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Steven Toast said:
This is the thing, though, I adore my job. Teaching young children is an amazing privilege. There aren’t many professions where they work you to death and you don’t care because you want to see those 27 faces the next day.

But I am a writer at heart and I did once have a kids book written for 5-7 year olds, but anxiety stopped me approaching publishers. I’m hoping I can beat it, my dream is to read a book I wrote for my little girl’s bed time.
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Write it for her, other kids' authors write for their own kids
 
Steven Toast said:
This is the thing, though, I adore my job. Teaching young children is an amazing privilege. There aren’t many professions where they work you to death and you don’t care because you want to see those 27 faces the next day.

But I am a writer at heart and I did once have a kids book written for 5-7 year olds, but anxiety stopped me approaching publishers. I’m hoping I can beat it, my dream is to read a book I wrote for my little girl’s bed time.
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Just find out what your daughters favourite book is, scrub the authors name out and write yours on it.
Kidsll believe out.
No point ****ing about mate.
 
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Steven Toast said:
This is the thing, though, I adore my job. Teaching young children is an amazing privilege. There aren’t many professions where they work you to death and you don’t care because you want to see those 27 faces the next day.

But I am a writer at heart and I did once have a kids book written for 5-7 year olds, but anxiety stopped me approaching publishers. I’m hoping I can beat it, my dream is to read a book I wrote for my little girl’s bed time.
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I taught for almost forty years. That's how I knew I could write because I didn't use text books. I wrote my own stuff. I loved the job and still do some work in school snow about writing skills. I wrote three novels while I was teaching but none of them got past the second reading. I didn't have any problem getting the textbooks published but the fiction is much harder. Publishers only take on certain successes. It's the same with agents. My first kids' book was published after I finished teaching. You have to keep banging on at publishers and become thick skinned to rejection. It's going to happen. You only need that door to open once though. Best of luck with it. PM me if I can help you.
 
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John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
Just bought a copy, looking forward to reading it. I travelled to East Germany in the Seventies & Eighties so anything to do with East Germany always is of interest to read. Likely to be my read and the plane.
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Ah so rather than the paper back, hard back or kindle you went for the aluminium and composite material one.
 
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StubbDave said:
Is A Darker State and Stasi State the same book? If so, I now have the full set.
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Hi Dave. Yes. The publishers thought Stasi Wolf hadn't done as well as they expected, so dropped the 'Stasi' from the titles for A Darker State. Then everyone got confused so they went back to 'Stasi" in all titles (really just as a shorthand for East Germany -- the main character is actually not a Stasi officer) and so A Darker State was renamed Stasi State for e-books (and will be for paperback if and when they reprint it).

If anyone wants all five in paperback, there's a good deal here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/912395096X/?tag=not606-21

The 99p Stasi Winter is now in the top 200 Kindle Books overall so going along quite nicely:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WN8V6PN/?tag=not606-21
 
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tigermaul said:
Hi Dave. Yes. The publishers thought Stasi Wolf hadn't done as well as they expected, so dropped the 'Stasi' from the titles for A Darker State. Then everyone got confused so they went back to 'Stasi" in all titles (really just as a shorthand for East Germany -- the main character is actually not a Stasi officer) and so A Darker State was renamed Stasi State for e-books (and will be for paperback if and when they reprint it).

If anyone wants all five in paperback, there's a good deal here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/912395096X/?tag=not606-21

The 99p Stasi Winter is now in the top 200 Kindle Books overall so going along quite nicely:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WN8V6PN/?tag=not606-21
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Thanks. I've got a clear run at reading them all now.
 
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