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WON!

26/5/2023

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I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that Call Me Lion has won the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award 2023 for UK/Ireland. 

This award is hugely important to be both professionally and personally.

The Crystal Kite is a peer vote. This means fellow SCBWI members have voted Call Me Lion as their favourite book to be published in 2022. There were a lot of entries so this is a huge achievement and I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who voted.

SCBWI is a huge part of my life. I have been a long-term member and have volunteered in several different roles. 

The people I have met through SCBWI have become the closest friends and being a member and volunteer means I've been able to progress professionally in my career in so many ways. This is a representation of how far I have come in my author journey.

At the conference in Manchester which this year is on 4&5 November, I will be delivering my acceptance speech - proper Oscars style.

​Can't wait!
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Mentoring/Coaching

26/5/2023

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I've recently started offering mentoring and/or coaching services for children's writers. I'm completely flexible and can tailor make my services to your needs. I charge a standard hourly rate of £35. if you're interested in finding out more please visit my coaching/mentoring page and then, if you'd like to go ahead, please contact me 
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Terrific Tweet

6/5/2023

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Absolutely love getting tweets like these.

It means the world to know that Call Me Lion is out there doing such good work, inspiring and encouraging readers and opening discussions around anxiety and empathy.

​By tagging me I was able to reach out to Rob and ask if he would like a quick virtual Q&A visit for his avid reading group. 

We'll be setting a date for the summer term and I can't wait to meet them and see what questions they have for me.

If you're interested in a virtual visit for your school or library you can find out more by visiting my author visits page and make it happen by contacting me.

Hope to hear from you soon.
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Author Visit for Empathy

4/5/2023

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Yesterday was my first visit to a school to deliver Empathy Awareness talks and workshops. I was lucky enough to be invited to the famous Haberdashers' Boys School in Boreham Wood, a very impressive prep school in extensive, pristine grounds. 

The staff and boys were all very welcoming and I delivered four workshops to each year group (Y3-Y6) and a short 'meet the author' overview assembly to the entire school.

One of the activities we did was to add post-it notes to flip charts dotted around the room with the prompt: Sometimes I Feel... See the photograph below for some of the boy's responses. You'll see that some of the results were very moving. The exercise allowed the children to realise how we can all feel differently and helped them understand the varying perspectives of their classmates. 

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If you're interested in organising an author visit around empathy for your school please visit my empathy page to find out more and then just get in touch. I look forward to meeting you.
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