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KM Peyton
Throwing big parties is a very tiring business, so I think I’ll just reprint the Guardian article I wrote 10 days ago….yes, I know it’s journalistic recycling at it’s worst, but I am desperately trying to finish a draft of the new book before my editor goes into labour. Which, judging on the size of [...]
Help! My book is a toad.
I’ve been feeling very guilty because I needed a lot of help with this book. Editors, agents, husband, secret weapon Sally Gardner, and anyone else I’ve been able to rope in to tell me which bits still…aren’t…quite….working. It just hasn’t wanted to come right. For one thing, it’s structurally more complex than my previous books. [...]
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
I’m 53 now but I persist in thinking of the year in terms of the school calendar. My year begins in September, when I have an urge to go out and buy new shoes and tights and pencils, and put brown paper covers on all my books. So even though I’m supposed to be finishing [...]
Dear Ms Peyton,
May I call you Kathleen? In my head you will always be KM. I discovered you first through the TV series of Flambards, back in the early 80s. I’d recently moved back to NYC from London, and missed everything about England. Flambards had all that I longed for in a drama — the countryside, the [...]
Last Post
Actually, I’m hoping it isn’t my last post, but I feel I have to account for the possibility. Tomorrow at this time I’ll be hurtling cross country on a horse I’ve never met before, jumping over obstacles (most likely with my eyes closed) and trying not to look too much like what I really am [...]
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