Forthcoming Events
STRIDENT AUTHORS AT THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL
KEITH CHARTERS: THE WRITING BUSINESS:MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR WRITING - WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25TH, 11AM-12.30
LINDA STRACHAN: WRITING WORKSHOP: WRITING FOR YOUNG CHILDREN -THURSDAY AUGUST 26TH, 11AM-12.30
JOHN WARD: WRITING WORKSHOP: WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS:FROM FANTASY TO REALITY- FRIDAY AUGUST 27TH, 11AM-12.30
THE WRITING BUSINESS: THE ANATOMY OF A GOOD STORY - SATURDAY 28TH AUGUST 2-3PM.
Gillian Philip & Linda Strachan longlisted for Catalyst Book Awards 2010
Strident is delighted to announce ‘Spider’ by Linda Strachan and ‘Bad Faith’ by Gillian Philip have been longlisted for the ‘2009 Catalyst Book Awards’. Congratulations to both!
Reviews of The Comet’s Child by John Ward
The Bookbag- December 2009
“…what a pleasure to read such a well-crafted story…I chose to read this book because it’s advertised as ‘in the classic tradition of Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander’. Well I’m going to disagree because I think this book is more in the classic tradition of Philip Pullman, although I’m sure no publisher or author would dare stake that sort of claim for himself.”
To read the full review click here.
Reviews of Bree McCready and the Half-Heart Locket
“This exciting and magical adventure story is a real page turner from start to finish.” The Bookbag
“Good friends, action, and thrills, oh my! Bree had all of it.”
The Book Owl
Read Linda Strachan’s guest blog for Wondrous Reads.
Linda was recently invited to be a guest blogger by Jenny Davies of Wondrous Reads. There was a terrific response and we’d like to thank Jenny for her support. Click here to read
Strident is delighted to announce
that ‘Spider’ has been shortlisted for Falkirk
Council’s RED Book Award
How did I get here?
Dreams..? Nightmares more like.
My life was sorted. Well, I thought so – I was pretty stupid. Ducking and diving here and there, thieving – just small things, twocking the odd car for a Run. A real peach of a girlfriend – rich too – and I had a reputation as a bit of a hard man.What more could I ask?
Some might say I got exactly what I was asking for and maybe they’re right.
I just don’t know or care anymore. Thought I was so clever; but you can’t hide from some things and when your nightmares come true….
I had one last night. A nightmare. I didn’t sleep much, so it must have been in one of those moments when you just drift off. But it was so bad I woke up screaming silently, shaking and sweating, tears streaming from my eyes, not sure where I was.
But that’s probably not surprising, is it?
It was shadowy and dark in my nightmare and I was looking at Deanna. She was crying and I couldn’t get her to stop. There was something in her arms but she wouldn’t let me see it. Her hand was covering it and when she lifted her hand for a moment it was dripping with dark red blood. She started yelling at me.
“See what you did, Spider!” I wanted to shout back that I didn’t do it; I didn’t mean it to happen.
I wanted to tell her that I was sorry, so sorry….
