Ellie Phillips

Am thinking about time travel

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:11:00 +0100

…..and portals. How you get from one timezone to the next. A police call-box, a wardrobe, the bed in Charlotte Sometimes, under the mailbox in When You Reach Me, cellar-door.I think I just gave myself a great excuse to re-watch Donnie Darko …..

Nuru Kane in Sheffield last night. We sang. We danced. Great...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:08:29 +0100

Nuru Kane in Sheffield last night. We sang. We danced. Great night.

and I love this too!

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:33:52 +0000

and I love this too!

I love this…

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:05:56 +0000

I love this…

Do you dare to cut your hair short?

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:03:14 +0000

My heroine, Sadie Nathanson, is all about the hair. She loves trying out new styles and colours. This is ironic really as I have had approximately the same hairstyle since about 1987 and I cut my hair myself and am absolutely terrified of visiting the hairdresser. I can trace this back to the trauma of having my haircut against my will when I started at a new school. I had longish curly hair and Mum told the hairdresser to crop it short. When I look at the photos now I can see it was a cute pixie cut but at the time I hated it. I just came across this in Glamour Magazine;

http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/beauty-and-hair/celebrity/hair/2011/05/celebrities-with-pixie-crops-hairstyle

and it totally reminded me how great short hair can be.
I just wish I was braver!

Very excited to see my two book covers side by side -...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:22:17 +0000

Very excited to see my two book covers side by side - can’t wait to share the new Sadie book - 1st July!

Scissors, Sisters and Manic Panics is hotly anticipated!

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:08:25 +0000

Scissors, Sisters and Manic Panics is hotly anticipated!

Oh Yeah! Scissors, Sisters and Manic Panics is on Amazon

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:00:35 +0000

Oh Yeah! Scissors, Sisters and Manic Panics is on Amazon:

The follow-up to Dads, Geeks and Blue-haired Freaks is searchable on Amazon already. Only 4 months to go……

Dads, Geeks and Blue-haired Freaks Lives up to its Funny Title!

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:21:45 +0000

Dads, Geeks and Blue-haired Freaks Lives up to its Funny Title!:

Nice review from some lovely people in Australia

Sadie: Book 2

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:01:46 +0000

Wow! Have just finished editing the sequel to ‘Dads, Geeks and Blue-Haired Freaks’.

Am really excited about Sadie’s newest outing. There’s going to be some surprises in store for EVERYONE. That is all I’m saying. I’ll pop the cover up as soon as I get it.

Oh - and btw it’s called ‘Scissors, Sisters and Manic Panics’.

I loved My Fair Lady at the Crucible

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:28:52 +0000

Just went to see this

http://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/event/my-fair-lady-12/

at the Crucible in Sheffield. Fantastic. If it goes on tour; get a ticket!

Watch this: Growing Up Poor - Girls

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:25:44 +0000

Watch this: Growing Up Poor - Girls:

Watch this documentary on BBC3.

These girls are all very different and growing up in hugely difficult circumstances. Amber at least has her mother’s support but Bridie and Shelby are cut adrift too young in a very harsh world.

I hope they all get to a better place very soon.

They like me in Malaysia!

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:33:14 +0000

Hope everyone has had good Christmases and is starting the New Year with a whole string of self-improving resolutions!

No?

Me neither.

But I did get a nice review in The Star so that’s got 2013 off to a great start!

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2013/1/4/lifebookshelf/12527324&sec=lifebookshelf

Introducing my sister’s dog Harvey - I just had to put...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:24:00 +0000

Introducing my sister’s dog Harvey - I just had to put this up because he is so damn cute (and that’s coming from a cat person) and he also lives in a children’s bookshop so he’s a big cheese in publishing

Dads, Geeks is a not-quite blockbuster!

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:43:00 +0000

Dads, Geeks is a not-quite blockbuster!

I got a nice review in Inis - Children's Books Ireland Magazine

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:07:00 +0000

I got a nice review in Inis - Children's Books Ireland Magazine

I learned how to drive a bus today at Manby Motorplex. I...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:00:00 +0000

any more fares please?

my bus; a leyland 1981

Concentration!

I learned how to drive a bus today at Manby Motorplex. I reversed around a corner, went round a roundabout, through a frenzy of cones and I did a three point turn ON A DOUBLE DECKER!

Photo

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:42:31 +0000

We had a fantastic time at Debbie Isitt’s brilliant...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:50:00 +0000

We had a fantastic time at Debbie Isitt’s brilliant Nativity 2 premiere screening at the Empire, Leicester Square and glam after party at the Cafe de Paris. Like Nativity 1 - this is a family movie with laughs provided by some genuinely talented kids and with a little help from David Tennant, Marc Wootton, Jessica Stevenson, Jason Watkins, Pam Ferris and Joanna Page. The film definitely belongs to the kids though.

Diagnosis by Sharon Olds

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:31:35 +0100

By the time I was six months old, she knew something

was wrong with me. I got looks on my face

she had not seen on any child

in the family, or the extended family,

or the neighborhood. My mother took me in

to the pediatrician with the kind hands,

a doctor with a name like a suit size for a wheel:

Hub Long. My mom did not tell him

what she thought in truth, that I was Possessed.

It was just these strange looks on my face -

he held me, and conversed with me,

chatting as one does with a baby, and my mother

said, She’s doing it now! Look!

she’s doing it now! and the doctor said

What your daughter has

is called a sense

of humor. Ohhh, she said and took me

back to the house where that sense would be tested

and found to be incurable.