Phoenix

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sf said, i wish i could have my own copy of Phoenix to keep as i have been reading it up to chapter thirteen and think it is fantastic!What inspired you to become an author and write Phoenix? If you're analysing writing at the moment, you might be interested to read this blog I made about my writing process - it compares an early draft of Phoenix with the final draft. I hope you find it useful with your own writing: Thank you very much for your kind comment! As I say, I don't know when Tyger will be finished, but I will definitely write about it here when I have any more news.

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and librarians are among the most important people in my world . Because I write in libraries. I love libraries. Dear SF Said, me and my class have been reading Phoenix and its amazing, everyone loves it. We are on chapter 13 so far and we are excited to know what happens next, we even made pictures like the illustrations from the book. Thank you so much, it's great to hear that you're enjoying Phoenix so much! At the moment, I'm not planning to write a sequel, but I am working on a new trilogy called TYGER. Here's a link to a blog where you can read more about it if you'd like to know more. The inspiration for Phoenix came from many different places. Here's a link to a blog post where I wrote about some of them.

Imagine how different you would be if the history of your world was different,' said the tyger. "There are infinite possible histories of the world, and of yourselves. So you should never stop questioning the world, and everything in it; wondering how it could be different.” Thank you so much for that fantastic comment! I really appreciate it, and I'm really glad Phoenix is one of your favourite books! I think you've got some great teachers in your school who can help you become even better at writing. And I've done a series of writing tips on this blog– I hope some of them will be useful. Since all your books were a lot of words I've actually reached 5 Million words and I am the top in my class!! Thank you! From Sylivia

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Thank you so much for your message - it really means a lot to me, especially the fact that you read my book twice! That's so wonderful to hear! Thank you for working with Phoenix - and please wish Year 4 happy writing & happy reading from me! Hi Ivan, thank you for your questions! The next book after Phoenix will be the one I'm working on now. The working title is TYGER. I'm not sure when it will be finished; I'm on the 3rd draft at the moment, and have been writing it for about a year... I'll post an update if I have any big news about it! Some of us were wondering if we could have a Skype chat in the future? We have many questions about the book that we would love to ask you.TYGER sounds amazing! I thought Phoenix and Varjak Paw were the best books ever,but this sounds like it will be even better! WOW!!!!! Thanks for writing them. I can't wait until you complete TYGER. Kai, I do remember going to college with someone called Victoria! Please say hello to her for me, and tell her to get in touch one day, I'd love to hear from her again!

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I hope that I will keep getting better as a writer, though. The book I'm working on right now is called TYGER, and when it's finished, I think it will be a big step up on Phoenix. I've been working on it for 2 years so far; I'm not sure how much longer it will take, but hopefully less than the 7 years that Phoenix took me! Hi Megan, and thank you so much for your fantastic comment! It really means a lot to hear things like that about my books. Phoenix took me seven years to write, but all the hard work feels worthwhile when I hear something like that from a reader like you! SF Said is a Fellow of Royal Society Of Literature, andis active in the wider world of literature and the arts. He has judged the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Book Awards (now the Costa Book Awards) and the Amnesty CILIP Honour. He has given talks at the British Library, the British Film Institute, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and on BBC Radio 4. He has also written extensively about children's and young adult fiction for both the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. Here is a selection: My next book will be called TYGER and it will come out whenever it's ready. You can read a bit about it here:I can still remember how I pictured Varjak and his surroundings in my mind's eye, even so vividly to this day. To me, it was so much more than a story about a cat that did martial arts, and still is. So, thank you for inspiring me, and I'm sure many more kids just like me! Thank you, that's very kind! I'm 2 1/2 years into writing Tyger at the moment; I don't know when it will be finished, but I hope not as long as the 7 years it took me to write Phoenix! They would be overwelmed to read a reply from you, as they are currently writing their own ‘Phoenix Style’ story this week. someone whose whole life is focused on writing books? Librarians are total stars, as far as I'm concerned, and Believe something is impossible,’ said his ancestor calmly, ‘and you will surely fail. But believe in yourself and you can do anything.”