Cult Pens Advent Calendars 2025 - Spoilers!
By Michael Randall, 8 comments
This post is just for people who want to know what's in our Cult Pens Advent Calendars for this year, and don't mind the surprise being spoiled. If you're thinking...
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Learning to Write Part 2: Supporting Your Left-Handed Child
By Anna Evans
Children develop hand dominance at around 3 to 5 years (but sometimes later). Hand dominance simply means that one hand becomes more active in leading activities such as writing or...
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Miss Wah: Artist of the Month - September 2013
By Anna Evans
Every month, we highlight the work of a different artist or illustrator through the title banner of our monthly newsletter - Penorama. If you don't already receive Penorama, you can...
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Learning to Write Part 1: The Skill of Handwriting
By Anna Evans
Writing is a vital and valuable skill which we use on a daily basis. For children, it’s a skill they have to learn and develop gradually. What does it take...
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Some Final Writing Thoughts
By Michael Randall
Guest post by Michael Jecks.. Until the next one … It's been three months now since I started writing this little diary blog with Cult Pens. I have to admit,...
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Libraries and Public Lending Right
By Michael Randall
A guest post by Michael Jecks... I had the “fun” this week of getting back to administration. People think it’s a delightful job, being an author. Well, yes it is....
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Signing - and not Signing
By Michael Randall
Guest post by Michael Jecks... This has been an enormously busy week. Launch weeks tend to be pretty loopy, but this one, with four books launched simultaneously and...
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Diary of a Writer - Competition Winner
By Michael Randall
Guest post by Michael Jecks... Before anything else, I must just say that I am enormously grateful to all of you for the entries to this little competition. I...
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Signings, Marketing and Morris!
By Michael Randall
Guest post by Michael Jecks... First, let me apologise. This is late on a Thursday night after signing a lot of books, and I am, in short, exhausted....
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The Process of Publishing a Book
By Michael Randall
Guest post by Michael Jecks... There are times in the life of every author when they begin to feel they're going stir crazy. It's usually at this time...
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Morris, Mayhem and Marketing
By Michael Randall
Guest post by Michael Jecks... This week has been rather lovely! It all kicked off with a wonderful Saturday, the first day in ages that has been warm and...
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The Wonders of Old Technology
By Michael Randall
Guest post by Michael Jecks... Many years ago now, back in the early 1990s, I was sitting in the New Cavendish Club in London, enjoying drinks with some...
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Keeping it Simple
By Michael Randall
Guest post by Michael Jecks... For a writer, to sit indoors and stare out when the weather is fine is a form of torture. The urge to nip out and...
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It's not all Champagne and Caviare
By Michael Randall
Guest post by Michael Jecks... On Sunday, I finally finished the last proofs of the three books to be published in July. That was a relief. Two weeks to...
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