My new book-baby

by | Jun 5, 2017 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Writing

  Elizabeth Gilbert (superstar author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear) suggests that we don’t call our books “our babies”. It’s not all that helpful or healthy to be so attached to your work output that you assign it the same...

Stubbornness

by | Oct 5, 2016 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Writing

I recently listened to an illustrator describe the tools she had used to produce a picture book – “graphite pencils, watercolour, collage, old photographs…and stubbornness.’ Ah. Yes.     Picture books may look simple. In fact, the simpler they look or seem,...

For the girls

by | May 3, 2016 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Writing

I don’t like public speaking. I know lots of people feel the same way, that my fears are as common as mud, but it still frustrates me. I think the problem is that I cannot quite understand it. I like to talk. Really like to talk. I like people and I enjoy...