About the Author

Hi, I'm Siân!

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my story, about The Adventures of Alfie and Pepper and Maimie in the Mobile.

The first one in the series is Alfie and Pepper go to the Farm Park. I wrote and recorded these stories whilst I was shielding in Lockdown, I am in remission from Hairy Cell Leukaemia and was deemed vulnerable. They are based on two dogs, that were a big part of my life, they were great characters and wonderful dogs. Alfie was a Border/Cairn Cross Terrier, a cheeky chappie and Pepper was a Welsh Border Collie, very wise and knowledgeable.

My name is Siân Lewin and I have made my home in Kinoulton, in the Vale of Belvoir, after moving 28 times in 65 years! I have lived in Germany, Bahrain, Singapore, Penang and the USA plus many other wonderful places. Kinoulton is now “home” hopefully for a very long time. The second series is called Maimie in the Mobile, which is about my granddaughter in Australia and our relationship through the mobile phone. Showing imagination can take you anywhere!

After 28 years in the housing industry, I decided to leave and try writing, alongside acting, having trained as an actor 44 years ago, sadly shielding during lockdown put a stop to the acting, so the writing took off!

During my time of shielding during the pandemic, I started writing about Alfie and Pepper and wrote 9 stories, of which the Farm Park is the first, I have also recorded the stories, in my little studio at home. Giving Alfie and Pepper their voices and characters, Pepper a gentle Welsh accent and Alfie his cheeky chappie voice. I really found it therapeutic and it certainly helped to keep me busy during quite a difficult time. The stories are aimed at children, between the age of 3 to 6 years old, although a lot of adults have enjoyed them too! I have now had the stories professionally filmed and they are available on YouTube and our website.

We have now self-published 10 books, which includes 2 from the Maimie in the Mobile series.

Alfie and Peppers stories are warm, caring and fun. Each story has a little life lesson in it, for instance when they go to the seaside, it’s about the importance of learning to swim. They start the story in bed and end in bed, showing children that it’s a good place to be at the end of the day, well certainly Alfie and Pepper think so!

Maimie in the Mobile, takes us on imaginative adventures, through the power of our imagination. My grandma name is Maimie and my granddaughter is Daisy. The first story takes us to Africa and the Serengeti national park, the second story takes us way back to see dinosaurs!

I have been involved through the books, with a variety of charities, some have included adults with learning difficulties and have loved the stories. We even had a day out at Sacrewell Heritage Farm & Country Centre, where we re-enacted the Farm Park story, having a picnic and visiting all the animals together.

The Adventures of Alfie and Pepper books were winners of Theo Paphitis of “Dragons Den” Small Business Sunday #SBS. I have met so many wonderful people through my stories.

Each of the published books are available to order on Amazon and to order from all good book shops. To listen to the stories please visit YouTube.

Part of any profits from the stories, go to The Dogs Trust, Alfie and Pepper would have approved!

Many thanks,

Siân

My Team

My Editor is Jen Parker of Fuzzy Flamingo

Jen is an award-winning business owner, editor and designer. Jen has edited all of my books and always goes that extra mile with her design as well. She put together our hardback of the first five stories of the adventures of

Alfie and Pepper. Her attention to detail is second to none and she even incorporated my picture, ISBN number and website on the back of the books.

Jen is very supportive and along with her children, who are big fans of our books, gives me great feedback!

My Illustrator is Alex Robins of Art-is-an Alex

Alex is a very talented artist and illustrator and as you can see in our 10 books, is brilliant!Both series are very different, we started with the adventures of Alfie and Pepper. As they were real dogs, I was able to give Alex lots of pictures of the 2 dogs and they are beautiful hand drawn illustrations which suit the style of these warm, caring and fun stories.

With Maimie in the Mobile, Alex used a different technique with the illustrations, much stronger and bolder and are perfect for the stories.

I am blessed to have found these two talented people and the books are everything I imagined and they have been instrumental in bringing them to print.

Filming my Stories

I've filmed all 7 The Adventures of Alfie and Pepper stories with the help of Simply Thrilled who are based in Nottingham.

Here are a couple of behind the scenes shots when we filmed Alfie and Pepper Move House.

Massive thanks to Derry, Todd, Louis and Albert.