by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jun 25, 2022 | Indie Publishing, The Dralfynia Sagas, Writing for Children and Young Adults
A while ago I wrote a blog about why I loved the character of Witchy Wu, who is one of the villains in the Sabrina Summers trilogy. Today I am writing about the inspiration behind one of the other villains, Prince Donaldo. This larger-than-life character is borrowed...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jun 12, 2021 | Big Boots, Indie Publishing, Travel Writing, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing for Children and Young Adults
Last weekend I went to the ballet with a very inspiring friend. We were chatting about my fairly-new full-time and full-on job and she asked how I was managing to keep up with my writing. “Do you just wait for the weekend?” she said. The answer, of course,...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jul 8, 2017 | Indie Publishing, The Dralfynia Sagas, Writing
If you’ve been looking to get copies of the Strange Sagas of Sabrina Summers from Amazon or Kindle recently, I’m afraid you’ll have been disappointed, but for a great reason. I have just signed a contract with Morgan James, a well-established hybrid publisher based in...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Feb 1, 2016 | Classic children's books, Indie Publishing, Travel Writing, Writing
They say that whatever book you are working on, writers still believe that there’s a better one waiting round the corner, and I know just how that feels. Although I am currently finishing off the formatting and launch of the final Sabrina Summers’ Saga and...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Sep 21, 2015 | Indie Publishing, Writing, Writing for Children and Young Adults
I really love this story from Fairfax Media’s stuff.co.nz on life tips from J K Rowling. I admire her not because she’s a successful author of children’s book (I’m just jealous of that ;), but because of how she respects her success and uses...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jun 8, 2015 | Indie Publishing, Writing for Children and Young Adults
Today I have to start to re-write the first quarter of The Uncomfortable Glass slipper, not my favourite job as an author. Although I’m much happier with the new plan and know it’s the right thing to do, I’m putting it off. Writing from scratch is...
