The Author Hotline
is
being developed by CW4K, or Creative Writing 4 Kids. They are the company behind a website that enables children to create and publish their own stories online. In its first year it has signed up over 2000 members and has been enthusiastically received by children, parents and teachers. In fact the response has been so encouraging that they are planning a huge expansion of its services. Embedding The Author Hotline into the site is part of that expansion...
For more information on CW4K CLICK HERE
Q: What are you afraid of?
Fear.
Q: When did you last have a really good laugh?
Yesterday - at myself.
Q: What is your most treasured possession?
My three children.
Q: What’s your favourite food?
Oranges and limes, onions and garlic, tomatoes and marmite.
Q: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
An Olympic high diving painter.
Q: If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be?
Mervyn Peake.
Q: What quality do you most admire in a person?
Kindness.
Q: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?
The Amazon, Africa, The Yeman, Italy, India.
Q: What is your favourite word?
Ghinchie
Q: What do you do as a hobby?
I like thinking in big spaces.
Q: What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
Be yourself.
Q: What has life taught you?
To be questioning.
Q: How long have you been a writer?
24 years.
Q: Was there a specific moment in your life when you decide to become a writer?
No, but I started to write when my mother died.
Q: Where do you do your writing?
In a shed at the bottom of the garden.
Q: What are the best and worst things about being an author?
Being able to choose what you write about and not always succeeding.
Q: Where do you get your greatest ideas from?
From my imagination - and what happens to me.
Q: What do you do to combat “writers’ block”?
Write something else.
Q: What was your favourite book as a child?
Fairy stories from around the world.
Q: What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
Work very hard. Don't give up.
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