The blog.
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Sarah Singleton’s interview with Helen Griffiths
by Sarah Singleton I have little patience with rose-tinted views of one’s youth – although I had, on the whole a very happy childhood – but I do feel an intense nostalgia for my early reading experiences. The books I read from around eight to fourteen years of age, when you are first experiencing the…
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Desert Island Pony Books: Sarah Singleton
I’m delighted to welcome author Sarah Singleton to Desert Island Pony Books. Sarah is the author of Dark Storm, The Stranger, The Island, The Poison Garden, The Amethyst Child, Sacrifice, Heretic and Century, which won the Booktrust Teenage Prize. She’s also written the adult dark fantasy The Crow Maiden. Thank you so much Sarah for agreeing to break the drought of posts in…
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Guest post: Amanda Wills on becoming a full-time writer
If you’ve ever been self-employed, you’ll know the uneasy, work-sodden place you reach when you’re still doing your paid job, but your self-employed work is becoming busier and busier. How do you know when it’s time to take the plunge? Here we hear from author Amanda Wills on making that momentous decision. ~0~ Last year,…
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If you were a pony-mad child in the 60s and 70s
(With more than a nod to Horse and Hound, who have done similar things for the 80s and 90s.) Elephant-ear jodphurs were still a thing. The Jacatex page in PONY Magazine was something you poured over for hours at a time, trying to work out if there was some way you could magic together the enormous amount…