Stephen Davies

Welcome. My name is Stephen Davies and I am a children's author writing picture books, chapter books and teen novels. I have lived in Africa for ten years, working with World Horizons amongst Fulani cattle herders. My books are set in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, on the edge of the Sahara Desert.

Tag: Andersen Press

Free Epub – 10 chapters of OUTLAW

by Stephen Davies

Ten free chapters? It’s not every day you see that. Andersen Press have made a generous slice of OUTLAW available as a free epub download. Epubs are readable on many ebook readers including Sony Reader, Kobo, Nook, Ipad, Cybook Opus, iPhone and iPod Touch. If you don’t have an ebook reader you can read it [...]

Published: September 9, 2011 | Filed Under: Free Ebook, Outlaw, YA books | Tags: : : : : : : : : : : : : :

The Making of a Picture Book Part Five: Synergy

by Stephen Davies

This is the last in this week’s blog series on how to write a picture book. Whether you are a published picture book author, an aspiring picture book author or a simply-curious, I hope that you have found one or two morsels of useful advice over the course of this series. I am no picture [...]

Published: September 9, 2011 | Filed Under: Picture Books, Writing Tips | Tags: : : : : : : :

The Making of a Picture Book Part Four: ILLUSTRATION

by Stephen Davies

There has been some kind appreciation and enthusiastic tweeting in response to this ‘Making of a Picture Book’ blog series, so thank you very much. If the series has interested or entertained or provided new ideas then I am happy. If you missed parts one, two and three, there’s still time to catch up: The [...]

Published: September 8, 2011 | Filed Under: Picture Books, Writing Tips | Tags: : : : : : : : :

The Making of a Picture Book Part Two: CHARACTER

by Stephen Davies

Welcome to part two of my blog series ‘The Making of a Picture Book’. If you need to catch up, here is The Making of a Picture Book Part One: PLOT. In today’s installment we will be looking at character. . The characters in most picture books are pretty two-dimensional. What can we say about [...]

Published: September 6, 2011 | Filed Under: Picture Books, Writing Tips | Tags: : : : : : : :

The Goggle-Eyed Goats

by Stephen Davies

I thought it would be interesting to do a blog series entitled The Making of a Picture Book, detailing the process we went through to create The Goggle-Eyed Goats. Here are the links: The Making of a Picture Book Part One: Plot The Making of a Picture Book Part Two: Character The Making of a [...]

Published: September 2, 2011 | Filed Under: Picture Books, Writing Tips | Tags: : : : :