with Cathy Cassidy and Fiona Gibson
Tuesday March 28th 1:00 - 4:00pm
Lochthorn Library, Dumfries
Tickets £3.00
Do you want to make the break into writing professionally?
Have you ever read a novel and thought you could do better?
Children's novelist Cathy Cassidy and popular novelist Fiona Gibson share their experiences of writing fiction: getting started, writing for a market, finding agents, finding a publisher. A valuable opportunity to ask the questions that you've always wanted to ask, and to find out about the realities of working as a writer.
Cathy Cassidy worked as fiction editor on Jackie Magazine. She is also the agony aunt for Shout Magazine. Her first novel 'Dizzy' was published by Puffin in 2004, and she followed this with 'Indigo Blue' and 'Driftwood'. She is growing a steady following among younger readers, for writing about mature themes in a way younger readers can relate to. Her fourth novel is due this year.
Fiona Gibson has worked on various teenage and women's magazines, including Jackie and Just Seventeen, and as a freelance features writer for publications such as the Guardian, the Observer, Marie Claire. She writes a weekly column in the Sunday Herald. Her first novel, 'Babyface', was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2003, followed by 'Wonderboy', in 2004, and a non-fiction book about family life, 'The Fish Finger Years', was published last year, also by Hodder. A new novel, Lucky Girl, is out in June 2007. Her work centres mainly around family and relationship issues.
Book with Andrew Forster on 01387 253383 or andrew@dgaa.net
