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English File B2.2 2.1 - Contenido educativo
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Abbey Elphinstone is a successful author of children's books.
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The first set of books I ever wrote was a trilogy.
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The Dream Snatcher came first, the sequel was The Shadow Keeper,
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and then the finale was The Night Spinner.
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After that, I wanted a change of format.
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I wanted to write a standalone book.
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So Sky Song exists as a story completely as a whole by itself.
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Now, though, I'm writing a brand new series called The Unmapped Chronicles,
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and that I think might be five books, which I think might be called a quintet, but I don't know.
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But we'll see. I've written two, and I hope to write three more.
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I write adventure books with a little bit of magic.
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So I straddle two genres, adventure and fantasy.
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My books are quite scary in parts, so readers as young as seven,
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sometimes read the books but get a little bit scared. So I write a different story with every
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book, obviously the plot is different, but the themes, the messages of every single book I write
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are the same. I believe that values of courage, kindness, hope and friendship are the cornerstones
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of what it means to be human. And we live in a world that is often politically, socially,
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morally very turbulent very difficult to understand and so i think now more than ever
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it is important to return to this idea of being tolerant being kind abby hasn't always been an
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author and her journey to getting her work published wasn't always easy i began working
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life as a teacher in a secondary school and I taught for five years English again and I tried
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to write books at the same time as teaching but if anyone has been a teacher they'll know that
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there is a lot of marking it's a very tiring job so the time I gave myself to write was a tiny bit
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you know two hours one hour every night after I'd finished marking so eventually on my fourth book
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my 97th try with a literary agent I got an email saying yes we love this and we would like to
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represent you so it took a long time but I think inside every person or maybe it's just some people
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who face ongoing rejection there grows a quiet grit a determination to succeed no matter what
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so I just kept holding on to the positive comments and tried to rework them into a book that was
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going to be perhaps marketable, successful, enjoyable for readers.
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- Subido por:
- Alberto O.
- Licencia:
- Todos los derechos reservados
- Visualizaciones:
- 288
- Fecha:
- 17 de septiembre de 2023 - 19:18
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Centro:
- EOI E.O.I. DE TORREJÓN DE ARDOZ
- Duración:
- 02′ 52″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.78:1
- Resolución:
- 640x360 píxeles
- Tamaño:
- 19.62 MBytes
