Friday 16 October 2009

London Writers' Club

I finally succeed in getting to a meeting of the London Writers' Club. The other two occasions that I'd booked to go, I had to cancel. Anyhow, this time I made it.

The speaker this month was Jessica Ruston who has just had her first novel published. It's a 170,000 word blockbuster called Luxury. What amazed me was that she said it was the first time she'd written anything since she was about 11! She seemed to have no problem in finding an agent or a publisher, so, if she can do it....

I should get my 2010 copy of the Children's Writers' and Illustrators' Yearbook and start to decide who I should send my three picture book texts to. OK, I know I only have two texts at the moment but....

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