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Children's author, illustrator, screenwriter
I’ve got four signed copies of Big Sky Mountain, each with an original pencil illustration from the book to give away!
All you have to do is head to the competition page and answer a simple question to be entered into the draw! The competition is running for a week, and the more you share it with friends, the more chances to win you get.
Good luck!
This week sees the publication of Big Sky Mountain, the first in a new series, all about a young girl called Rosa, who goes to live with her gran in the wilderness.
The story is really important to me, born out of my relationship with my grandma, who would always take me ‘trekking’ up the Malvern Hills.
She’d march us up there, come rain or shine. It really helped foster my love of the outdoors, and hills in particular.
The stories are stuffed full of my favourite things, such as canoeing, sitting around campfires, a friendly moose, a pair of diligent and very busy beavers, and of course, cabins.
I hope you like this world of Big Sky Mountain as much as I do!
It’s lovely weather here today. We moved to the seaside six months ago, so you can imagine we have been making the most of the glorious weather. Lots of swimming in the sea! Because I don’t have lovely thick fur like the beavers in Big Sky Mountain, I have to admit to being a big fan of the wetsuit. If you follow me on Instagram, I’m sure you’ll have seen a LOT of photos of us on the beach – whatever the weather!
I’ve got some freebies to give away in the coming days, so stay tuned!
I am so excited to share this with you all!
My new series Big Sky Mountain is publishing June 2021 with Piccadilly Press (who also publish my Hotel Flamingo series).
It got wilderness, adventure, and lots of fun! It was a dream to write. It’s a story about a girl called Rosa who goes to live with her ‘Grandma Nan’ in a cabin in the wilderness.
Nan teaches Rosa how to survive in a very different landscape to the one she was used to. The mountain is home to many other colourful creatures; some friendly, some grumpy, some scary, but all important to the wider ecosystem.
In the first book Rosa meets a pair of beavers…
All of the stories in the Big Sky Mountain series will discuss keystone species. These are species that make a massive difference to our planet, and are incredibly important for all of us…
It’s quite a personal book. Not only is the subject very important to me, it’s also inspired by the relationship I had with my own gran, who would always march me up the Malvern Hills as a boy.
I hope you like it!
You can pre-order here, which is incredibly exciting! http://bit.ly/bigskymountain
PS. Pre-ordering makes a big difference to sales charts, so I’d be really thrilled if you did — but only if you want to obviously! http://bit.ly/bigskymountain