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A character that has really taken off: Q Pootle 5
“I start to doodle with these thoughts in my head and characters begin to emerge on the paper. Sometimes it’s a slog; sometimes it’s like magic!”
is whether some celebs can actually write, and whether some celebs are given an unfair opportunity to fill up the limited space on Waterstones tables, denying that space to more deserving writers. My own view is that publishers have indulged some celebs because they will attract sales.
Sometimes that indulgence goes as far as duping the public by employing ghostwriters to provide the whole shebang, and all that the celeb provides is their name. I don’t think David Walliams fits into that category of celebrity author.
Right: One of the popular Percy the Park Keeper books and below, Trixie the Witch’s Cat
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