By Moira Butterfield (greedy from a very young age, as you will see) A blog should be a little treat to read in one’s day, I feel...

6 a.m. Cat whinges at kitchen door. Writer goes down to feed it.   Also two more cats, and two dogs.   Writer watches the sun rise over ...

In May I finished my second semester on the part time MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge Anglia Ruskin University. I have to s...

Getting published is a bit of a lottery. If you're not in it you're not gonna win it. So in January I made the New Years resolutio...

Now, I'm used to rejection ( link to den post ) but this time the response from my agent was exactly what I'd hoped for: ...

I was at a great event yesterday The Tea Party: Refreshing the Curriculum (at the mac in Birmingham) , where teachers came to meet artists ...

I love it that ideas are everywhere.  Sometimes pinning them down and deciding what this great idea you've just had will turn into, ca...

I’m getting ready to write a new book.  For me this process starts with collecting ideas. My ideas come from everywhere – the radio...