Last week I had the privilege of being invited in to my old Junior School at Ryhope. The school has revamped and renovated its library and I was given the honour of opening the new library space. I felt like a rock star! There was a ribbon to cut and everything. It was a very special day. Not only that, but all nine classes, of approx. 20 children in each one, came into the library to meet me and to hear how I became an author. Now then, I'm still very much finding my feet with talks and what-nots, they're still terrifying to me. So what was I to make of giving not one, but nine seperate talks to children aged from 7 to 11 in one single day? Well, it wasn't easy. I was as nervous giving my last talk as I was giving the first. But I needn't have worried. The children were impeccably behaved. Not only that, they asked some fantastic questions, they really did want to know how to become a writer, how to make a story work and what my favou...
