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Interview with Steve Hartley

Steve Hartley was one of the winners of the inaugural SCBWI-BI’s 2008 ‘Undiscovered Voices’ competition. After his SCBWI win, Steve successfully achieved agent representation with Sarah Manson and went on to sign a four book publishing deal. Steve’s winning entry, DANNY BAKER RECORD BREAKER, is published on the 1st January 2010. You can read an interview with Steve here - http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on November 30, 2009 at 6:47pm — No Comments

HOW TO MARKET YOUR BOOK AND A COMPETITION!!

After celebrating Candy Gourlay's wonderful book deal news on my blog, I return to the WRITING ADVICE series with a post by guest blogger, Janice Hardy. Janice is the author of debut novel, THE PAIN MERCHANTS. In the first of three Writing Advice posts, Janice discusses How to Market Your Book. Running in conjunction with Janice Hardy's posts is a chance to win a signed copy of her novel, THE PAIN MERCHANTS. You can read more on -… Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on November 16, 2009 at 5:54pm — 2 Comments

Interview with a Debut Author: KEREN DAVID

Great interview with YA author Keren David now on blog http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Enjoy :) Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on October 25, 2009 at 3:47pm — No Comments

Interview with a Debut Author: VALERIE O. PATTERSON

Interview now on blog. Valerie is a US author represented by Sarah Davies of The Greenhouse. http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on October 5, 2009 at 10:36am — No Comments

Interview with award winning YA author now on blog

Posted a great interview with award winning author, Tabitha Suzuma, on blog http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on September 26, 2009 at 3:19pm — No Comments

Interview with Scream Street author, Tommy Donbavand, now on blog

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Added by Tracy Ann Baines on September 18, 2009 at 3:12pm — No Comments

Margo Lanagan discusses Tender Morsels

Margo Lanagan talks to me in some depth about Tender Morsels. Posted on http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on September 11, 2009 at 2:53pm — No Comments

WIN SIGNED BOOKS by ALEXANDER GORDON SMITH

Hi all, I'm running a competition on my blog to win signed copies of books by Alexander Gordon Smith. He was a recent and excellent interviewee on my blog. I have three sets of FURNACE:LOCKDOWN and FURNACE:SOLITARY. Plus some extra goodies. For the younger reader I have three sets of THE INVENTORS and THE INVENTORS AND THE CITY OF STOLEN SOULS. Enter yourself, tell your kids - open to all. http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on August 17, 2009 at 9:59am — No Comments

Interview with author, Sam Enthoven, now on blog

Posted an interview with Sam Enthoven, author of The Black Tattoo and Tim: Defender of the Earth. You can read it here - http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on August 8, 2009 at 3:28pm — No Comments

Interview with children's and YA author Alexander Gordon Smith now on blog

I've posted an interview with the author of The Inventors and YA series Furnace on my blog. Gordon was a great interviewee. Enjoy. http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on July 27, 2009 at 7:27pm — No Comments

Interview with the 2009 Times Chicken House competition winner: SOPHIA BENNETT

Posted an interview with Sophia Bennett on my blog. Her book Threads is a funny, heart-warming book for girls. You can read the interview here http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on July 18, 2009 at 6:48pm — No Comments

Agent Interview podcast now on blog

This podcast presentation is a first for me and I was quite nervous but I've put up the first instalment of an agent interview with Peter Cox of the Redhammer Agency on my blog. Here's the link http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on July 13, 2009 at 1:15pm — No Comments

Interview with MG Harris, author of The Joshua Files now on blog

Hi all I've put up an interview with MG Harris on my blog. You can read it here - http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Enjoy Tracy :) Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on July 3, 2009 at 2:31pm — No Comments

AGENT INTERVIEW UP ON BLOG

Dear all, I've put up my agent interview with Suzy Jenvey of PFD. She discusses authors and illustrators. Some of you asked questions which she kindly answered at the end of the interview. Here's the link - http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ Hope you find it interesting Tracy :) Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on June 26, 2009 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments

SELF-PUBLISHING A CHILDREN'S BOOK SERIES

SELF-PUBLISHING A CHILDREN'S BOOK SERIES To conclude my blog series on self-publishing by 'authors who have tried it' we have Debbie Edwards. Debbie has provided a fantastic, insightful and candid post about her successful venture into self-publishing. You can read it here - http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com/ I have no idea why it's still not feeding through to this home page but it is feeding through to my personal page s… Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on June 8, 2009 at 5:03pm — No Comments

GOOD LUCK

GOOD LUCK to everyone who's entered the Anthology Competition. :D

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Added by Tracy Ann Baines on May 31, 2009 at 9:06pm — 1 Comment

SELF-PUBLISHING SERIES ON BLOG

Hello all - I'm not sure why the blog isn't automatically feeding through onto the home page but I've just put up an interview with SCBWI's Holly Stacey here There's also an interview with Gareth Mottram here Hope you enjoy them Tracy Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on May 27, 2009 at 1:55pm — 1 Comment

Interview with a Début Author #3: ELEN CALDECOTT

I've posted a new interview on my blog with Elen Caldecott who was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2009. here's the link Interview with a Début Author #3: ELEN CALDECOTT Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on March 2, 2009 at 1:29pm — No Comments

Interview with a Debut Author #2: HARRIET GOODWIN

I've uploaded my next interview with one of the SCBWI Undiscovered Author winners, Harriet Goodwin, onto my blog. Here's the link tall tales and short stories Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on February 2, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Interview with a Debut Author #1: SARWAT CHADDA

If anyone's interested I've posted an interview with fellow SCBWI member, Sarwat Chadda, on my blog - http://talltalesandshortstories.blogspot.com Continue

Added by Tracy Ann Baines on January 20, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

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Illustration: Michael Foreman's War Boy Exhibition

November 10, 2009 to December 23, 2009 – National Army Museum, Chelsea

Exploring some of the complex themes of the World Wars and the civilian connection with the British Army, War Boy is a unique opportunity to see original artwork by leading children's illustrator Mic…

Organized by National Army Museum | Type: exhibition
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition is open to YA

January 25, 2010 to February 7, 2010 – International

YA is a new category. and previously self published novels are accepted. Read about it here. Submissions are accepted between 25 Jan 2010 and 7 Feb 2010

Organized by amazon in the United States | Type: competition
FEDERATION OF CHLDREN'S BOOKGROUPS CONFERENCE

April 9, 2010 at 4pm to April 11, 2010 at 4pm – Bradfield College - Reading

READ IT AGAIN!! Conference 2010 The Conference will be opened by Anthony Horowitz, celebrating 10 years of Alex Rider and will be closed by William Nicholson. In between we will be delighted and ente…

Organized by Jackie Marchant | Type: conference
Festival of Writing, York

April 10, 2010 to April 11, 2010 – York

http://www.festivalofwriting.com/index.shtml Good line up and worth going if anyone is in the area - workshops, one-to-ones, agents, publishers, authors. They're taking bookings from tomorrow - firs…

Organized by The Writer's Workshop | Type: writing, festival
London Book Fair 2010

April 19, 2010 to April 21, 2010 – Earl's Court, London

The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. Taking place every spring in the wo…

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Children's Writers Conference in Italy

June 18, 2010 to June 21, 2010 – Duino, Italy

Do you have an interest in writing for children or young adults? Whether published or unpublished, you are very welcome to join us at an exciting new Conference. The Children’s Writers’ Conference w…

Organized by Ruth Eastham ruth_eastham@yahoo.com | Type: conference

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