Author in the Wild
Before I became a children’s writer, I didn’t really know about author events. I imagined it was quite straightforward; a person wrote a book, if they were lucky it would… Read more Author in the Wild →
Faber blog
A Room of My Own: Children’s author Claire Barker shares her writing space Faber | 21 September 2018 Most of my mornings start the same way: I march up the big hill with the dogs and fill my pockets with treasures – nuts, leaves, snail shells, pebbles. We crunch through the silent woods as crows watch us and buzzards sail on the thermals overhead. Then I make an eye-poppingly strong pot of coffee and go out to my hut to begin to write. I love my hut. It’s basically the tree… Read more Faber blog →
How To Become An Author (Or My Job and Other Animals)
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Home Is Where You Park It
Home Is Where You Park It
I write a lot about the countryside, probably because 23 years of my life have been spent living there. But the 24 other ones have been spent living in towns and cities.… Read more Home Is Where You Park It →
How To Become An Author (Or My Job And Other Animals)
How do you become an author? This is one of the questions I am asked a lot and I never really know what to say. I didn’t study for a… Read more How To Become An Author (Or My Job And Other Animals) →
Library Love
A speech to celebrate the launch of Libraries Unlimited in Devon In all of the photographs of me as a small child, I’m wearing a worried expression. This is hardly… Read more Library Love →