Kiwi Write4Kidz - Kathy White



home about us author visits events & workshops authors illustrators reviews news newsletters membership faq writing for children more writing workshops author visits contact contact us links	Brigid first published as a schoolgirl, her stories appearing in the children’s pages of the Evening Post in the 1970s. Some 30 years later her first novel for children, Stella Star, was published in 2005 by Scholastic after Brigid won the Tom Fitzgibbon award for a previously unpublished writer (the Evening Post stories didn’t count!). Stella Star was written during her baby son’s afternoon sleeps. It is the story of Stella Doyle, a young aspiring playwright whose summer holiday production of her own play, ‘Murder at the Swansong Hotel’, involves more intrigue than she planned for. The novel was included in the Storylines Notable Books List for 2006. A sequel, Maybe Stella, followed in 2007. Stella travels to Ireland where she divides her time between helping with her sister’s baby and helping with her sister’s love interests. She is an enthusiastic matchmaker but not necessarily a good one. The novel grew in part out of the author’s own experience of living in Ireland with her family for a year when she was 10. Brigid writes reading group discussion notes for the Book Discussion Scheme. She also speaks to school children about writing as part of Duffy Books in Homes, bringing kids the message “It’s cool to read and cool to achieve!”	Brigid Feehan Back to Author Visits Book this Author

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