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Showing posts with label Getting Published. Show all posts
Monday, 10 October 2016

Q&A with Inbali Iserles: How to write a series about magical foxes

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By Candy Gourlay @Inbali_Iserles  Last year my beautiful friend Inbali Iserles managed not only to work as a lawyer, but to have ...
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Monday, 7 December 2015

Am I Repeating Myself? Am I Repeating Myself?

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By Nick Cross When I started writing this post, it was because I was in the dreaded state of being BETWEEN BOOKS. I waffled on for 500 ...
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Monday, 27 July 2015

Pat Walsh - Keep Writing, Keep Reading and Never Give Up

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Pat Walsh is one of my tip-top favourite writers. I relish her beautiful prose, I admire her sparkling story-telling and her characterisatio...
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Monday, 6 July 2015

Stats from the Slushpile: A Decade of Dreaming

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By Nick Cross Hello again, slush fans. As anyone who's seen my Museum of Me series will attest, I like to keep hold of stuff from m...
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Monday, 15 June 2015

We are Liars. And Editors are Just Readers

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By  Candy Gourlay Here's a report from the AFCC's first retreat for writers and illustrators on Bintan Island in Indonesia, wh...
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Saturday, 4 April 2015

How We Live Now

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By Candy Gourlay Last week, my friend  Nick Cross waxed nostalgic over on the SCBWI Blog Network , looking up the early days of long time...
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Friday, 18 April 2014

The View from my Desk - Easter 2014

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Beverley Birch is friend and mentor to many slushpilers and published authors alike. She was a senior commissioning editor for Hodder Chil...
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Friday, 28 February 2014

Through the Slushpile Spectacles - Are Children's Writers a Breed Apart?

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by Addy Farmer Peering through my spectacles this week, I spotted this interesting article in The Guardian.  It examined the reaction ...
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Saturday, 5 October 2013

Authors will have choices - thoughts on the morning after the Agents' Party

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By Candy Gourlay Last Thursday, I attended the Agents' Party, a yearly SCBWI event that I stopped attending when I got signed by my ag...
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Friday, 3 May 2013

Playing with Peril: Fairies in Children's Books

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by guest blogger, Paula Harrison Paula Harrison is the author of Faerie Tribes (for older readers) and The Rescue Princesses (a ...
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Saturday, 15 December 2012

5th Day of Christmas: Commissioning Editor Ruth Williams of Picadilly Press

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Five Fervent Wishes from Ruth William of Piccadilly Press
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Monday, 3 September 2012

Concept, concept, concept – A publisher’s dream, a writer’s minefield

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by Jo Wyton   Over the weekend, I wrote and posted a piece on my own blog about High Concept books from a reader’s perspective. But I’...
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Monday, 12 March 2012

The Book of Never Letting Go

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by Addy Farmer So here it is. Finished. For some weird reason, I'm almost ashamed to admit that the manuscript for my 12 plus novel ha...
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Thursday, 24 November 2011

Great Expectations - the SCBWI Winchester Conference and Candy Gourlay

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by Addy Farmer & all the rest of the Slushpile gang, except one: surprise, Candy!! Stand up for the outstanding Candy Gourlay! ...
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Monday, 19 September 2011

Finding your voice - a SCBWI masterclass with Beverley Birch

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By Addy Farmer The lovely Beverley Birch! How do you make Beverley Birch sit up straight? How do make a senior commissioning editor...
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