Hello all!

[Clara H]

I'm new, just thought I'd say 'hi'.... stumbled across Litopia and thought this looked like a friendly place to explore the writing world that's out there. I'm a teacher from the UK, though striving to be a teacher/writer so I can combine both my interests (with limited success on the writing front so far ), so, yes, greetings!

 

[Barbara]

Hi Clara. Welcome to the Colony!

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Hello

 

[Marc Joan]

Welcome!

 

[Lex Black]

Welcome to the Colony!

 

[Eva Ulian]

Hello Clara, I'd be interested to know something about your writing.

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Welcome to the Colony!

 

[Andrew Okey]

Welcome aboard, Clara

 

[Emily]

Welcome to the Colony @Clara H

 

[Steve C]

Hey There. I like it here. Bet you will too

 

[RK Wallis]

Welcome, Clara!

 

[KateESal]

Hello Clara! Another school employee here. Welcome to the colony.

 

[Webbwalker]

Hello Clara, welcome!

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Welcome to the Colony!

 

[Carol Rose]

Welcome!

 

[Robert M Derry]

Hello, and welcome!

 

[Clara H]

Hello Clara, I'd be interested to know something about your writing.

Hi Eva,
Nice to meet you! The book I'm trying to get representation for at the moment is speculative fiction centred around a teenage boy who gets sent to 'The Exit Room' after misbehaving in class and reemerges back into a parallel world where all the teachers have disappeared. It's pretty much a sly comment on the state of education in the UK I've submitted it to pop-up submissions which is how I stumbled across Litopia.
I also wrote a novel a few years ago which I self-published and now sort of wish I hadn't because I've realised in hindsight it could've done with more work. I had a lot of difficulty defining its genre at the time until one reviewer pointed it out it was clearly a fictionalised memoir!! It's based around the world of Teaching English as a Foreign Language which is what I used to do before re-training into mainstream English Lit.
Aside from that, I have an ongoing project with an illustrator friend of mine which is a children's book called "The Adventures of Phoenix the Magnificent". It's about a small, tubby pony who thinks he's much larger than he is.
So, yes, a bit of everything really. I'm always trying to push myself to write new things!
How about you?
Clara

 

[Eva Ulian]

We have a lot in common Clara. The novel I'm querying deals with the English Education system in the 60s which is a fictionalized memoir, and it was reviewed on Pop Up Subs in April. Here's the link if you care to have a look, it's the second one... You'll find these pop ups are a lot of fun.

 

[Rich.]

Hi Clara, welcome to the Colony!

 

[Nikky Lee]

Hello and welcome!

 

[David Weller]

Welcome to the Colony, Clara.

 

[Jackson Banks]

Hello and welcome.

 

[AgentPete]

Very good to have you part of our community, Clara!

 

[Geoff]

Hi Clara, welcome to Litopia! It's good to see a fellow Kent resident joining.

 

[MartinR]

Welcome aboard, Clara.