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Book in the Spotlight: The Midnight Lie

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

25/06/2021

This is an edited version of my review published by the fabulous British Fantasy Society earlier this year, for whom I regularly review middle grade and YA fantasy novels. Audience: YA Genre: Fantasy Authors…

Book in the Spotlight: All the Stars and Teeth

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

18/06/2021

This is an edited version of my review published by the fabulous British Fantasy Society earlier this year, for whom I regularly review middle grade and YA fantasy novels. Audience: YA…

Study people like you’re about to play them on TV

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

11/06/2021

I’m not really one of those ‘people watchers’ you find sitting in café windows or on park benches, glancing around as the world goes by, trying to figure out everyone’s…

A Monday in the life of a kidlit editor, writer & reader #1

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

07/06/2021

This series is my contribution to It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?, a weekly blog hop co-hosted by Unleashing Readers and Teach Mentor Texts which focuses on sharing books marketed…

Book in the Spotlight: Diana and the Island of No Return

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

04/06/2021

This is an edited version of my review published by the fabulous British Fantasy Society earlier this year, for whom I regularly review middle grade and YA fantasy novels. Audience: Middle Grade…

Know your audience: middle grade

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

27/11/2020

Unless you’re ten, it can be hard to get into the mindset of your young readers when writing middle grade fiction. Schooldays are a distant memory for most of us,…

Fleshing out your secondary characters with Greg House

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

13/11/2020

I’m going way off-piste today with this post: it’s not about fantasy, horror, sci-fi or mystery (well, House is a medical mystery show, but I’m not sure that counts) and there isn’t…

Creating empathy with universals and ant mothers

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

06/11/2020

I recently worked with a YA sci-fi author whose protagonists were non-humans permanently floating in space and trying to survive. It’s unlikely teenage readers from Earth will be able to…

Obstacles and goals in Sex Education

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

23/10/2020

You’ve probably noticed editors and writing teachers are always banging on about the importance of obstacles in fiction. That’s because if you give your characters exactly what they want right…

The Magic Words by Cheryl B Klein

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

16/10/2020

I adore reading books about writing and I have several favourites that I always recommend to everybody. When I read them for the first time, I cover the pages in…