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 did you want to be when you were a child?
A writer, an artist or a baker!
Q: What are you afraid of?
Heights and snakes (especially snakes up high!)
Q: When did you last have a really good laugh?
Yesterday
Q: What do you do as a hobby?
Read
Q: What’s your favourite food?
Mussels and chips
Q: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
A high-wire snake juggler
Q: Do you feel younger or older than your current age?
Younger, most of the time
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 place where my grandfather was injured in WW1
Q: What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
Do what makes you happy
Q: What would you most like to change about yourself?
I would like to worry less
Q: What has life taught you?
Worrying is a waste of time
Q: How long have you been a writer?
38 years
Q: Where do you do your writing?
I have a little studio at the bottom of my garden. That's where I am right now
Q: Where do you get your greatest ideas from?
From that special place between asleep and awake
Q: Which of your own characters do you most identify with?
Charlie Small
Q: What do you do to combat “writers’ block”?
Go for a walk, and not panic
Q: What was your favourite book as a child?
The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Wind in the Willows, The Island of Adventure
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ISBN
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Status
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ISBN
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