Ask the Author: Maria B. Hayden
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Maria B. Hayden
I was on a family holiday, I didn't want to go bodyboarding as it was raining and so I promised my daughter I would write her a bedtime story. We had been reading about a group of fairies the previous evening. She asked a lot of questions about real fairies as I'm clearly the fountain of all knowledge! ha! That's how it began...
Maria B. Hayden
I ask this question: "What if?" . For example, What if a little girl managed to find a real fairy, how would she do it? The character is already there and so the story unfolds. It all begins with What if...
Maria B. Hayden
Two projects : The Children's Guide to a Forgotten World, heavily illustrated guide on the Fae and the outline for my first chapter book for kids, as yet untitled.
Maria B. Hayden
Don't Give Up!. Read, research and write it down. I love google. Everything can be done from your desk. YouTube has a heap of how to videos. I set my own website up from watching a YouTube Video. Read books in your genre. My final point is remember why you're doing it? It's not for the money. Don't kid yourself into thinking you will put your book out there and it will sell. Get in front of your audience in whatever way you can. Be athentic and be a storyteller.
Maria B. Hayden
The ability to make stuff up and write it down. My imagination is a very noisy place and I love bringing it all together into one place.
Maria B. Hayden
I keep a couple of projects on the go at the same time. As my first book is going to paperback, the second book is about to go onto kindle, the third book is in draft and the fourth is in outline. I outline every book and follow a process so that if I do have a block on one, I can work on the other.
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