I have a wonderful agent called Sophie Hicks, and this year she has established her own agency called Sophie Hicks Agency. You can also find her on Twitter at @SophieHicksAg
My publishers for The Butterfly Heart as well as for The Sleeping Baobab Tree are Walker Books, also in London. They have for over thirty years been producing aastonishing books for children and young adults and I am delighted they chose to publish two of mine.
You can contact me directly at paula(dot)leyden(AT)outlook.com (apologies for the DOT and AT but it is to try and cut down on spammers…)
The Butterfly Heart and The Sleeping Baobab Tree 
Wow Paula, I really love your description of Zambia as a butterfly, beautiful but fragile. I have always just seen it as histories joke on those of us who, as students, had to draw the map.Shows how much imagination I have! I am definitely adopting your description, far more poetic. I look forward to reading the book. Good lucK with it all.
Thanks Mwanabibi, I remember drawing the map as well – and at that stage never thought of it as a butterfly … ! But now I do. Thanks for your good wishes.
Hi Paula, Congrats on getting on the CBI book awards shortlist. You totally deserve it for your beautiful book…mind you I’m dead jealous! I hope you win it. All the best, John Newman
Thank you John, you’re very good and I am perfectly thrilled by it. Sorry you are not there with Tao!
My 12 year old daughter is very keen on the characters in The Sleeping Baobab Tree and the butterfly heart, and would love to read another book in the series…She is rereading the two that there are to go on with…(are we hinting too hard?)
Hi Izzy I am delighted she is enjoying them – I am in the middle of a debate with myself as to whether to write a third one (!) so your comments might spur me on.