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Welcome aboard @olicpopsi :) I have written a MG, but @Robinne Weiss has written in this space for years. If you want to traditionally publish, you should know, MG is really in a slump atm. My MG has just hit constant rejection (mind you, I've...

Hello all I've just joined. Looking forward to learning from you all. I have written my first children's (middle grade) fiction novel and am keen to get it published. Any help gratefully received. Many thanks Oli.

He had such a brilliant mind :)

People are like books: some deceive you with their cover, and others surprise you with their content. Oscar Wilde

Read Silver by Olivia Levez - YA Sci fi - I highly recommend. An alien girl need to live with humans and collect data that will allow her shipmates to invade, but when she integrates with a human family and meets a human boy . . . - so it's...

I feel sure her 'suggested' murder methods are all medically workable. Very neat twists make that book almost a masterclass, even if the stuff in between is a bit lightweight. The double twist at the end – two people, in two ways – is remarkable.

I'll try to make it. I'm currently under new and very small (and loud, and hungry) management :baby:

I'll be there but I'll be half an hour late

There are so many con artists out there who's to say he's not lying to make a buck? Show me the book titles and they're track records. Then I'll believe him.

I just read an interesting interview with American UK agents Catherine Cho and Katie Greenstreet. Amongst other things, they talk about reasons not to write to market. When actually writing their books, do authors need to be considering multiple...

Spent the past few months going through all four volumes of The Michael Palin Diaries. Narrated by the lad himself. Nicely written, edited and read. Thoroughly enjoyed them.

I've never read any Freida McFadden, but I recently discovered that she isn't a full-time author, but still practises as a physician specialising in brain injury. If she's not earning enough to quit her day job, there's no hope for anyone...

Let me know how you find it if you do read it!