stories are currently working with Lancashire County Council to bid for funding from The Arts Council in order to bring the event to the public.

And in the meantime, the deadline for submissions for The Lytham Lives Anthology: A Community In Writing is 5pm on 28^th February.
Some of those at the ‘Conversations With The Community’ event have been inspired to submit some of their creative writing, life stories, and poetry to The Lytham Lives Anthology so if you have any writing on the theme you can submit, get cracking because there's only 21 days to go...!

For more details about how to submit your poems, short stories or pieces of life writing go to: http://lythamstories.wordpress.com
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There's No End to Christmas!

Well blimey! What an AMAZING month!!
 

Not only did Waterstones, Preston SELL OUT of Witherstone
TWICE in less than a month,

I also heard that it's one of the RECOMMENDED READS
for Waterstones post-Christmas voucher shoppers!

 

And, the icing on the cake
- I've received some cracking feedback on The Hunt Begins
- including a brand new 5* review on Amazon!

" Thoroughly Good Read ... "

 

 

And as for me...?   

Nuf said.

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Typing Furiously

At last at last at last!

After too many weeks of endless interruptions and palaver and stopping and starting where I've only been able to dip in and out here and there in between running writing workshops and having meetings about various projects and helping out with endless reams of exam revision and with college and university application references and writing a chapter for the next book (ssh!) and present shopping and posting parcels of books out and spending alot of time in a library, I'm finally spending days at a time on the final part of the Witherstone trilogy - The Book of Shadows.

Am typing furiously in fact. See?

Christmas Rush!

The excitement of being on the shelves in Waterstones Preston doubled when they sold out of Witherstone within a week and had to order a new consignment PDQ! 







Pleased to report Waterstones is now restocked, and the fabulous Broadhursts Books of Southport have now also taken delivery of both books!



And for good measure, AltBlackpool have recommended Witherstone in their seasonal reads!


 

 

 

Witherstone in Waterstones!

 

 

Wrap me in tinsel and call me Christmas!!!

How excited am I?

Very!!!!

 

Witherstone and The Hunt Begins are on the shelves in Waterstones, Preston.

 

And they've even written reviews!