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
BOOK PAGE: http://ravenswoodpublishing.com/bookpages/theresastinkygoblinintheshed.html
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: Dress up or dress
down?
A: Dress up and I
love carnival parties of all kinds. I have a dressing up box, not only for my
grandchildren, but I love it, too. But maybe you meant my little (not so
little) black dress? Which I love too, and glam up with silk scarves -
Q: Dine in or dine
out?
A: Both, but nothing
beats a candlelight dinner with good wine and good food – in a favorite
restaurant, or a home with friends.
Q: Coffee or Tea?
A: Coffee, but being
British, I suppose it should be tea -
Q: Texting, love it or hate it?
A: Love it – is that bad?
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– ABOUT THE CRAFT
Q: How do you handle
a writer's block?
A: Do other things,
read, walk, cook – something exciting will pop into your head, eventually.
Q: Do you write
longhand first, or does it go straight into the computer?
A: Straight into the
computer, but a jumble of notes at first.
Q: Are you a sit down
and play it by ear kind of writer, or do you need a structured guideline, or
maybe a little of both?
A: I need the idea
and the start, the rest will come with the writing, and often turn direction.
But the basic storyline is mapped out at the start.
Q: When crafting the
story do you go from beginning to end, or do you jump around writing the scenes
that are pushing themselves forward in your brain?
A: A bit of both.
Q: Do you always know
how a story will end when you begin writing it?
A: Sort of, but it
could change. And with the Stinky Goblin story I had another ending, but it
wasn’t really the end, more had to come.
Q: Have your
characters ever taken the story in a different direction than you had
originally planned? Do you have a for instance, for us?
A: Oh yes, the Stinky
Goblin story started out as a nice gentle goblin story. Two boys hiding a kind
goblin in their den – oops, the goblin took over and wasn’t nice at all!
Q: What geographical
locations are your favorite and why?
A: France, we love
our holidays in France, the Mediterranean food, too.
Q: Which holiday
celebrations do you like to incorporate into your stories and why?
A: I have written a
story about Christmas, but sadly no publisher was keen – good story, they
actually said, but limited market! Thanks for the idea, I’ll try a Halloween
story maybe. I tried one out on my granddaughter at her last Halloween party,
but all the 8 years-olds said it wasn’t scary enough. The four year old was
scared!
Q: Generally
speaking, is your work based on real life experience? If it's not would you
want it to be?
A: There’s always
something taken from real life, isn’t there.
Q: How long does it
take you to create a novel?
A: About a year from
beginning to end.
Q: Do you like to
read the genre that you write?
A: Yes, of course.
But I read a lot of other things too.
Q: How does the
man/woman in your life feel about the genre you write? Has he read any of your
work?
A: My kids and
grandchildren read my stories, and are fans. My husband reads murder stories.
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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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