Teachers are emailing us to tell us about how they’ve been using the story in class and sending us pictures of beautiful underwater art too. We’ve had a few negative comments here and there, but overall the feedback has been amazing! We had a beautiful launch party at Kenilworth Books which included live painting from James Mayhew and lots of cake and fun! We sold out on Amazon in a day and have been getting fantastic five-star reviews from bloggers and reviewers. How have you found the reaction to the release of Nen & the lonely fisherman? So, I wrote this story for the children who never see themselves in fairy tales and for the LGBT+ teenagers, who like me, continue to grow up feeling excluded from the literary space. I used to go swimming every weekend with my parents and would always pretend to have a mermaid tail as I swam around! I wrote so many stories about mermaids as a child and often got in trouble for not writing about anything else! I feel that children at every age have a right to see same-sex couples represented in their books in an age-appropriate, positive and celebratory way. I LOVED mermaids and sunken, underwater cities as a child – there’s something magical and mysterious about them. It felt very therapeutic – I remember sitting in the garden in the hazy sunshine and dreaming of mermen and underwater worlds and it seemed like a lovely escape from the stress and worry of the pandemic. I wrote Nen and the Lonely Fisherman at the beginning of March 2020, just as the first lockdown was happening. What inspired you to write Nen and the lonely fisherman? Although you may struggle to find a copy.
If you haven’t already got a copy of Nen and the Lonely Fisherman, you definitely should! It’s an incredible book that should be in every school. When I saw Ian’s tweet inviting bloggers to ask him some questions about Nen and the Lonely Fisherman I couldn’t resist.
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