This has been a whirlwind 30 hours or so. Yesterday I said goodbye to my lovely British publicist, Sarah, when we arrived in Manchester from Lytham St. Anne’s. She hopped off at Manchester central and I continued to the airport (that’s us, above, in Lytham St. Anne’s train station, including our cab driver’s shadow which […]

I think I’ve used this analogy before, but here goes. When my husband was a little boy, and he was having a really really awesome day, he’d say, “I’d better eat some green peas.” Because he HATED green peas (they came out of a tin in Sweden at that time). And he felt he needed […]

What an amazing couple of days. I managed to get through my talk yesterday at the CILIP YLG conference, and it went well I think. Librarians are a lovely, welcoming and forgiving bunch. I was disheartened to discover, however, that librarians in the UK are under fire (a true endangered species) even more so than […]

The trip so far: I landed on Thursday late morning at Heathrow, where I was met by a driver holding a sign with my name on it. This is how all flights should end, with someone holding a sign with your name on it, don’t you think? Better still a loved one, I suppose, but […]