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Undiscovered Voices Stands and Delivers

11/30/2015

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When I was 6 years old this was my favourite thing ever...
Highwaymen were cool!
(Remember I said that).
I read every book I could get my hands on that had a whisper of a highwayman in. A sniff of a Dick Turpin or a whiff of a Claude Du Vall and I was there. Highwaymen were exciting, dangerous, flamboyant and galloped about on big black horses. I wanted to be one.

Later, when I was a older than 6 and writing for children was now my favourite thing ever, I wondered 'Where all the highwaymen gone?' There are loads of kids' books full of the baddies we can't help but love. Pirates, wizards, dragons, werewolves, vampires are all still there, but the only highwaymen stories I could find were the icky sicky romantic ones.
But highwaymen are still cool!
And so I wrote 'The Lowayman'

'Mystery, adventure and a life on the open road, that’s what young George Beckett wants. What George has is a shrieking aunt, a bed in a hayloft and a collection of highwaymen posters. So George goes in search of ‘The Phantom’ who turns out to be half the man George thought...literally! '
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A few months ago I sent  'The Lowayman' to Undiscovered Voices. UV is a biannual competition run by the British Isles Region of SCBWI. Its aim is to help fresh, new voices in children's literature- both writers and illustrators-find agents, publishers and ultimately readers. 

Today I heard that 'The Lowayman' has been  LONGLISTED! 
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See! I told you Highwaymen are cool!
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So now I'm 41 years old and this is currently my favourite thing ever...




(black, leather gloved fingers crossed for the shortlist)

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How to Tion the SCBWI Conferenecne

11/23/2015

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I hear there's a bit of a race to get blog posts out about this weekend's SCBWI 'New Readers Ahoy!' conference in Winchester.

I would love to join in, but as on of the Co-chairs that organised it I have spent months planning it, the weekend delivering it and most of today getting home form it. I'm exhausted so I'm going to have to tion this blog post.

No not shun,
TION, you'll soon see what I mean.

Foundation- Previous conferences have already set a high standard.
Preparation- Started almost as soon as last year's finished.
Cooperation- A crack team of organisers have worked closely together all year.
​Motivation- The desire to make the conference better and better each year.
Distraction- Working on the conference when we probably should have been doing other things instead.
Creation-Creating an exciting programme that caters all day, every day for all our members.
Information- building a constant on-line presence through websites, social media and email so that you have all the up to date conference information.
Nation- Bringing together SCBWI members from all over our region and beyond.
Interaction- getting to know our delegates, especially those coming for the first time.
Promotion- of all our members, writers and illustrators, published and pre-published.
Celebration- the achievements of our members big and small all at the same time.
Exhilaration- The adrenaline rush as the weekend moves forward at lightning pace.
Medication- There were a few headaches on the way.
Satisfaction- of a conference well done.

So there you have it. I have well and and truly TIONED  the 2015 SCBWI conference. 
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