Monday's new finds...

Hi everyone - on my return home from Perth yesterday there was a lovely email from madeit.com.au telling me that I'd been listed as one of Monday's new finds!  I feel very special - if you want to check it out go to:

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs078/1102437359584/archive/1104741007870.html

I will go into a lot more detail about the Perth Writers Festival tomorrow but today because I am short of time I can condense it down to:

• there are a lot of writers out there who want to get published
• only 5% of manuscripts submitted turn into published books
• children's books can be the hardest to write - they either work or they don't and editing won't really help if they don't

I had a brilliant time and can only recommend that any writer who wants to be published goes along next year.  More news tomorrow...