The House of Mirrors
Pierdomenico Baccalario
The Top 23 Rules for Becoming a Frighteningly Good Writer
Adventure
Humorous
An entertaining story that’s also a useful guide full of tips, hints and practical advice on how to write.
Two writers and friends meet on an island for a convention but remain trapped there as the result of a heavy storm. They decide to stay in a small hotel. The island is left without electricity with nothing to do. But Gilda, the daughter of the owner, has an idea: to open a mysterious box that belonged to her Great Uncle Evaristo, who was a writer too. On the box is a label: “This box contains everything you need to become a writer”.
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Tips, secrets, suggestions and ideas.
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In this funny and useful handbook, young readers will find everything they need to make an ingenious plot, describe an uncanny (even bizarre) situation and fix a limping writing and finally shine on the writing hall of fame!
Publisher:
Mondadori
Target:
8-10
Year:
2016
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario
Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.
Author
Alessandro Gatti
Alessandro Gatti was born in 1975. As a young man, he studied a lot of philosophy but then he thought it was best to start writing novels for children. He is the author of the Klincus Corteccia books (Mondadori), which have just been adapted into a cartoon series. Along with Pierdomenico Baccalario and Lucia Vaccarino, he is also the author of the novels in the Sherlock, Lupin & Io (Sherlock, Lupin & Me) series, Piemme, translated into several languages. For a few years he has also been a comic book writer for Disney.
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