Melanie Ifield's Blog: Writing with Illness - Posts Tagged "children-s-series"
a Proper Introduction
Good morning and hello! It’s autumn here in Australia and I’m actually having to wear a snuggly dressing gown and ugg boots as I write this. Some of the trees are starting to turn their leaves already and it’s only the first week of cooler weather. They, unlike me, do not appear to suffer from procrastination!
I’ve written on and off most of my life, but only recently started publishing the results. Six years ago I fell ill and decided it was high time I became serious about writing and finally got past chapter one! The three books currently available under my imprint are the first book in their own series. I became so carried away, I couldn’t pick which age group or genre to write about, and wrote one of each – adult crime/adventure, children’s general fiction and children’s fantasy fiction.
The fun part of writing for children (and having a great inner child to talk to!) is I write the kind of adventures I’d liked to have had when I was a child – not just ones I’d like to have read about.
I have a few projects on the go, but as mentioned, I am experiencing a long term illness which cramps my style somewhat! So in between resting, I’m writing more in the Novarmere series, editing the ones I’ve already written, starting a new, younger children’s series, and looking at a scifi novel – my first in that genre and who knows where it will end?
In the meantime, I have a new book coming out soon – it is getting itself a jacket and then it will proudly sit beside the others. This one – called ‘Listening to Echoes of her Self’ – is a standalone adult novel, a third person fictional biography.
I’ll also try to answer any questions in this blog, from here, Twitter and Facebook, LinkedIn or by letter – but as I write for children, please keep comments and critiques and questions PG for all viewers’ sakes!
Thank you
I’ve written on and off most of my life, but only recently started publishing the results. Six years ago I fell ill and decided it was high time I became serious about writing and finally got past chapter one! The three books currently available under my imprint are the first book in their own series. I became so carried away, I couldn’t pick which age group or genre to write about, and wrote one of each – adult crime/adventure, children’s general fiction and children’s fantasy fiction.
The fun part of writing for children (and having a great inner child to talk to!) is I write the kind of adventures I’d liked to have had when I was a child – not just ones I’d like to have read about.
I have a few projects on the go, but as mentioned, I am experiencing a long term illness which cramps my style somewhat! So in between resting, I’m writing more in the Novarmere series, editing the ones I’ve already written, starting a new, younger children’s series, and looking at a scifi novel – my first in that genre and who knows where it will end?
In the meantime, I have a new book coming out soon – it is getting itself a jacket and then it will proudly sit beside the others. This one – called ‘Listening to Echoes of her Self’ – is a standalone adult novel, a third person fictional biography.
I’ll also try to answer any questions in this blog, from here, Twitter and Facebook, LinkedIn or by letter – but as I write for children, please keep comments and critiques and questions PG for all viewers’ sakes!
Thank you
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