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Rosie Rushton can’t quite believe she is a proper author.
Proper authors get up in the morning, cry "Eureka!"
and rush to their word processors to bash out three chapters of
erudite prose before leaving to address an up-market seminar on
The Value of the Sub- clause.
Rosie Rushton gets up in the morning, eats too much muesli, indulges
in a little light foot-stamping because she can’t think
of any good ideas and goes shopping to escape the rigours of Chapter
Four. On a good day, she writes for six hours – that is
if you don’t count the breaks for long emails to her friends,
panic-stricken phone calls to publishers and a quick visit to
see her grandchildren and get a go with the Bionic Lego. On even
better days, she hurtles round the country visiting schools to
run creative writing workshops which are a jolly good idea because
the pupils come up with far better ideas for her books than she
ever could.
Rosie Rushton began her career as a feature writer for a local
paper. Staying Cool, Surviving School was her first book, published
by Piccadilly Press in 1993. After writing another non-fiction
title, You’re My Best Friend, I Hate You! (available from
Puffin), Rosie turned to fiction. A conversation with Piccadilly
turned to embarrassing parents and The Leehampton Quartet was
born.
Rosie lives in Moulton, Northamptonshire. She is a school governor
of a new secondary school and in May 2005 will be licensed as
a Reader in the Church of England. Her hobbies (aside from the
Lego) are: tracing her family history to see who she can blame
for her dottiness, fine wine and food – an interest to which
her buttocks bear evidence – travelling the world, being
with her grandchildren, walking, theatre, reading and all things
Indian. In the future she wants to write a TV drama for teenage
audiences, visit Kathmandu, write the novel that has been pounding
in her brain for years but has never quite got to the keyboard,
and learn to slow down and smell the roses.
Piccadilly Press is reissuing Rosie’s popular What a Week
series, and Rosie is writing several new titles.
You can find out more about Rosie at: www.rosierushton.com |
