About the Book
Title: Taking Wings
Author: Clemency Crow
Genre: Middle Grade Adventure
12-year-old
Freya enjoys karate and is the only one in her class who’s trusted with a
part-time job. But everything changes when she meets a boy with yellow eyes.
She learns about the guardians, and how an age-old fight has stopped them from
fulfilling their purpose. Freya finds new friends in the crow tribe but not
everything in the castle is blissful. A destructive shadow lies within her and
all she needs to do to summon it is close her eyes. But as the guardian’s war
rages on, Freya realises that, although the shadow’s power can be useful, it
can’t create peace. Freya and her friends must solve the crime that began the
war, but can they bring the guardians together before they destroy each other?
Author Bio
I can't
remember when I wrote my first story. We had a word processor when I was very
little. It was an archaic piece of technology with no mouse, which meant you
had to know the codes for it to work. My sister, Judith, and I wrote several
stories using this. I think one of my stories was about a mammoth, probably
during my I-want-to-be-a-mammoth-when-I-grow-up stage.
When I
was a bit older, during Year 3 at Primary School, another sister brought home
several A5 grey jotters and gave one to Ginny and Judith to plan and write
their stories in. Naturally, I wanted a notebook too, so I said I was writing a
story called "The Rule of the Unicorns". I never finished that rather
peculiar tale, but it meant I got one of those A5 grey jotters!
A good
few years down the line and I'm a Primary Teacher in the tip-top north of
Scotland. To encourage a love of reading in my pupils, I write a story with
them in for their Christmas present. The first thing they do is flick through
and try and find their name - but I hope they enjoy the story too!
When
I'm not teaching, I love writing, working on my allotment and I'm crazy enough
to be doing a Science degree at the same time.
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Hello!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post! It seems very surreal that Launch Day has finally happened! I'm sitting in the Guest House feeling as though the last three days has been a whirlwind of a dream!
So many workshops, schools and a couple of evening events thrown in for good measure! Tomorrow will see me begin the journey back home to Caithness, stopping off to see Lindisfarne on the way!
Thanks again for your post and I hope people enjoy reading the book as much as I enjoyed writing it!