Despite having won 23 awards, met some fascinating celebrities and lived a little bit of the high life during my years on this earth, nothing has made me happier than receiving this feedback from the children at a school I…
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I am absolutely delighted to have been invited to become a Visiting Fellow of Solent University in Southampton. This follows my presentation to the PR and advertising students on Wednesday, at which I presented my career and highlights and anecdotes…
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Catapult will be heading to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair with big ambitions and first-class products with which to wow literary agents, film moguls, foreign publishing houses and others. But Bologna’s not the only big shiny nugget in the Catapult…
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I’ve just been hedonistic. I’ve returned from Ripon, from two days spent in the freezing cold with only a clinically insane jester as amusement, to tuck in to Amaretto Apricots accompanied by a glass of red wine. This is highly…
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Haven’t had the greatest of days today, to be honest, but that’s pretty much because I detest figures and I chose, at 7am, to start focusing on them. There was kind of a compelling reason for this – getting the…
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Have had a really eye opening day on the book front. You might say that started when I learned that an old friend had, unbeknown to me, bought ‘Rogue Elephants’ and could hear my voice as he was reading it! …
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It’s a Splashes Summer and the organisers of the All England Open Stone Skimming Championships are urging Aussies to find their inner steel and do what their cricket team seems unable to do and beat a Pom! The last time the…
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The last two weeks have been fantastic ones for the development of my third book (which would have been my first if circumstances hadn’t dictated otherwise). This is the big one. Although this has nothing to do with Catapult…
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Catapult PR has achieved another great feather in its food PR cap by winning the account of a Burnley-based food ‘empire’ that comprises both eateries and retail outlets across Lancashire and the talents and food delights of a top food…
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At the start of the week, I felt as though I was in the doldrums, in between things and drifting along, as things didn’t seem to be progressing to my timescale. I couldn’t feel more differently at the end of…
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