Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Inger Brown I am an author but predominantly an illustrator. I specialise in children’s picture books. I have written 10 books now and plan to keep going, it feels the more I do the more ideas I get.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Bobbling’s Christmas Nutcracker.
This was inspired by the ballet The Nutcracker but the story is not really anything like the ballet. It is a wonderful adventure through the enchanted forest trying to find Santa who is lost on Christmas eve.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think my habits are unusual. I am dyslexic so I think I possibly come from things at a different angle. I draw ideas all the time whereas I only write when I have thought about a story and feel its vision ready to plot out in words.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
It is mostly picture books from when I was a child. I dyslexic as mentioned and I always picked up the books with the most amount of pictures hoping I wouldn’t have to actually read them haha…. So I take that with me and keep things heavily illustrated.
What are you working on now?
I have just finished The Bobbling’s Christmas Nutcracker and this was an epic tale for me as it is my first chapter book. However, I do already have my next Bobbling adventure written and I am just plotting out character ideas and colours etc.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I find promotion really hard. I’m not someone naturally to push myself forward so I find it a bit of a mind field. I am pretty active on Instagram and @the_bobbling gets updated with lots of little illustrations and it is a great way to interact with people.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep at it. There are days when it all feels too much or at a loss. There are other times when you have spent so long on a piece of work only to realise that it needs to be completely reworked. It’s frustrating but keep at it, its these hurdles that make you better and in the end the reward sweeter.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never give up.
What are you reading now?
I’m reading a Judge Dredd comic lol.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I am working on another Bobbling book. He is my guy, I have just moved the stories from picture books to chapter books. These chapter books are easy readers and extremely highly illustrated hopefully to help kids make that transition from a little writing to more writing in an enjoyable way.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Oh my how do you answer this question ?!?
Umm…. I think On the road by Jack Kerouac – I read it as a teen, it affect me like most teens but would like to re-read as an adult.
Bob Dylan lyrics – does that count ? lol
Terry Pratchett Guards, Guards. – I loved the dragons in that.
Isaac Asimov robot series
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