Just for you

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. 

Aslan from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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?