Collaborative writing is fairly rare in the world of publishing – and writing while working alongside each other in a bookshop cafe is even rarer! But that was exactly how friends and workmates Clayton Zane Comber and Conor McCammon went about co-authoring their new junior fiction illustrated adventure, The Marvellous Submarine. In this episode, they share their experience creating the story together, illustrating it and getting it published.

00:00 Welcome
05:32 Writing tip: Using paintings as a writing prompt
06:54 WIN!: The Verifiers by Jane Pek
09:27 Word of the week: ‘Blatherskite’
10:40 The world of words: ‘Thank you’
12:25 Writers in residence: Clayton Zane Comber and Conor McCammon
13:40 Describing The Marvellous Submarine
14:30 The inspiration for the project
17:33 Writing for a particular age group
19:59 How sharing the writing worked
24:53 The inconsistencies of bizarre worlds
25:49 Conor on illustrating the book
29:27 The defining moment of the project
31:49 Their publishing journey
35:30 The book promotion experience
39:53 Advice for aspiring authors
42:45 Upcoming projects
44:44 Final thoughts

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