I was invited to write a post about writing, for This Craft Called Writing, so I wrote a blog about the word ‘but’. It’s the most important word in a story creator’s vocabulary. Hopefully the post will explain why. http://lorrieporter.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/perfecting-your-story-pitch-with-lil-chase/#comments There is also a competition at the end to win signed copies of my books. [...]

I have just been signed up to write three more books – yay! It’s a brand new series of books called THE BOYS’ SCHOOL GIRLS, about a boys-only school that has just started taking in girls. There are only 10 girls in the whole year! The first book sees Lara start a club to make [...]

On 9th February I held a Secret competition at Waterstone’s in Ealing Broadway. Here are the best of the secrets… Aren’t they cool! COMPETTION WINNER – MOZZYANDCAT I have had my blanky since I was born and I still have it. Once I had a sleepover and my friend took a pic of me sleeping [...]

Great news – my Dishy Doctor BoyFriend has asked me to marry him!!! (And I said ‘yes’ ) He did it very romantically; he wrote a story about me and him and Stella, and the ending had a photo of him holding a ring. It was so sweet! So… as DD BF will no longer [...]

I was back at Waterstone’s at the beginning of December. The secret competition went so well last time, they asked me to run another one. Here are the top 5 top secrets (and as they are secrets, they are all under codenames): The Winning Secret by ELEANOR I have powers that lets me see the [...]