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Kathryn Kettle
Nov 9, 20231 min read
On Pitching: It's easy as A, B, C
Perfect, Pitches! Friday Fringe for SCWBI15 and I helped the wonderful @emmajgreenwood run a workshop on pitching to agents. A smattering...
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Kathryn Kettle
Jul 5, 20222 min read
On editing: agility
Book 2 editing update : nerd version TLDR: I use spreadsheets and a tech delivery process call ‘agile’ to help me meet deadlines to avoid...
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Kathryn Kettle
Feb 24, 20222 min read
On the way: things amazing and tough
2021. What a strange and long year. We may be towards March 2022, now, but today is the first day that feels like a new year for me. The...
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Kathryn Kettle
Mar 5, 20212 min read
On the way: looking out over the world
*** adapted from a letter written as part of the amazing Wildest Dreams ‘What if?’ Jan’21 Box *** I’m so excited for those of you who...
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Kathryn Kettle
Feb 14, 20213 min read
On honkferencing
What a perfect way to end my launch month! It was a huge privilege to take part in this year’s inaugural ‘honkference’ put together by...
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Kathryn Kettle
Feb 6, 20214 min read
On launching, expectations, spangly dresses and pouring your own champagne
You go through so many moments on the writer’s journey: the moment you decide to, and then finish, an actual book, with characters, and...
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Kathryn Kettle
Nov 1, 20201 min read
On Authors: Melvin Burgess Interview
Christmas has come early! Join me at 19.30 on Twitter for a Q&A with @Melvinburgess Today’s #GEAQA guest is the AMAZING writer Melvin...
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Kathryn Kettle
Feb 18, 20202 min read
On Mentoring
One of the amazing parts of the Childrens’ writing community is how supportive so many are when others looking to get their stories into...
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Kathryn Kettle
Jan 27, 20203 min read
On editing: a beginning's end
2018 was a crazy year, everything moved fast and then the real work started. I thought it was about time I posted an update on the...
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Kathryn Kettle
Jun 10, 20191 min read
On writing: thickening plots
Late last year the amazing team at SCBWI Words & Pictures magazine asked if I would pull together a few blog posts for their KnowHow...
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Kathryn Kettle
Nov 15, 20184 min read
On using *that* little voice
There are lots of great resources online, places where you are encouraged to ask fun questions, help others in the writing community and...
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Kathryn Kettle
Jul 9, 20181 min read
On Publication: 15 amazing words
Disclaimer: There aren’t many moments in my life which have rendered me speechless. This is one of those moments. * Stripes Publishing...
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Kathryn Kettle
Jun 17, 20182 min read
On Giving Back
*Please share and promote this opportunity within your networks so that there is great diversity taking advantage of the funds!*...
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Kathryn Kettle
Mar 13, 20181 min read
On Representation: Wonderful monsters
While I was dealing with my first agent rejection, an amazingly successful writer I know, sitting in the summer light on the vast table...
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Kathryn Kettle
Feb 22, 20183 min read
On the way: giving up to get to where you need to be
The moment I decided I wanted to write I was failing to draw. My family are quite talented artists, and no matter how much I tried I...
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Kathryn Kettle
Jan 16, 20181 min read
On Shortlisting: Undiscovered Voices 2018
I am incredibly humbled and excited to have been selected as one of eleven amazing authors in the Society of Children's Book Writers and...
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Kathryn Kettle
Dec 7, 20172 min read
On Publication: Bath Flash Volume 2
The Lobsters Run Free Total published words tally: 283 As a longlisted participant of the Bath Flash Fiction Award this year (2017) I’m...
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Kathryn Kettle
Dec 5, 20171 min read
On longlists: SCBWI Undiscovered Voices 2018
My Oh My, you fabulous lot you…I’m shaking with excitement! For a number of years now some of you have been following my writing...
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Kathryn Kettle
Oct 9, 20173 min read
On Libraries
#librariesweek My life has been punctuated by libraries. The little local high street library that was huge, it’s corridors endless as a...
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Kathryn Kettle
Sep 29, 20171 min read
On Inspirational women and collegiate hugs
Tonight I met the truly inspirational Rosalind Miles, author of some phenomenal works including ‘A woman’s history of the world’ (among...
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