My novels

Novels I have written… many set around the fictional town of Easthope, but others set in the North of England.
Stories I have written for young people, who may be literate and even fluent at reading but are reluctant to do so. it is hoped that this would lead them to be creative with language and maybe write themselves.
Writing guides
Anthologies and collaborations

Names, naming and words by Lois

Powdering noses

I was looking back over some old posts and came across this which I wrote while working on my novel, Loving Judah. I was thinking of phrases which have disappeared… at one point in ‘Loving Judah’ Aislin says she needs to ‘powder her nose’, a phrase her grandma used for visiting the bathroom. Bavol who is younger than her, doesn’t understand […]

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My novels by Lois

Frowning as I write

I was pounding away at the keyboard, totally immersed in what I was writing; I broke off for a minute to have a drink and realised I was relaxing my face because I had been frowning intently… I wasn’t frowning with concentration, I was actually frowning because the character I was writing about was deep in […]

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