Exciting news, I have once again picked up the novel mantle under the mentorship of Maisie Chan. Maisie is a fiction author who write middle grade novels as well as other pieces for teens and adults. She has experience running teaching creative writing sessions also and put a call out on Twitter last month about looking for a British-Chinese writer to mentor because she was disappointed there were so few. I jumped in with an application which she happily accepted and now she

My last attempt to write a novel spanned about 7 years and spawned multiples drafts. It was/is a fantasy novel inspired by a Standard Grade English writing prelim (write a story based in a forest). At the time I was working my way through both the Anne McCaffrey Pern novels and the Mercedes Lackey Valdemar world which meant I enjoyed romantic fantasy novels with good characterisation but mediocre peril situations. Anyway this mammoth exercise was written in dribs and drabs wi