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It's not the end of the world - Lily Hyde 27 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
“Oh please recommend us some books to read!” a young avid reader and her mother fell over each other to ask me recently. They sounded as desperate as if they had been living on a desert island in an ...
How to be Creative - Andrew Strong 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
I’m not sure whether creativity is as complex as writers of books on creativity would like us to think, and books on creativity are not in short supply, which suggests that the writers of these books ...
Ten Things I Wish I'd Known by Tamsyn Murray 25 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
It's been three years since my first book was published and I like to think I've learned a lot in that time. Things like how royalties work (erm...) and what publishers want (erm...) and the secret of...
Never Say Never - The Story of a Sequel: by Anne Cassidy 24 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
This time ten years ago I was probably reading through the proofs of my book LOOKING FOR JJ, which was to be published in the following January (2004). This was my seventeenth novel and truthfully spe...
Researching the Market - Lynne Garner 23 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
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Who to blame when a bookshop bites the dust? - by Nicola Morgan 22 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
The sad news came last week of the closure of The Lion and Unicorn bookshop in Richmond. I'll pause for a few moments while you go and read the story behind this closure. *hums a gloomy tune* So, th...
Read for My School Competition - Megan Rix 21 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Normal 0 false false false false EN-GB JA X-NONE Earlier this year one of my books ‘The Great Escape,’ set at the start of WW2, was featured in the Read for My School project. The competition...
'"Big" is a Banned Word in Our Classroom...' Musings on Creative Writing and SATs - Cecilia Busby 20 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
I'm butting in here, slightly, as someone who's not normally a regular contributor to ABBA. But there are some things that have been brewing in my head for a while to do with writing in schools. The r...
Do YOU Hate 'Strong' Female Characters? - Lucy Coats 19 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Last week's New Statesman article by Sophia McDougall, entitled 'I Hate Strong Female Characters' went viral on Twitter and created a storm in the comments box. Of course, McDougall was courting cont...
It's all up in the air- Creativity is so fragile - Linda Strachan 18 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
I am travelling in time as I write this blog in July. 'At present I feel like there are all these fragile bubbles floating about in my head..' By the time you read this, in the middle of August, I w...
