Part of my day with the Royal Society of Edinburgh Christmas Lecture last year included answering questions for their Quiz-a-Whiz series, while looking ever so slightly insane. They made 2 short videos, one on "Writing Novels and Short Stories" and one on "Space, Aliens and Science Fiction", and here you go -
Quiz-a-Whiz is an excellent series covering a wide range of topics and featuring a wide range of, er, whizzes. You can have a browse here - enjoy!
Here's a lovely article by Leah Seator in The Orcadian about Silver Skin and the Scottish Teenage Book Prize (if you click on it you can make it go bigger) from a week back -
There are many ways of telling that spring is finally on its way - blossoming trees, enthusiastic sparrows, snowdrops and crocuses and the first of the daffodils. Or the way a particular kind of afternoon light catches a sleepy cat.
I've got photos from the various school events of my Outer Hebrides visit coming, but first, some where I'm behind the camera - my favourite place, believe me!
I live and write in the Kingdom of Fife, overlooking the River Tay, with a view of trees and grey slate roofs and a skyscape it would be hard to better.
