A while ago, I discovered I was good at two things: instruction and writing about English literature. Blood and Ink is the result.

The intention is to offer focused, practical insights that support subject knowledge and classroom practice. I do like the challenge of trying to find the back door into a topic - or even an obligingly unlocked basement window. I work entirely on the principle that where you find informed teachers, you'll likely find engaged students.  Novel intrigue is something that unites us all.

Blood & Ink draws on over 30 years of my experience across law, education, the Arts, publishing, community development and a lifelong commitment to reading literature and history. It is - first and foremost - a writing project. Like all writers, it matters to me that you want to read on.

Drafting the content that foregrounded Blood & Ink began as a way to share with colleagues, but also to unleash at a time when I didn't feel I had much of a voice. I sought to refine my own thinking about teaching and communicate with the English teachers of a new generation of students who consider 'sharing' to be entirely the norm and AI to be a convenient way to bypass the metacognitive process altogether. 

Metacognitive excellence and the retention of knowledge are skills we should be honing in the classroom, now more than ever. Exam results are so important, but so are the means by which they are obtained.

So, as ever, it begins with the teachers. If you like what you read, please make contact. We should be friends.  

Best wishes,

Jennie