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I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

- Tony Bradman
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At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.

At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.

Mum told me stories about her time in the Women's Royal Navy, and about her dad, who had died before I was born - he'd been sent to Australia as a child, then joined the Australian Army in the First World War and fought at Gallipoli.

I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

These days it seems that every big, new, heavily promoted children's book is rather like the ghost of poor old Jacob Marley. Each one comes trailing a long, clanking chain of references - in the form of overexcited press releases and slightly hysterical jacket blurbs - to bestsellers of a supposedly similar nature.

I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.

Children's publishing is the jewel in the crown of British publishing.

If your characters are two-dimensional and your plot uncompelling, it won't matter how incredibly detailed and believable your fantasy world might be.

Sally Gardner must drive her publishers to distraction: no sooner have they worked out how to market one brilliant book than she delivers another that is just as brilliant but totally different.

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I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from ?34,000 a year to ?16,000.