A Brief Guide to Time Travel by Sam Hawksmoor
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I’ve always loved Time Travel stories and movies such as Twelve Monkeys or the recent Looper . I love the paradox and all the complexit...
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Mother's Day Angst
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It's Mothering Sunday in the UK, today - who are your favourite fictional mums? Some of mine are the wonderfully fickle and cringefull...
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Book L(a)unch
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What’s the difference between a Book Launch and a Book Lunch? Once upon a time, in the year of 2013, I got an email from the warm and ...
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Featured Illustrator: Portia Rosenberg
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This month Featured Illustrator welcomes Portia Rosenberg to Words & Pictures . Through imaginative pencil drawings, Portia has deve...
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How to Make Money from Writing and Illustrating for Children
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Discover Story Centre Stratford London On Thursday 13th March I went to a Masterclass in "How to make money from writing and illu...
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Judy Waite's London Masterclass - Growing Pains: Writing for Young Adults
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© John Shelley What lengths are you prepared to go to in order to tap into your teenage protagonist’s mind and find their voice? Would...
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World Book Day becomes 'I Wrote A Book Day' in Pencaitland
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Sheila Averbuch What happens when you throw a writer with no classroom experience into the odyssey of writing a "whole-school story...
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Some Very Good Reasons for Booking on the 2014 Writers' Retreat
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First reason: Pyjama Party Tatum Flynn had a truly splendid time at last years writers' retreat. If you are still ummimg and aaahhi...
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Everyone is talking about 'Unspeakable'!
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This week the Celebrations Team is delighted to announce that UNSPEAKABLE, the outstanding YA debut by Abbie Todd, is set for publicat...
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Picture Book Basics: Pop-Ups
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Last month, pop-up book virtuoso Trish Phillips showed some of the processes involved in designing her distinctive three dimensional boo...
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March Dare
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Andrew Weale We welcome picture book writer Andrew Weale to Words & Pictures with some excellent advice. Over to Andrew... I’m a ...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 18th March
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Believe it or not, the Blog Break will be a year old next week. Sometimes (usually Monday lunchtime with an empty blog post in front of me...
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Creature Feature the First: The Griffin
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Ken Lymer In our first instalment of a new Words & Pictures feature on creatures of myths and legend, we focus upon the griffin. Th...
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Serendipity, Soothing and Other Lovely Things
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It's been a lovely week - Catherine and I have been recording our first podcasts in Oxford and London with some very interesting peop...
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Hooray for Honorary Mentions!
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Here it is: after the hullaballoo of the Undiscovered Voices Winners' Party , here's our roll of honour for all those nearly ther...
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Photoshop Brushes Part 1
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Photoshop is one of the cornerstones of digital art, so ubiquitous there can be few illustrators who've not experienced the software ...
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Network News: Plotting and Pacing in the North-east
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Maureen Lynas Meeting up with the NE regulars is always fun but it was great to see some new faces too as we gathered in York on 1st March ...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 11th March
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I have emerged, blinking, into the light this week and put fingers to keyboard for my own blog again. It's a good feeling and I'm ...
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Now We Are One
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Birthdays and other Celebrations in Storytelling © John Shelley , from Outside In , Frances Lincoln 2010.
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Two More Birthday Top Picks!
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Have I made inroads into the next WIP? No - I've been too wrapped up in The Great British Sewing Bee but that's another story... ...
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The Skull in the Wood shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize!
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Get ready to dig into a big fat slice of cake this week, as we celebrate with Sandra Greaves, author of the chilling contemporary ghost st...
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The Cambridge Summer School for Illustration
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With the summer season of courses and schools for book creators fast approaching, Margaret Sturton looks back at her experiences at las...
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Network News: South East... and a surprisingly high score from Southampton
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Southampton FC seem to be doing ok at the moment - they're still in the premier league which means they must have been scoring goals… ...
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It's Party Time for the Undiscovered Voices!
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The launch of another volume of Undiscovered Voices is always a moment for great celebration. Twelve writers and five artists – all unagen...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 4th March
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Oh my, there were some terrific blog posts this week. What to pick? What to leave out? What to have for lunch? The life of the Words &...
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Ask a Picture Book Editor
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Ellie and Natascha are delighted to join our Ask a Picture Book Editor column, where you can ask them anything you’d like about pictu...
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Our Birthday Month
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We are now in our birthday month! As you all know, I'm sure, Words & Pictures, has been going a lot longer than wordsandpics....
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A meeting at the SCBWI-BI conference gives Cath Howe a flying start!
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This week we're delighted to announce that Cath Howe is up, up and away with the amazing agent Anne Clark, of the Anne Clark Literary...
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