Lucy Strange: How Scary is too Scary? | Mark Stay's Creative Differences Episode 14

Lucy Strange is an award-winning children’s author whose books feel like classic children’s literature, but are written in a style that is engaging and accessible for today’s younger readers. Most recently she’s collaborated with artist Pam Smy on their spooky, funny new series Lockett & Wilde’s Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries!
Often inspired by folklore and fairy tales, Lucy combines historical settings with touches of magic and fantasy to create utterly convincing worlds in which anything might happen.

And before becoming a professional writer, Lucy worked as an English teacher for fifteen years. Having also trained and worked as an actor, Lucy narrates her own audiobooks, winning the 2019 Audie Award for The Secret of Nightingale Wood.

WE DISCUSS:
Collaborating with illustrators
What Lucy learned from abridging Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Writer's Block and how to deal with it
And how scary is too scary when writing for children?
And much more!

LINKS
Lucy's Website: https://www.lucystrange.org
The Episode with GB Ralph: https://markstaycreativedifferences.com/2024/12/12/episode-5-with-gb-ralph-share-the-excitment/

What's Giving Us Joy...
Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry: https://serpentstail.com/work/the-essex-serpent/
Instead of a Letter, Diana Athill: https://granta.com/products/instead-of-a-letter/
Once Upon a River, Diane Setterfield: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/437745/once-upon-a-river-by-diane-setterfield/9781784163631
Death at the Sign of the Rook, Kate Atkinson: https://www.kateatkinson.co.uk/books/death-at-the-sign-of-the-rook/
Buckingham Nicks: https://www.roughtrade.com/product/lindsey-buckingham-and-stevie-nicks/buckingham-nicks
Superstore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstore_(TV_series)
Robert Redford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redford

A huge thanks to Emily for production assistance, to Kai Newton for the edit, and Dominic Currie for the jingle.