Extract 1 His eyes kept being drawn to the terrible eyeball at the window...what a size the creature must be to have an eye that size. He prepared himself for the long slow haul up to the surface. Hopefully, he would see other, less terrible, creatures on the way back up. He had no wish …
Delights of the Deep?
Oh so nearly finished Book 3 which sees Lucy, Danny and Peter explore the delights of a strange planet.
Giant Squid
Looking forward to completing my third book tomorrow and inserting all sorts of pictures - some of my photos, some from the internet and, best of all, the picture my daughter has painted of the giant creature Peter encounters in the Deep Marianas Trench! Local library wants to know more about my talk...aargh. Panic. Not …
Planet stories
'Beyond the Horizon' is available in hard copy as well as AmazonKindle thanks to my publisher Peglets in Honiton. Please contact me if you would like one (£4.99 plus £1.50 pp). Window to the Stars is a little story about my favourite historic telescope, the Lockyer, which has been well received by a group of …
Planet Earth
Tim Peake's glorious photographs of Planet Earth are being lapped up by everyone who sees them. My next book 'Meet the Aliens' is due out this Summer and takes the characters to Earth in the same manner that they visited the other planets in the Solar System.
Oh to be a child again…
What lucky schoolchildren to be able to present their projects to a science conference and, possibly, Tim Peake. How different my life would have been had I had such opportunities. Our careers advice was to visit the local job centre! And as for Tim operating a prototype Mars rover from the ISS, well, I am …
Publisher
I have read the Letter to a Spaceman penned by astronaut Tim Peake and drafted a letter to Puffin and European Space Agency in the hope they may be able to guide me to an agent to handle my books. It is so frustrating as I know there is a market for my little stories.
…..and back to work.
For auld lang syne. A friend has gone; we've said our goodbyes. Spring is here, the future lies waiting. Bright pink blooms the camelia. Bulbs are planted, seeds are scattered. Great Tits are busy, on eggs they must be sitting...now we must wait and leave them in peace and pick up our pens our books …
Nearly Writing Wednesday…
Getting prepared for a full yes full day of writing tomorrow. It is so exciting to read the posts about our own planet on Tim Peake's Facebook page that I really need to finish my book about our planet. The three characters are exploring Earth just as they did the planets in the solar system …
Library talks
Looking forward to giving not one, but two talks at my local libary. One will be for children with the other aimed at adults and talking more specifically about the Observatory.
Karen Hedges 