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Ep134 - Eoin Colfer | Highfire: A Novel

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How to Write a Children's Book

As a kid, i read a lot of er armis books, sent of them, and but like that, along with a lot of other sort of series that were aimed at young adults. But my characters never really did that. It was all prepubescent. And which is a great way of avoiding that mine field. You just write a lovely adventure story,. nobody does no boy friends, girl friends, girlfriends, girlfriends, boy frends, boy friends, whatever. The price you pay for that, then is you do lose your readers. As the series progresses, if the characters don't age up, am you're going to lose a lot of people. So whereas we

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