Jen is in conversation with Jen Campbell a Sunday Times bestselling author and award-winning poet. She is the author of ten published books across non-fiction, poetry, short stories and children's books. 

Jen specializes in the history of fairy tales, giving guest lectures at universities, museums and book festivals on this topic. Her video installation on the history of fairy tales is currently part of an exhibition at Suffolk University, Boston, MA. She runs a popular YouTube video series (60,000 viewers) where she talks about the history of fairy tales, reviews books and discusses the representation of disfigurement.

http://www.jen-campbell.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/user/jenvcampbell

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A great analogy I learned eons ago. The 'fish' will simplify and streamline the way you structure your writing so that readers will LOVE your work even more! 

This episode also includes a little New Year frivolity. 

Happy New Year, dear listener. Thank you so much for supporting this podcast, it means the world to me!

Other podcasts mentioned:

The Priestess Podcast with Julie Parker.

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Decorating my house (and messing it up severely), taught me alot about creative writing. Let's chat, okay?!

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Our dialogue needs to lively and straight to the point.

‘Narnia! It’s all in the wardrobe, just like I told you!’

So. Put down that teapot. And let’s talk about…dialogue.

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Arrogance and selfishness are an essential, healthy and liberating part of an artist's psyche and ongoing success.

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When telling a story we need to be brave, in more ways than one. Here is how bravery will benefit your plot.

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When I wrote my first book I didn't realise that stories need structure. 

Here is what happened...

When someone like Jackie French (Australian Children's Laureate for 2014/15, 2015 Senior Australian of the Year, historian, ecologist, dyslexic, and a passionate worker for literacy, the right of all children to be able to read, and the power of books) speaks I listen. 

I also take notes loads and loads of notes.

More about Jackie French

Jackie's writing career spans 25 years, 148 wombats, over 140 books, 36 languages, 3,721 bush rats, and over 60 awards in Australia and overseas.

 https://www.jackiefrench.com/

Before I was a Children's Author I had a crack at romance writing. Here's what happened.

Michael Earp is a writer and bookseller living in Melbourne, Australia. He is the contributing editor of Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories (2019) and contributor to Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories (2019). He has a Masters in children’s literature and an undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Teaching. 

For over seventeen years he has worked between bookselling and publishing as a children’s and young adult specialist, currently managing The Little Bookroom. His writing has also appeared in The Victorian Writer and Aurealis. A passionate advocate for LGBTQIA+ literature for young people, he established the #AusQueerYA Tumblr to catalogue all Australian young adult fiction containing queer content and characters. He was previously volunteer committee chair for the #LoveOzYA campaign, a ‘Read Local’ initiative to raise the profile of young adult fiction written by Australians.

Michael is the ABA 2021 Bookseller of the Year.