It’s Susanna Hill’s 7th Annual Halloweensie Contest!

 

Aaahhhrrroooooo!  Yippee and tee-hee-hee! It is Susanna Hill’s Annual Halloweensie Contest and my Teensy-Weensy Witch is back for another adventure!

The challenge is to write a 100 word Halloween story appropriate for children under the age of 12 (title not included in the 100 words) using the words candy corn, monster and shadow (candy corn will be counted as 1 word).  More details can be found at https://susannahill.com/2017/10/27/the-7th-annual-halloweensie-contest-aahhhrrrooooooooo/

Remember…you have until 11.59 PM EDT on Tuesday 31st October to get an entry written and posted!

 

The Teensy-Weensy Witch’s Trip and Treat (99 words)

The Teensy-Weensy Witch was leaving town at Halloween,

for a New York City weekend filled with fun.

She packed her best, long shadow in her pointy purple hat,

feeling sure her costume wouldn’t be outdone!

She spied the cutest monster munching sacks of candy corn,

but that’s when things got tricky, I’m afraid.

She coyly sauntered over, tripped and landed on his belly,

sending candy corn all over the parade.

Her teensy-weensy shadow tangled tightly round her legs,

what an absolutely funny looking sight!

The monster disentangled her, they danced the Monster Mash

and stayed to watch the moonset at daylight.

 

Thanks for popping by!

Happy Halloween!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little Tiger and Little Panda to be published!

 

In March 2016, I entered Little Tiger into Vivian Kirkfield’s 50 Precious Words contest. To my delight, Vivian fell in love with the story and awarded it first place! My first contest win! I was over the moon!

This contest led to signing with my wonderful agent Essie White (www.stormliteraryagency.com). She had offered a prize to critique a story. I jumped at the opportunity and she loved Little Tiger and offered representation.

A good few months passed and an editor showed interest in Little Tiger. She suggested I write another ‘Little’ story. I gave it some thought and decided on a snow based setting, to differentiate a little from Little Tiger’s jungle home. I looked into panda behaviour, made my notes and Little Panda was born. In the end the original editor passed, but she kindly sent the stories onto a colleague. When Amicus Ink approached my agent to ask if I would consider publishing Little Tiger and Little Panda as board books, I could barely control my excitement. “Yes” I replied to Essie! “YES, YES, YES!”

Here is the announcement which appeared in Publishers Weekly a couple of weeks ago.

I am thrilled that Suzie Mason will illustrate these books. Please take a look at her amazing artwork here http://thebrightagency.com/artists/view/690?page=1

And keep an eye on http://www.viviankirkfield.com. She has wonderful picture book reviews every week and, of course, the third 50preciouswords contest will be coming up next spring.