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Publication – A Done Deal - Gabrielle Kent
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Alfie Bloom: The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle. Publication A Done Deal. The last two years of editing have finally paid off! In June this year my agent Ben Illis. Submitted Alfie Bloom: The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle to Helen Thomas. Commissioning editor at Scholastic UK. Everything moved very quickly after that phone call. Within two weeks I had signed a three book deal for world rights with Scholastic. It has been very difficult to stay quiet about the signing, but this week an announcement. An excelle...
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Alfie Bloom - Gabrielle Kent
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Alfie Bloom: The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle.
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Out in the Wild - Gabrielle Kent
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Alfie Bloom: The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle. Out in the Wild. So it has finally happened. Alfie Bloom is out in the big wide world. It feels slightly surreal to be a published author. I have spent the last few days lurking in shops and springing out at anyone that comes close to picking up the book something like Gollum, ‘that’sssss my precioussssss, I wrotes it, I wrotes it all! The launch party was incredible. It was hosted by Stockton Central Library. Fellow author, Russell Sanderson, has a lovely wr...
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Out in the Wild - Gabrielle Kent
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Alfie Bloom: The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle. Out in the Wild. Publication A Done Deal. Friday Night Live My X-Factor moment. And, we’re off!
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The Dreaded Question - Gabrielle Kent
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Alfie Bloom: The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle. Just back from a weekend down in Frome (pronounced Froom) on a Golden Egg Academy Workshop called Mapping Your Novel. I met a wonderful group of people and together we trained as narrative surgeons, dissecting our novels into their distinct parts and looking at what held them together. Wow, does my brain hurt! The Golden Egg Academy. Was set up by Imogen Cooper. Senior Editor for Chicken House Publishing. In your own writing, do you have a MacGuffin. Write th...
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Spelling - Gabrielle Kent
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Alfie Bloom: The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle. View the Spelling List.
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Friday Night Live – My X-Factor moment - Gabrielle Kent
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Alfie Bloom: The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle. Friday Night Live My X-Factor moment. Last weekend I made a fantastic investment in my future as a writer, I attended the Festival of Writing in York, an annual event organised by Writers’ Workshop. Then, there’s the competitions: Best Opening Chapter and Friday Night Live. I was too late for the first comp so I picked a 500 word excerpt from this chapter. And entered it for Friday Night. The way it works is each writer gets up in turn to read their excerpt a...
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Alfie Bloom at his launch - Gabrielle Kent
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Alfie Bloom: The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle. Alfie Bloom at his launch. Alfie Bloom at London Book Fair.
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About Gabrielle - Gabrielle Kent
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Alfie Bloom: The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle. Gabrielle is an author of magical realism novels for middle grade. She is currently working on a series about a boy born during a magical timeslip who inherits a castle that had been sealed for centuries. The first book is called Alfie Bloom and the Secrets of Hexbridge Castle. Where she directs the Animex. International Festival of Animation and Computer Games.
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