Writing for a different audience.

I normally write for myself, for an adult audience. Not anything really “Adult” but there are hints and darkness in the stories I tell, and the concepts are maybe more adult in theme. I wouldn’t be overly happy with my own children, or their friends, reading most of my work, certainly not my youngest who is 10.

The first book I wrote with my own children in mind, was well received. The Map and the Stone is part of my Portal series and my kids loved it. Since then I’ve found my writing has changed and I am more aware o who I would want to be able to read each piece. I still tend towards the complex and more adult themes.

My self imposed challenge for the first part of 2014 is to write another book for that audience, for my youngest child and her contemporaries.

The house was warm and cosy. The bed was far too comfy and the curtains closed against the dark. Sunlight would filter softly through the fabric in a couple of hours and it was Elois Young’s twelfth birthday. She rolled onto her back, gazing at the fabric draped across the room, hiding the stained metal ceiling. She didn’t remember much about the crossing, only the bright lights that hurt her eyes when she woke from her long sleep, and it being chaos getting everyone into the right places for landing.

This one has no titles, no cover and is still very much in development at this stage, but I thought you might appreciate a snippet.

I’ll be writing every day from now until it’s finished, which should be around the end of March. Then it’ll be edits, and I hope to have this one released in time for Christmas 2014.