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Francesca Armour-Chelu

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Children's, Fantasy, Young Adult

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Francesca Armour-Chelu is a novelist and short story writer.
After reading English & Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London she worked with children with disabilities and in care, before moving into libraries & museum education. When not writing, she continues to work for public libraries and runs creative writing workshops.
Her debut ‘Fenn Halflin and the Fearzero’ was short-listed for the Mslexia Children's Novel and long-listed for the Branford Boase Award. The sequel, 'Fenn Halflin and the Seaborn' was short-listed for the Mal Peet Award. Her short story 'The Starving Ghost' won the Mslexia Short Story Competition and her novel ‘Lemon Ink Over Flame' was shortlisted for the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize.
Francesca lives in Suffolk with h ...more

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Francesca Armour-Chelu Getting something right after you've struggled to find the way to say it, then someone says 'I loved that bit'. That's a great moment. Writing can fee…moreGetting something right after you've struggled to find the way to say it, then someone says 'I loved that bit'. That's a great moment. Writing can feel a bit lonely so it's lovely when you realise you struck a chord with another human being.
It's also fantastic when you finally hold your book and smell it! (I'm certain every new author smells their book; its an OCD they share ) and you see the cover art work and all the work the publishers put in to get it just right and you feel so pleased it all came together. But it's also amazing to think 'I made that world': its characters, language,climate or geography. It's actually quite surreal.(less)

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Francesca Armour-Chelu I don't. I'm terrible with it. That said, a walk usually helps. But if I can't walk I eat. I'm normally a healthy eater but when I'm feeling stressed …moreI don't. I'm terrible with it. That said, a walk usually helps. But if I can't walk I eat. I'm normally a healthy eater but when I'm feeling stressed Monster Munch crisps have a strangely powerful allure for me.(less)

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	The Butterfly Circus 3.89 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Blogging about not blogging

I've committed the cardinal sin of blogging. My agent once gave me a piece of very sound advice that I've ignored; she said 'If you start a blog for God's sake keep it up or else it looks like you've abandoned your own life. Not good!'

I had such high hopes I wouldn't do that, so here's a very short post just to explain why; namely that the rewrite for Book Two of Fenn Halflin is taking SO DAMN LON Read more of this blog post »

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Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)

by Sebastian Barry

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“No more hiding in the darkness. A fire like this would be seen for hundreds of miles.”
― Francesca Armour-Chelu, Fenn Halflin and the Fearzero

tags: inspirational, rebellion

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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

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“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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“No more hiding in the darkness. A fire like this would be seen for hundreds of miles.”
― Francesca Armour-Chelu, Fenn Halflin and the Fearzero

tags: inspirational, rebellion

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu (SUNY series in Religion and Philosophy)

tags: philosophy, spirituality

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