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.

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Present tense for novel writing

by Stephen Davies

So I’m reading Matt Haig’s wonderful novel The Radleys. I usually don’t like vampire stories but this is about a very English family of vampire ‘abstainers’ living in suburbia – it’s warm, sympathetic and very funny. Anyway, The Radleys has got me thinking about present tense narration, and even considering it as an option for [...]

Published: June 8, 2012 | Filed Under: Writing Tips, YA books | Tags: : : : : :