Welcome to my Links page.  Here you'll find links to my publisher, Brown Barn Books and to some of my favourite research sites.

www.brownbarnbooks.com   Brown Barn Books:  An exciting new publisher of books for young adults.

www.bookcentre.ca  Canadian Children's Book Centre:  The Secret Shelter was included in their 2005 Our Choice Awards.

www.scbwi.org  Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. 

www.write4kids.com  An excellent site for writers, both new and experienced.

www.smartwriters.com  For everyone who writes, reads, or teaches literature for young people.  There's a special section for younger writers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/  An excellent, interactive site intended for younger users, but very interesting to people of all ages!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/Read  Stories by real people who lived through the war.

http://www.britishpathe.com/  Watch the news as it happened.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/bobhome.html  An excellent site about the Battle of Britain.  It even tells you what the weather was like on each day of autumn, 1940!

http://www.petrifiedbaggage.com  Nothing to do with writing or research, but if you want a brilliant, one-of-a-kind, handmade bag to carry your copy of The Secret Shelter in, check out this site.

http://www.communigate.co.uk/london/pengeforum/index.phtml  Lots of information on Penge

www.lynnsinclair.com  Lynn Sinclair is a very talented writer who is also published by Brown Barn Books.  Lynn's book, Key to Aten, is the first in the Chronicals of Aten.