Yep – that’s me, long of limb and curly of hair! I was sorting through some old emails the other day and found two from about a year ago, when during an unusual moment of craziness I emailed Imogen Cooper at The Golden Egg Academy. Through the...
All aboard the Penny Lane for the Golden Egg Summer Social - 6 July 2014 On a golden day golden eggs gathered from all points of the compass converging on the beautiful Bath for our inaugural summer social. The sun shone and so did the outfits,...
A Rewarding Summer Let’s start this season’s newsletter on an exciting note! Egger Gabrielle Kent, agented by Ben Illis (BIA), has just secured a deal with Scholastic for world rights with her novel Alfie Bloom and the Secret of Hexbridge Castle. I’m sure I speak...
One of the biggest events of the Young Adult calendar occurred in July 2014, and no we're not talking about the glorious Golden Egg summer social (blog to follow on this next week). #YALC (Young Adult Literature Conference) took place on the weekend of Saturday...
Just recently I've been changing. Not in the visiting-the-swimming-pool-so-I'm-getting-into-my-trunks changing, more the Jekyll and Hyde sense. Yes, that's right, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Probably admitting such a thing at this point in the blog might lead you to imagine dark hospital wards, a padded cell, me...
(Warning - I may overuse the word wonderful) It was this time last year that I sent my writing off to Golden Egg. I’m loving my journey with GEA and thought it only fair to share my experience of the last year with new eggs and...
Many thanks to fellow Egger Vashti Hardy for passing the baton to me in the blog tour. You can read her fantastic ‘world building’ post here: http://vashtihardy.wordpress.com/ Reading how others approach their writing is fascinating and it’s good to know I’m not alone! I’m writing my first YA...
Contribution by Gemma Cooper, the Bent Agency Bologna Book Fair is my favourite time of the working year. For three days and nights I get to talk books to all my favourite people: US editors, our international co-agents, foreign publishers, and UK publishers I may have only...
Contribution by Andrew Wright Being Creatively Sick For me the work on the BookMap between 29 October and 20 November was so very creative that it was actually akin to vomiting (apologies for the visceral nature of that metaphor). Once started the BookMap forced me to begin...
Contribution by Andrew Wright Hoorah for the BookMap “I can see clearly now the rain has gone.” The next stage of my work with Golden Egg was the BookMap, building on these themes and ideas, weaving together the plot from beginning to end. The BookMap was an equally...
