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A note on author visits
This Monday I visited The Swedish School in Barnes. This school is a full-time school in London that follows the Swedish school year (two terms, and from August to June) and the Swedish curriculum.
Being a Swedish children’s author living...
Video Diary, September 2026
From now on I’m doing these video diaries live on Substack, simply because it’s a much more direct route to create these posts.
From now on I’m doing these video diaries live on Substack, simply because it’s a much more direct route to cre...
Bringing the story onto the cover
It’s one year and seven months until The Legend of Maderwerth will be published, so why am I already thinking about the cover design? And why am I thinking about the cover design at all when I have a deal with a traditional publisher?
The...
Student life at Somerville College, Oxford, 1937-1939
A warm welcome to new subscribers of This Writing Life. This first post you’ll come across is usually a perk for paying subscribers to thank them for making it possible for me to keep writing stories, but for now I’m trying something differ...
How to place a novel
At the beginning of September I was finally able to share the news that I signed the publishing contract for my second novel, The Legend of Maderwerth, with Barnard Publishing Ltd. This makes two years and four months after I first submitte...
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