reading festival presentation

Ötzi

How did I become an author ?

When I was a lad…Keep a diary

Teaching and beyond….

Book for teachersThe GuardianBBCGoogleJournals iGCSE Textbook

1991 - Alps

Discovery• Walking• Melting ice…• Climate Change…

Manuscript – first draft

• Feedback from editors… always accept their comments…

• Page plan • Narrative arc • Drawing in reader• Word count• Images: permission from museum…

Reading

2 sections….

a) Discovery of the body (fact)

b) Some of the thinking about his death… (fiction)

Science – over 20 years…Tattoos

• 3 D Scan: http://iceman.eurac.edu/

Editing and refining

• 3 drafts with comments• Picture editors choosing images…• Proof-reading – 3 different people reading…

Reconstruction And the work

goes on….

Just last week…

Publication

Sales

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - over 40 million copies sold

• ‘The Ice Man’ – over 2 000 copies sold…

Next book(s)Extreme Survival – Collinsdigitalearth – eBook in Europenew GCSE Geography textbook – joint author

Questions