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Children's author moving into screenwriting. BAFTA Rocliffe new writing shortlisted 2023. She/her. jocotterill.com
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Authors Aloud is probably the main reason I'm still writing - over the years they have booked me into many schools to do talks and workshops, which gives me essential income because publishing pays so little ❤️ if you're looking for an author to visit your school, check them out!

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This evening I Zoomed a book club of over a hundred teachers in Turkey who had read my book "A Library of Lemons". An extraordinary experience that reminded me how we are really all just stories in the end. #Türkiye #stories

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Today I finished the first draft of a brand new play. It needs a bit of work, but it exists and I'm dead chuffed about it. #playwriting #scriptskyuk

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

I don't suppose anyone heard the results of Five Seconds To Name today on Radio 2 (with Trevor Nelson)? I'm 100% sure it was Gabrielle but I had to switch off before they revealed the answer! #bbcradio2

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PSA! Moving my batteries today...🤦‍♀️

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This. Today in Oxfordshire UK the sun is shining and I can hear the birds loudly proclaiming their existence. Not everything on this planet is about us ❤️

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Tomorrow I'll be in London watching four actors performing a script I wrote in an evening of rehearsed readings of new writing. I am SO excited! It's only a 10-min piece but it's the first time professional actors will speak my lines. Thank you Page2Stage London for the opportunity! #scriptskyuk

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Yes! Also: we have a weird blinkered view that eg a fiction writer MUST be an avid reader. Stories are everywhere. TV, YouTube, the corner shop, your nan - writers absorb the format and structure from all kinds of sources.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Fab book launch party last night for the final book in the stunning Scarlett & Browne series by Jonathan Stroud. Lovely to see so many author pals there including @kathrynevans1.bsky.social Sarwat Chadda and Laura Ellen Anderson.

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Been wrestling with a screenplay today. I seem to have exactly the same problem with scripts as I do with novels: I get to the mid way point and suddenly the plan I had for the second half SIMPLY DOESN'T WORK ANY MORE. And then I have to STOP and re-plot and it's SO ANNOYING.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Dog in fog.

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This man is such a force for good.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

And breathe...

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This is my plan for this year. I want to write more: new scripts, a whole new screenplay. Maybe some books, if someone pays me enough. But less social media, less absorption of global news, less worrying. Focus on creation.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Yessss! I'm so annoyed with the AI result! This gives the same search results without the AI-generated text at the top ✅

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It's publication day! My debut novel THE ZOMBIE PROJECT (endorsed by the Daleks and Moopsie, as well as my two cats, who play a starring role) is out today. If you prefer audiobooks, the audio version is out today too!

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

I love this so much. Reminds me of Malorie Blackman carrying around a superhero costume in her school bag "just in case" 💓

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