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Nerdy and Women-Based Charities You Can Support This Giving Tuesday!

Nerdy and Women-Based Charities You Can Support This Giving Tuesday!

Our world seems a little chaotic these days, so in light of Giving Tuesday we have put together a list of Nerdy and Women-Based charities to direct your good towards this year.  Let’s help make the world a better place:

International Rescue Committee 

In the words of a Disney-based red crab, “the human world, it’s a mess.” Thankfully, there are groups like the International Rescue Committee here…

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Fear with a safety net: Why children should read scary books

Fear with a safety net: Why children should read scary books

As part of the Warhammer Adventures promotional tour, I was asked to write a piece on scary books for children for the Book Trust.

You can read it here!

Let me know if you agree in the comments below.

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[museumwales]

Author Nicola Davies recently visited National Museum Cardiff and made this video to show how the museum is a treasure trove of ideas and inspiration for creative writing.

Read more on the Book Trust website.

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Bed time routine - Bath Book Bed | Book Trust 2018

Bed time routine – Bath Book Bed | Book Trust 2018

I’ve written recently about how we’ve struggled with sleep, our struggles with night wakes and with sleep regressions. One thing we did struggle with for awhile was getting H to bed, but since introducing bath, book, bed routine two years ago that struggle has been minimised. So it’s time for an update, no we’ve not solved all our night wake issues with Baby B, but that’s for another post. Here…

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A Story on Poverty and Literacy Levels in Nottingham, East Midlands, UK

A Story on Poverty and Low Literacy Levels in Nottingham #Nottingham #notts #ukpolitics @UniofNottingham @TrentUni

In 2010 The Guardian revealed that Nottingham had one of the worst reading and writing rates in the UK. By age eleven, 15% of boys and 10% of girls were two stages below their expected reading level in school. Children in the East Midlands performed particularly poorly in phonics – the ability to break down words into segmented sounds. Since then, various organizations have come together to…

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Chef Paris Nabavi launches Restaurants Support Vital Programs to help Maui nonprofits

Chef Paris Nabavi launches Restaurants Support Vital Programs to help Maui nonprofits

Chef Paris Nabavi has launched Maui RSVP (Restaurants Support Vital Programs), a dining promotion to raise money for eight Maui nonprofits that focus on youth in agriculture, arts, education, and wellness. For a 10-day period from May 27 to June 5, 2016 participating restaurants will each offer a 50 percent discount on selected entrees from 5-8pm.

Businesses and individuals, as well as food…

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Goings on

I really haven't blogged for a while. Has blogging become an oxymoron? I used to read blogs and now seldom do. Why? I don't have the time and so many blogs are rubbish. Besides, I do 140 character updates on Twitter that uploads automatically to my Facebook and blog. And any time I do have should be spent on writing related to my fiction. Anyway, the good news is I just finished a short story which I sent off to Booktrust in the UK who run a short story competition in conjunction with the BBC. I'm sure there will be tons of entries and chances are very slim, but if you're not in you can't win. In any event, it got me writing fiction again which is important. I've been working very hard on the screenplay of a Son Called Gabriel And meanwhile my UK publisher is wanting to move on my second novel--which is great but will require more work. Shouldn't complain. I'm not. Good to be busy. And on top of that, I've just read that Primeminster David Cameron has apologized for the massacre on Bloody Sunday in 1972 in Derry. That is the proper thing to do. My Mum and Dad were at that march and my Mum returned with her knees all bloodied. She'd crawled along the streets as the bullets flew over her head. We kids were terrified when we saw her. You never think of your Mum and Dad being a passionate civil rights marcher