Erstwhile Children’s Author Remembers Paris

Interesting intro to a piece about Shakespeare & Company, the famous Paris bookstore, by Michael Lawrence for Writers Review:

Between 1995 and 2015 I published a number of stories and forty-something books for children and teenagers. One of the books – Young Dracula – inspired five CBBC-TV series of that name; a series I didn’t like and which earned me little more than a fleeting ‘originator’ end credit and a handful of beans. While I enjoyed writing many of my books, others were such a tussle with editors and their various chippers-in that frustration and out-and-out rage became the order of many a day. When the new head of a certain publishing house informed me that my new ideas were ‘very funny with strong narrative voices but a little quirky and out-there at a time when we are looking for something a lot more obvious’ I knew it was time to move on. I’m still moving. Still writing too (it’s hard to give up), but not for children.

Recommend reading the rest of the piece…

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