I want to talk about how my writing journey that started, way back in 2012 or 2013.

 At the time I was living and working in Switzerland.  Our home village was Lengnau and just along the road was another village called Endingen.

 One Sunday, we were out on a family walk and on Sundays in Switzerland it is polite to be as quiet as possible.

 My beautiful Daughter Leyna, who was very young at the time, decided to have the biggest ever temper tantrum.

 I think she woke all the neighbours and wildlife up.  But fear not!!, Daddy to the rescue!!

 I tried to distract here by pointing at a manhole cover that I knew was carrying water from the local streams.

 We spoke about what Mrs Mole was doing, of course she was busy running Mr. Mole a lovely hot bath to soothe his aching paws after a very hard day of burrowing.

 To my surprise this story calmed her down nicely, and the next day Callum, her older Brother, was asking me for stories when we were walking in Endingen, hence the name of our wee hero and some many of the book’s characters are based on the wildlife in this part of Switzerland!

 I must have spent about two years writing the story before I self-published it through amazon.  It was reviewed by Kirkus and received some really favourable words.

 For the next few years, I had been totally engrossed in poetry writing and so my children’s book writing was put to one side.

 Last year though, I started to think about a sequel and possibly a trilogy (you never know!) and very soon plotlines, characters new and old started to come quite quickly.

 I have decided the book will be called “Bran – White Raven”

 So here we are in 2025, and I have completed 6 full chapters, and so far, this is proving really enjoyable, apart from occasionally waking at very odd hours having to note down a plotline or two.

 Over the coming weeks and months, I will be adding some teaser text and maybe a character bios to my blogs so that you can feel part of the journey with me.

 Stay safe and happy!