Kids News readers sent in some great questions for Francesca Gibbons about her new book, A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth, and story writing in general.
See her video answers to her favourite questions below:
Mylie – Are moths you favourite insect?
Chloe – Has COVID influenced your writing?
Cormac – How do you come up with your ideas?
Eleanor – In your opinion, what is the most import element to writing a book?
Ruby – What did you learn when writing the book?
Minnie – When the illustrator drew the creatures based on your descriptions, were they how you imagined they would look?
Mia – Who inspired you to write books?
Daniel – Who is your favourite writer?
Ava – Who or what inspired the characters?
Sebastian – Why did you choose to call the moth the Shadow Moth and not the Ghost Moth or the Shiny Moth?
ABOUT A CLOCK OF STARS: THE SHADOW MOTH
Imogen should be nice to her little sister Marie. She should be nice to her mum’s boyfriend too. And she certainly shouldn’t follow a strange silver moth through a door in a tree.
But then … who does what they’re told?
Followed by Marie, Imogen finds herself falling into a magical kingdom where the two sisters are swept up in a thrilling race against time — helped by the spoiled prince of the kingdom, a dancing bear, a very grumpy hunter … and even the stars above them.
Thrilling, sharply funny, and with characters you will fall in love with, A Clock of Stars is a timeless fantasy from an astonishing new voice.
READ THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS
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