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By Addy Farmer
Featuring Janet Foxley, Caroline Green and Helen Peters
On Notes from the Slushpile, we chronicle the slings and arrows of trying to make a dream come true so we get embarrassingly excited about debut authors. Last week, we launched our new series That’ll Be The Debut, where we meet debut authors and get the lowdown on what life is like beyond the Slushpile. Here is the second of
Wonderful interview - I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Thanks!
Gosh ... a propos nothing at all, that made me feel like redecorating my living room. Congrats, you guys - so proud of what you've achieved. And thumbs up on the advice about critique - all those years without a critique group now seems like time wasted to me.
Ooooh, working with an editor: I'm looking forward to that. Interesting to get glimpses behind the scenes.<br /><br />And Candy: whatever did you mean when noting Helen was one of the focused ones at the retreat... 'unlike some'?!?
Really enjoyed this blog, always encouraging to hear how long it takes everyone to write their first book! My kids are nagging me Janet, to know when the next Muncle trogg is out? We have bought eight copies so far as my son keeps wanting to give them as birthday pressies to his friends at school.
hmmm, my kitchen's looking a bit dodgy ...
@Teri your reaction just reeks of guilt.
I'm really enjoying this series - can't wait for part three! Candy, ever thought of a job designing book covers?
heh heh if i had a lot of time, i would redesign the book covers of my favourite books! fan art! mind you, i'm sure there's loads of mysterious commercial reasons why that cover would be wrong.
Well, we had to take my fan art down for various complicated reasons but you can still view it <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B53RBS4q9aA/ThDa5XgI78I/AAAAAAAAAwM/19_8wkh6HK8/s1600/henhousetheatre.jpg" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Just remember it's not the real thing.
I'm loving the facebook interviews. My daughter got very excited at school the other day when she spotted a big advert for Muncle on the front of a book club flyer. She told anyone and everyone who would listen - 'I know her, I know the author!'<br />Then she had to get back to teaching.
Another fascinating interview and proof that if you keep writing (and reading) and believing, one day the dream will come true.<br /><br />I was at the launch for Dark Ride and started reading my copy on the train home. I got so engrossed I nearly missed my stop. <br /><br />I've now added Muncle Trogg and The Secret Henhouse Theatre to my book wish list. I think I may need to go on some
Cor, thanks Dave! Will be right at the front of that queue when yours is out, that's for sure....
Good to hear from Helen about how useful my critique group was to her current success. I remember very well inviting you to join Helen after a SCWBI Retreat. And my group was also praised by Candy's editor at the SCWBI Conference last year. Bella Pearson said how ready Tall Story was for publication because of the level of critique it had already received. Heady days.
Yes, absolutely everyone can benefit from a critique group, and the great thing is that the help and advice is mutual. I used ms advice serves instead, and while they were really helpful, I think I missed the give-and-take of a peer critique group where one can offer advice as well as get it. I've heard great things about the SCBWI crit groups where the help goes all ways, and no one person
It all sounds wonderful - and clearly very productive! Like Gillian, I haven't experienced a SCBWI-type support group myself, but I can imagine that having advice passed from peer to peer, so to speak, rather than being handed down from above, must be particularly helpful.
Sounds like a good group, Miriam! And it's clear how mutually supportive it must be; I know you've said how much your own work has benefited from it too. But then, I'd actually say the same for SCWBI as a whole. Most of the members I've met are SO professional and supportive of each other, as children's writers all on the same path. And personally, I love it when my former
Just realised I got that dratted acronym wrong. Fortunately, you all know exactly what I meant anyway. Phew!
I sometimes think for the 'craft of writing' one should read the 'graft of writing'. As our debs and just about every other writer and illustrator I've met has shown, there's no substitute for hard work and stickability. <br />There's also nothing like the enveloping hug that is the productive support of fellow grafters. <br />Thanks for all your comments, so good to