For lovers of squeam…
Mwah ha haaaaa… Every Friday at 5pm (UK time) Jamie Rix will post a new reading of one of his Grizzly Tales – you’ll find the Grizzly Tales channel on YouTube here. Jamie [...]
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Posted XpoNorth Writers’ Tweet Pitch 2021 – January 15th!
It’s back! The annual XPoNorth Writers’ Tweet Pitch! We’ll be among the many literary agents and publishers glued to their twitter feeds from 9am to 9pm on January 15th. You can [...]
Tanya Landman
The ability to write for different age-groups and in different genres isn’t a skill with which all writers are blessed. But Tanya Landman, whose first novel, Waking Merlin, was published in [...]
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Posted Support relating to the impact of Covid-19
Here are some sources of support for writers and illustrators in these challenging times. The Authors’ Emergency Fund launched by the Society of Authors – a joint initiative with the [...]
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Posted Interesting times – stay safe
These are interesting – if tough – times for us all. We’re fortunate in being able to continue to work very much as normal – and the publishing industry has responded [...]
One Shot… one take…
Tanya Landman‘s One Shot – a story inspired by the early life of the great Annie Oakley – has been announced as the winner of this year’s Scottish Teenage Book Prize [...]
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Posted The January Writers’ Tweet Pitch – why not pitch in?
Friday 10th January sees the return of the popular XpoNorth Writers’ Tweet Pitch – from 9am to 9pm literary agents and publishers in Scotland will be glued to their Twitter feed, [...]
Foreign editions galore!
While the endless, grinding Brexit non-information sounds as if we’re about to be (forcibly) separated from the rest of the world – the world of children’s books is all about [...]
Cake, anybody?
At the launch of the paperback edition of Black Snow Falling at the Edinburgh Bookshop, the author, L J MacWhirter – Liz to her friends – unveiled a fabulous cake. [...]
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Posted Walking Mountain by Joan Lennon
At various meetings with editors in London last week, amidst the pitching of FANTASTIC new books by writers and illustrators represented by Fraser Ross Associates, we found ourselves revisiting [...]