Writers Advice Centre

Masterclass for Illustrators

Creating appealing, engaging and authentic characters is essential to making successful picture books. In this one-day masterclass with the award-winning Dapo Adeola (Look Up!) and acclaimed illustrator Chanté Timothy, you’ll explore character case studies, and use practical exercises and group sharing to transform your sketched character concept into a believable character through movement, gesture and interaction, using story to bring them to life. This masterclass will be delivered in person on Sunday 22nd May 10:00 – 17:00 at the Discover Children’s Story Centre in London. This masterclass can also be delivered online should an attendee not be able to make it. Please follow this link for more information and to purchase your tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pathways-plus-masterclass-bringing-characters-to-life-tickets-168439151035 For more information on our other courses, please visit: https://pathways-org.com/programme/events/

Success Stories

Over the past 20 years we have been instrumental in helping writers find their place with publishers, whether directly or indirectly. The following is just a handful of our success stories…

Bradley’s Dragons
The Mystery of the Never-ending Universe
Little Elephant’s Big Year!
The Scavyngers
A T-wit for a T-woo
Philomena
The Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat
Mustafa’s Jumper
Double Felix
My Dad Will Do
The Secret Lake
My Mum’s a Bug-eyed Monster
The Spy Who Loved School Dinners
Harvey and the Moon Bus
Lost in a Snowstorm
Mr Scribbley
Baby Aliens Got My Teacher
Barking Mad
Shadow Jumper
Ferdinand Fox’s Big Sleep
The Diary Of A Penguin Napper
The Great Farty Slob Beast
Odd Job Frog
The Brother In Burmeon
Mutiny In Space
My Mum Is There

"Thank you for turning this around so quickly for me. The feedback is invaluable and will allow me to make a number of really worthwhile amends before approaching publishers. As I go through the report in more detail I may have the odd question, so thank you for being open to further assistance."

R Myles (Manuscript Appraisal Service)

"I’d like to thank you for your words of encouragement. My wife said to my children after the phone call, ‘That’ll be it now, you won’t see your dad for months as he’ll be busy writing.’ How true!"

Neil Swinney (Telephone Appraisal Service)

"Sharing our book with Louise Jordan at the Writers’ Advice Centre was one of our most important steps on the road to publication of our book My Mum’s a Bug-Eyed Monster. Without Louise’s advice about story pacing and which publishers to target, our monster mum may still be languishing in the slush swamp!"

Andy Rigden & Jim Landen (Face to Face Meeting)

"I am finding this writing course very enjoyable and feel inspired by the assignments. I find your feedback particularly motivating and believe that signing up to this course has not only developed my writing confidence, but is one of the best things I did for my writing career"

Kim White (Home Study Course)

"Thank you for facilitating such an excellent workshop yesterday. I would strongly recommend it to anyone wishing to write for children. Experienced writers would definitely benefit from it as well. Pure gold!"

A Chisambo (Writing Workshop)