Once you’ve written the very best book you can, then the next hurdle to get over is agents (no offence, agents!). I think/hope I’m nearing this hurdle!! I used to be under the impression that once you got an agent you were practically guaranteed a publishing deal. When I first started writing I probably would have kissed the feet of any agent who offered to represent me. I still will be…
In terms of catching you up as to where I’m at currently, something else I did at the beginning of the summer was to write the script for the first episode of a CBBC-style series. As you may remember, last year I did a short online course on “Writing Drama” with Oxford Uni and this idea was my assignment for that. The BAFTA/Rocliffe Children’s Writing comp was coming round again (I hadn’t…
When I scrolled through the list of competitions at the Winchester Writers’ Festival earlier this year, I never imagined for a minute that I’d find myself entering the Feature Article one. For a start there were two children’s fiction categories that I could have entered B4 (codename) into, with very little effort. More importantly, perhaps, was the fact that I hadn’t written a “professional” article before, although I suppose I…
My lack of blogging in the last few months and the reason for this new look blog, are all tied up in the events of a couple of days back in June, when I went to the Winchester Writers’ Festival (you can refresh yourself on my preparation for it here, if you want). It was an inspiring, challenging and – dare I say it – life-changing conference. Friday could have just…
Hi, I'm Mel (you figured that out already though, right?!) and this is where I chat about things that relate to and inspire my writing, as well as share some of it.