Liz Kessler (pictured at right) is the amazing British author of the Emily Windsnap books (and the soon to be released new Philippa Fisher series) and she has a fantastic and very informative website. There is a very lengthy Frequently Asked Questions page that answers every question I think you'd ever want to know! She also has a really interesting gallery that includes this image of the Japanese cover of The Tail of Emily Windsnap! It's so interesting to see what other countries do with book covers.
There's also this explanation of how The Tail of Emily Windsnap came to be: "My first book actually started out as a poem. One day, I was sitting at home staring into space (a very important part of any writer’s life) and a couple of lines came into my head, which I quickly scribbled down…
Mary Penelope lived on a boat,
Which was all very well, but it didn’t quite float…
Which was all very well, but it didn’t quite float…
I worked on the poem for a few weeks and sent it to a good friend and very special writing-buddy, Lee Weatherly, who liked it very much. She sent it to her editor, David Fickling, and he suggested I try turning it into a novel instead of a poem. So I thought about it, scratched my head, went ‘hmmm’ for a bit…and then got to work! And that’s how The Tail of Emily Windsnap came about!"
2 comments:
I'm a huge fan of Liz Kessler and she's my favorite author. We're gonna have to recite a poem at the end of the school year, and I'll do Jinx's Shop, by Liz Kessler
She is amazing!!! I am half way through her book "A year without Autumn" and have read all of the other Emily Windsnap (sorry if I haven't spelt that right, I am on holiday so I don't have the book) and the Philippa Fisher's. She is a phenomenal writer and my favourite authors are Liz, J.K Rowling and Gareth P. Jones.
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