Linda's News

Hi everyone

I hope you all had a good Christmas holidays. I spent quite a bit of time writing but I didn’t mind – I love writing, even at Christmas! The final Loving Spirit book is out in the shops now – or you can order it from Amazon. It’s called Loving Spirit: Secrets. If you read it, I really hope you like it! All six Sophie and the Shadow Woods books are also out now too. I’d love to write some more of them one day with Lee. They’re so much fun to write and plan! In the meantime I’ve got a new series for 4-6 year old boys coming out called Dinosaur Land. I wrote it with another friend, Michelle, there are four books at the moment and they’re going to be published under her name: M.J. Misra. If any of you have little brothers they might like them! My next series for girls is a series called Spell Sisters. It’s coming out in March too and is about Guinevere from Arthurian legend when she was younger. She’s a real tomboy who loves riding and shooting with a bow and arrow and she has lots of exciting adventures trying to free eight magical sisters who have been imprisoned by the evil sorceress Morgana Le Fay. The series was created by a company called Hothouse Fiction, but I have been lucky enough to get to write them all. They’re going to be published under the name Amber Castle and the first four will be out in March. If you like action, adventure and magic (like me!) you’ll hopefully really enjoy them!

Apart from that I’m working on lots of new ideas and I judged the Blue Peter book award in November. I love all four books on the shortlist and it was great fun to be a judge even though I didn’t get to be on TV! I’ve also keeping busy writing a blog for the GirlsHeartBooks website: http://girlsheartbooks.com. Do check it out. There are 30 different authors who all take it in turns to write a blog on it – a different author every day so it’s always changing and we get lots of comments from readers. There are also lots of cool competitions on it too.

For those of you who know about my animals from other newsletters, Simba, Pepper and Angel are all well and the big news is that we now have TWO ponies –Angel has been joined by Minnie. Minnie is 12.3hh (too small for me), bay, 11 years old and an ex-show pony. She hasn’t done much for quite a few years so we’re just slowly starting to bring her back into work. She’s bucked Iola off once – and Iola’s friend, Anna, off once but otherwise she’s been pretty good! We’ll hopefully do lots more with her as the weather gets warmer and the nights get lighter. Angel had her first jumping show before Christmas. It didn’t go well. She got eliminated for refusing three times and the announcer said ‘oh dear, it looks Angel isn’t an angel today,’ which rather embarrassed Iola!

Oh, and my really good news is that Loving Spirit is on the shortlist for the Lincolnshire Libraries Young Person's Book Award in the 9-12 category. Thank you to anyone who has voted for it so far to get it on the shortlist - it's all voted for by readers on-line and in libraries so it makes it extra special. I'm absolutely thrilled - just to be on the shortlist is amazing!

Anyway, that’s it! I hope the weather gets warmer soon and springtime comes!

Love Linda xxx

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