May 18 2023 65 mins 1
Well, this was a hoot - as you'd expect from a guest like Jenny McLachlan, author of the BRILLIANT, bestselling ROAR books, as well as Dead Good Detectives, Stink (Worst. Fairy. Ever) and a whole load more. Jenny began her writing career with amazing YA books, before graduating into equally amazing Middle Grade novels and early readers - so, she has written across the ages, and with equal aplomb in all. She's funny, her characters are memorable, her stories are equal parts heartfelt and hilarious, and this chat was exactly the same. Come with us as we get to know the powerhouse that is Jenny McLachlan, and find out her answer to our perennial question: Are You Storyshaped?
Find Jenny online:
Her Twitter
Books mentioned in this week's episode include Jenny's own:
Flirty Dancing
Love Bomb
Star Struck
Stargazing for Beginners
Sunkissed
Truly, Wildly, Deeply
The Land of Roar
Return to Roar
The Battle for Roar
Dead Good Detectives
Pet Quest
The Jumpy Bumpy Feeling
The Quack in the Kitchen
There's a Chicken in my Bookbag
Zoom to the Moon,
Stink: Worst. Fairy. Ever.
And the stories that shaped her include:
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Topsy and Tim, by Jean and Gareth Anderson
Helpers, Alfie, Moving Molly, and Dogger by Shirley Hughes
The work of Jackie Collins
The work of Jilly Cooper
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
The work of Jane Austen
The work of Charles Dickens
The Beano comic
Pippin in Playland comic
Annuals: Twinkle, Bunty, Mandy
Bella magazine
Just Seventeen magazine
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
The work of Jacqueline Wilson
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
Circe, by Madeleine Miller
The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker
Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep, by Philip Reeve
The work of M.G. Leonard (check out our podcast chat with M.G. here)
TV influences:
Succession
Game of Thrones
Saving Lives at Sea (TV documentary)
Print Media:
Joseph Coelho: I set out to find the happiness I felt as a child, and it worked
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