Category: Holding On – A kids novel
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Holding On News – Meeting the Elephant Page Publishing team

I was so pleased (and nervous!) to meet the team at Elephant Page Publishing via video link today. I felt honoured and special to be “believed in” by a bunch of people that I don’t even know. (I was so nervous that I forgot to get a screenshot of the meeting.) Per, Soraya, Daniel, Kel,…
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Manessa’s Story – First glimpses of a sequel
Holding On has an intriguing supporting character called Manessa. When I first started writing, I didn’t really care about her. She was just the ‘mouth breathing troll’ with red hair and very sharp pencils who sat next to Ant, but the further I got into the story, the more I realised Manessa was an important…
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Holding On – Query Letter
Turns out that a query letter is very hard to write. I spent some time at https://queryshark.blogspot.com/and came up with this: Dear XXX I’m seeking representation for Holding On, a 56,000 middle readers reality miniplot drama. What Ant Barnett needs most of all is for the door to his dad’s heart flung open so he…
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Holding On – First Four Chapters
Prologue Cassette Tapes This story happened when haircuts were a different shape and walls were a different colour and computers made funny noises when they connected to the internet. People listened to music with CD players and, to be honest, they were pretty cool. A CD was a plastic disc a little smaller than your…
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Holding On – A Story of Loss, Courage and Friendship
About six months ago, I deced to write Ant’s story. It’s been rolling around in my head for a long time. At one stage I wrote a screenplay for a short film based on the same plot. I got some great feedback, but I didn’t continue with it, because life happened, and writing is really,…


