Category: Holding On – A kids novel
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I ran into ‘Old Paisley’!!!
I ran into my Grade Four teacher a couple of days ago at a conference. Turns out he has moved from Melbourne to NSW. “Thanks for making yourself known to me,” he said at the end. When I was ten, it seemed this guy was ancient. He was larger than life and we were a…
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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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Holding On News.
If you check out my short bio, you will see that my first novel, Holding On, is on track to be published by Elephant Page, (based in Perth, Western Australia) later this year. Tonight I am sending off the latest version of the manuscript. I was responding to some great advice on small structural edits,…
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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,…
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