Thank you to everyone to entered the draw to win signed copies of my new books The Snowflake Mistake and Letter to Pluto. To be in with a chance, I asked you to comment with your favourite writing tip. If you haven’t read the comments, there’s some brilliant tips there including keeping a compliments jar, listening to conversations around you (in the non-stalker sense!), using prompts, spending time with nature and reading widely.
The winner is…. Michelle Zal! Michelle, please email me at lou dot treleaven at sky dot com with your address and the dedications you would like on the books and I will post them off to you.
I had a lovely time recently doing two workshops and some book signing at the Booktastic Bedford Children’s Book Festival, which was held this year at the Panacea Museum. I got to meet author Guy Bass too, author of Stitch Head and about a million other books (would love to be that productive and talented!). The event was sponsored by Rogan’s Books, a new independent children’s bookshop which is not like any other bookshop you will have been to – it even has a secret door! Check it out here.
Lou Treleaven 
Just imagine wonderful words that beg to be written and then begin to write, write, write.
Love the compliment jar idea could do that for crafting too!