- Nov 07, 2020
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- Judges
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from £34,000 a year to £16,000.
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson have both been writing for a long time. In 30 years, will writers of that quality have been able to serve the same sort of apprenticeship? Not unless they can make enough money now to live on.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1965, I was 11 and in my last year at Junior school. I was living with my mum and older sister in a rented flat in south London - my parents had separated when I was five and got divorced a couple of years later, which was unusual at the time. My dad was working abroad, and I hadn't seen him for several years.
- British Museum
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum told me stories about her time in the Women's Royal Navy, and about her dad, who had died before I was born - he'd been sent to Australia as a child, then joined the Australian Army in the First World War and fought at Gallipoli.
- Led
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied Wilfred Owen for my English A Level, and that led me to Sassoon and Blunden, Rosenberg and Thomas.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were of the generation that lived through the Second World War, but I grew up listening to my mother recounting her dad's tales about his terrible experiences during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 and later on the Western Front.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sally Gardner must drive her publishers to distraction: no sooner have they worked out how to market one brilliant book than she delivers another that is just as brilliant but totally different.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to confess that I've never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it's known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It's mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I'm also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantasy is a demanding genre.
- Gripping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the world has been created, the fantasy author still has to bring the story's characters to life and unfold a gripping plot. That's why good fantasy is such a hard act to bring off.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your characters are two-dimensional and your plot uncompelling, it won't matter how incredibly detailed and believable your fantasy world might be.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020