Claire Watts

I spent just fifteen minutes with my author hat on in school this week, but I spent many, many hours engaging with children and teachers and...

Following on from last months' resolution , here's a brief summary of how it's going so far. Books read last month: 9 Rearead fr...

  Targets are in frustratingly short supply when most of the work you do is for yourself. But I like targets and so I set them for myself. I...

  Roald Dahl is in the news. Even people who generally have no interest at all in children’s books have noticed. Just in case this has passe...

  I’ve been writing a time-travel story. Ah! you say. Science fiction. But is it? I’d say there’s not so very much distance between the t...

  This month I left my agent. We’ve done some good work together but the relationship didn’t seem to be getting me anywhere, so it’s time to...

  I was recently doing a writing exercise about things I hoped and dreamed about when I was a child and how I felt about those hopes and dre...