The EXPERIMENT…

Published authors do school visits, right? And even published authors find school visits a bit scary, I hear.

What if you’re not published yet?

What if you’re going to do a school visit to the same class every week?

And what if you haven’t even written the book yet?

The deal is, I’m struggling with putting together the crime novel for kids I started thinking about some time ago, so I needed a bit of pressure. Every Friday afternoon, I’m going to read a couple of chapters to two classes at my local primary school. By the week after, I need to have written the next chapters or it will feel like a VERY long afternoon.

Really, it did seem like quite a good idea at the time. They get an insight into the writing process and I get a chance to test my text on its target audience. Win-Win, surely? I’m about to find out…