![]() ![]() All About Ella then sat on my computer for nearly ten years. I thought it would be an interesting challenge to try and write a short story about Ella, and what it was like having an older brother who was ill, and to enter it into this competition. So I did, and it won – £600, which was a lot of money for me at the time, and also the first fee I ever earned as a writer, which was obviously very exciting. At about the same time, I picked up a leaflet for a competition run by The Northern Echo for a short story for young children. But I suspected she probably had a story of her own, which deserved to be in the book. Ella, the main character in this story, is his little sister. When I was writing the novel, I had real trouble getting Ella to come alive because Sam, who narrates the book, just saw her as his annoying little sister and wasn’t really that interested in talking about her. ![]() Ways to Live Forever is about a boy with terminal leukaemia, and I wrote it in 2005/6 on an MA in Writing for Young People. It’s actually a companion story to the first ever novel I wrote, Ways to Live Forever. This one had rather an unusual route to publication. ![]() Today we play a quick round of Five Questions with Sally Nicholls, the award-winning author of All About Ella, illustrated by Hannah Coulson.īut first, let’s get to know All About Ella in Sally’s own words!Ĭan you tell us about the particular inspiration behind your story? ![]()
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