February 2012 Blog Posts (23)

Take your pick from:

‘The 36 Dramatic Situations’ by Georges Polti, a 19^th century analysis of Greek myths. Some of his thirty-six have a dozen or more sub-situations. Phew.

Includes: Slaying of a Kinsmen Unrecognised, Murderous Adultery, etc etc (you know…  Greek myths)

‘20 Master Plots and How to Build Them’ by Ronald B Tobias of the Tennessee Screenwriting Association.

Includes: Rescue, Revenge, Rivalry, Rags-to-Riches and…

Julia Churchill is a dynamic, well-respected literary agent with Greenhouse Literary Agency, an international agency, started by Sarah Davies in 2008. Greenhouse represents some of our lovely SCBWI-BI pals - Jon Mayhew, Sarwat Chadda, Harriet Goodwin and Leila Rasheed – and many more besides. Julia is also involved with SCBWI-BI and gives generously of her time. Although Julia and I have not yet met, we’ve had several email interactions and Julia always strikes me as being friendly,…

I haven't got time to write a blog post! Don't you know I have a deadline?

http://www.whoatemybrain.com/2012/02/deadline-dash.html

http://mrsbung.wordpress.com/

Let me know what's made you a better writer?!

As terrifying as it was, we both made it through without stuttering (I think)...

http://sallypoyton.blogspot.com/2012/02/writers-on-radio-jo-wyton-and-me-sally.html

School Visits, Creative Writing Workshops for Children, and Talks to Adults

I write short stories for small press magazines, reader letters to writing, health and green magazines and children's and adult fiction. 

I am available for:…

Are vision statements only useful for padding out boring corporate presentations?

http://www.whoatemybrain.com/2012/02/one-vision.html

Every so often a tree in our village transforms into a Book Tree, full of kids books for book crossing. It’s magical, and as you can see keeps my small people amused, which is fantastic in half…

I found these original 1960's Mills & Boon romances in a junk shop, and loved the cover designs.

They seemed perfect to post on Valentine's…

I was fortunate enough to meet literary agent, Erzsi Deàk at last year’s South African SCBWI conference. The first thing that struck me was Erzsi’s humour, the second was her enthusiasm and willingness to give of her time, the third was her knowledge of the industry, and the fourth was her no nonsense approach.

To read the full interview, pleast go to Absolute…

My descent into full-blown has-been status proves surprisingly freeing:

http://www.whoatemybrain.com/2012/02/nothing-to-prove.html

I'm no artist (evidence below!), but have just spent a fun few hours making a flyer for my ebook!

Today's post on tall tales & short stories features author, Rachel Wolfreys.

To enter the draw to win a copy of the anthology, please leave a comment on the blog.

Today's post on tall tales & short stories features author, Jane Hardstaff.

To enter the draw to win a copy of the anthology, please leave a comment on the blog.

Every day for the next two weeks, tall tales & short stories, will be highlighting the authors and illustrators featured in the 2012 Undiscovered Voices anthology.
Running alongside the posts is a chance to enter a draw to win one of two copies of the anthology.
Details can be found on the blog.

Today's post features author, Sharon Jones.

Few things frustrate me more than a manuscript that's too long. I don't mean that it drags in the middle (because I'm sure yours doesn't) -- I mean that according to industry conventions, it's simply too long to be considered for publication.



Publishers have quite specific ideas about how long debut middlegrade and young adult novels should be. (Once your first book is a runaway success, you'll have a much better chance at convincing your publisher to let you your books be…

Every day for the next two weeks, tall tales & short stories, will be highlighting the authors and illustrators featured in the 2012 Undiscovered Voices anthology.

Running alongside the posts is a chance to enter a draw to win one of two copies of the anthology.

Details can be found on the blog.…

I'm still here, honest - it just seems like I'm Living Under a Rock.

Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2012

published by Scholastic

(Jan 3rd 2011)

“A beautifully written, touching and emotive…