There’s a special page for this month’s journal. Click here to read about our visit to the Unter deinem Stern film set. We had a fabulous time meeting the team that is turning my first novel into a film for television. I so enjoyed my first trip to Berlin, seeing everything from Checkpoint Charlie to beautiful Charlottenburg.

More exciting news on the film front this month – Flights of Angels (Unter deinem Stern) – started filming in Berlin and we’ve been invited to visit the set next month. This will be my first time on a film set and I can’t believe that it’s because of a story I wrote. I hope to have lots of pictures to share with you in next month’s journal!

I also have a children’s book out: Lucky Six – Breaking and Entering. Published by Egmont and written under the name, Becky Rainbird, it’s a fun adventure about six stage-school super sleuths.

This month also celebrated the publication of my friend, Giselle Green’s first novel, Pandora’s Box – a moving story about family, friendship, love and loss. Here’s a pic of us enjoying a sunny launch in her lovely garden.

This month, I went to the Oxford Literature Festival to hear children’s author David Almond speak. He was wonderful. He’d brought in some of his notebooks to show the audience how messy the writing process is for him and explained how he loved seeing the transformation into the neat lines of a published book.

It was also the London Book Fair and I went along to Earl’s Court to meet my lovely agents from Zurich and New York for the first time.

Unfortunately, it’s been a very mixed month on the writing front because two of the projects I started earlier in the year have been axed for one reason or another. But the good news is that I’ve begun a new project and this seems to have some staying power and I’m enjoying it very much! It’s the first in a new children’s series called Collingwood Castle about a young family who inherit a medieval castle in the north of England.

And, to make sure I don’t spend too much time at my desk, I took up Kickboxing and Karate this month. So, if the heroes and heroines in my children’s adventure stories get into a scrape, they will be able to execute a few neat moves!

On the movie front, I hear that Flights of Angels, (Unter deinem Stern) is going to be filmed in Berlin. Watch this space for more news soon …