I
AM PLEASED TO WELCOME AUTHOR
Andrea
Kaczmarek
TITLE: There’s a Stinky Goblin in the Shed
RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2017
AUTHOR: Andrea Kaczmarek
CATEGORIES: Early Middle Grade/Fantasy
PAGE COUNT: 88
ISBN: 978-1542805629
IMPRINT: Sunquills
Born in Wales. Teacher training in Weymouth - married with two grown up
children - and now grandmother to three amazing and clever kids.
I was a Town Councillor for many years in Hamm with a great interest in
integration and education. Today I still work on the Committee for Special
Needs and I am Chair of the World of Reading - Lese Welt Hamm - bringing books
and stories to children!
I still organise art and English projects at my old school - great fun working with children from many
different backgrounds.
Children who enjoy stories and reading have a good start in life!
Illustrator
BANTER
– STUFF ABOUT YOU
Q: How would you describe yourself as a
color? Think personality here. Are you a light and airy pastel person, or more
of a deep, dark, sultry and mysterious color?
A: I’m green with a touch of yellow.
Those are the colors that I like to have around me or wear. A green person is
optimistic too – so, I’m green.
Q: Tell me one thing about each of the
four seasons you like. It can be anything.
A: Winter
= Christmas time, candles and comfort, I’m a bit of a romantic.
Spring = Blossom and the smell that is in
the air as nature gets started up.
Summer
= Blue skies and the feel of the sun on my skin, at long last.
Fall
= The color of the trees turning and the peace and tranquility.
Q: Bedtime, relaxing so you can sleep
sounds. Is your preference, white noise, TV, soft music, ocean waves, forest or
meadow sounds, babbling brook, or something else?
A: Soft music and a good book, is there
any other bedtime ritual? Don’t answer that!
Q: Did you like school when you were a
child?
A: I loved school. Not everything of
course, certainly not math. But my school was full of books, reading, writing
and painting. I became a teacher and am very saddened when kids hate school,
they shouldn’t. School is your start in life, and mine was happy – apart from
math – so, I look back fondly. My husband hated school because of awful
teachers – that shouldn’t happen, but it did. Maybe the type of village school I went to is a thing of the
past, pity.
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– ABOUT THE CRAFT
Q: When did you start writing and why?
A: At school, creating little stories,
we were encouraged. But I have always ‘scribbled’, as my husband calls it. But
I have only had time to really work on my writing in the last 10 years. Before
that, family, teaching and local politics too up so much time. But I always
wrote in the summer holdays.
Q: Where do you get your ideas?
A: They usually pop into my head in the
early early morning. And then the work starts with jotting down the ideas,
walking to figure things out, and bouncing my almost finished stories onto my
grandchildren- very critical.
Q: How did you come to write your genre
of choice?
A: I have no idea why middle grade took
over, it just did. I am trying to write stories for younger children at the
moment, but find that very hard. I really admire writers who can tell a
brilliant story under 1,000 words, and if they can do it in rhyme, I’m really
impressed. Middle grade is easier
because you can go more into detail. But still you have to cut things out, and
I find that hard, too.
Q: Which element of book writing is
the most difficult for you?
A: The correction phase. I usually do
this after a month or two, because I have fresher ideas after putting the story
away ‘to rest’ for a while. I do that with all my stories – this is good for me
AND the story.
Q: What is your favorite part of
writing?
A: When the idea is newborn and fresh
and the story develops itself, so to speak. With the Stinky Goblin story, the
grubby goblin seemed to take over and that was fun.
Q; Now your least favorite part?
A: Correcting, editing - Cutting out
what isn’t necessary to the story. Re-reading, correcting and being tough on
cuts.
Q: Describe your favorite heroine?
(This doesn’t have to be one of yours.)
A: Perhaps not my all-time favorite,
but at the moment I am reading a Flavia de Luce ( Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath
Mewed) , a 12 year-old detective with a love of chemistry and set in the
1950ies. Very well written and
transforming the reader to a by-gone age.
My favorite childhood book was the
Secret Garden
Q: Describe your favorite hero? (This
doesn’t have to be one of yours.)
A: Harry Potter, well, this is/was
Middle Grade at its very best. And Harry took everything that was thrown at
him. I have to admit I loved the books, but never really got into the films in
the same way. Yes, they are good, but the books have a special something.
Q: Who's your favorite author?
A: After praising Harry Potter, I have
to say Joanne Rowling, she did so much to get middle grade reading back on
track. But, that said, I have to say Roald Dahl, I hope Joanne will forgive me
– but he was the best, and his books still are.
Q: Your favorite title?
A: So many, but I’ll settle for
Mathilda, one of Roald Dahl’s best, I think.
Q: Would you ever consider a joint
project?
A: Yes, I’d love it. I can’t imagine
with whom.
Q: Which of your own releases was your
particular favorite?
A:
My favorite is There’s a Stinky Goblin in the Shed, because I had fun writing
it and it took on a life of its own!
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- NOW LETS PROMOTE – STRUT YOUR STUFF
Q: What are you working on now? Would
you like to share anything about it?
A: I have just finished a story for younger
children- Zola’s Spooky Specs- here’s the blurb: How did
Zola find those Spooky Specs? That’s easy, they found her. It was a party game
and the girls all put on crazy hats and funny specs for mad photos. Except Zola
– she ended up with big black ‘nerdy’ specs! But those specs turned out to be a
bit spooky. Zola started finding lost things… Zola and her Spooky Specs always
knew where to find things – and people are always losing things!
Until
Zola decided to lose those Spooky Specs, why should she always help people to
find things – they shouldn’t be so careless anyway. Until Zola lost something
very special herself.
I am
very pleased with it, but who knows?
Q: Do you have a new book coming out
soon? Tell us about it.
A: Maybe Zola’s Spooky Specs will be the next project, as I
said, just finished, so it is too new to plan.
Q: How can we find you? Do you have a
web page, FaceBook page or any buy links?
A: Yes, I do. Here are the links. ~ If you
would like this line to read another way – please fill it in.
AUTHOR LINKS:
KEYWORDS: Fantasy, Adventure, Fun, Goblins, Monsters, Middle Grade, Magical
ONE LINER:
Looking after a
goblin is not easy, ask the twins Jerry and Jacob who stumble across a lost
goblin, and foolishly help him out. Hiding and feeding him are bad enough – but
when his sister goblin turns up – the boys are in deep trouble again!
SYNOPSIS:
Jerry and Jacob
clean out Gran’s old garden shed to make a den, but on their first late-night
walk in the woods behind it, they come across a very strange, grubby little
person and their problems begin. A small pile of rags that can talk! The boys
want to run away fast, but they take pity on the strange creature. They promise
to try and get it back to its own world – GoblinLand.
Hiding a goblin
in their den is a full time job. But in the end they find out that Hob had
upset an elf, could that be the clue they need? But if the twins think that
helping out their grubby goblin friend is the end of the story – they are very
very wrong! Once you have let one goblin into your life…..the goblin door has
opened!
Buy Links:
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