This blog is for those young people who may have found my
previous blogs a bit dull, too adult and frankly not for them. After all the Nick North series is for 10 –
13 year olds and so is this blog.
Who loves reading
great children’s stories?
I love both reading and writing children’s literature.
Always have. Always will. It’s my thing.
Do you have a book in
you?
There’s a saying that goes ‘there’s a book in everyone,’ which means everyone has got a good
story in them that they could write about. However bringing up four children
and teaching did not give me much time to write anything. When I retired, apart
from catching up on some sleep and travelling to South Africa, the first thing
I wanted to do was write a children’s novel. Nick North: Blood Quest is the result.
It took a long time from my first not very good efforts to
the version available in Kindle and soon
coming out in paperback. Very exciting.
Writing, like everything else that is worth doing, takes a lot of time
and effort and there is loads to learn. I am definitely still learning.
Second Nick North
coming soon
The second book in the Nick North series is now written and
being edited and redrafted or in other words: improved.
The first Nick North book Blood Quest is about Nick and his family. The second Nick North book (the title is a
secret) is about Leone and her family though Nick is very much the star of the
book.
Part of the book is set in the First World War which is very
topical at the moment as it all happened 100 years ago.
I’ll tell you why I wrote about the First World War another
time.
My favourite books
When I was a child, I loved reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and all the other Narnia
books. Much later, I discovered the John White Chronicles of Anthropos books.
Sadly they are hard to come by now but what great stories they are. All
of them tell of ordinary children caught up in extraordinary events and being
heroes, saving the day. They also all meet, amongst many others a special
person. In Narnia it is the lion Aslan and in Anthropos it is Gaal.
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| Aslan from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
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| Gaal from The Archives of Anthropos series of books |
These provided the inspiration for my Nick North books and
his meeting with the Shepherd.
Have you a favourite book or character?
