Happy Mother's Day

It's Mothers Day here in the Britain today and it's time to reflect on how important mothers are in our lives.

Encouragement

For us our mother is the reason we are writers. From a young ages she encouraged our love in reading with plenty of books and never complained of frequent trips to the library as we developed into ferocious little readers who could easily read a book in a night.

New Worlds

The adventures of Mrs Pepperpot, Winnie the Pooh, Paddington, Narnia, The Worst Witch, The Box of Delights and Charlie & The Chocolate Factory let us find new friends and explore new worlds. We discovered authors and plundered their treasures, like explorers discovering lost cities and new civilizations, excited and eager to discover the next surprise with each turn of the page.

Mum never complained of evenings with our heads in buried in books or meals hurried through so we could return to the page. And even when she found us reading under blankets by torchlight late into the night, she would gently suggest that we would be tired in the morning. But she would always let us finish the page or chapter.

Reason for Writing

Our mother is the rock upon which our love for stories are built. She is the one who let us dream, who we told we wanted to be writers when we grew up. She never suggested a sensible job, even when the road to that dream was long, hard and winding. It was her love, support and belief in us that is the reason we write today, the reason we write everyday and she will be the reason we will write tomorrow.

Thank you Mum & Happy Mother's Day

M & J