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Jack Meggitt-Phillips

Join Jack Meggitt-Phillips as he discusses his love of macabre humour, tips for writing a series and sets three writing challenges

About The Author:

Jack Meggitt Phillips is an incredibly exciting new talent. He is an author, scriptwriter and playwright whose work has been performed at The Roundhouse and featured on Radio 4. He is scriptwriter and presenter of The History of Advertising podcast. In his mind, Jack is an enormously talented ballroom dancer, however his enthusiasm far surpasses his actual talent. Jack lives in north London where he spends most of his time drinking peculiar teas and reading PG Wodehouse novels.

 

About The Book:

The Beast and the Bethany has all the classic macabre humour of Roald Dahl with the warmth and charm of Despicable Me, finished off with a gleeful bite of Little Shop of Horrors! Ebenezer Tweezer is a youthful 511-year-old. He keeps a beast in the attic of his mansion, who he feeds all manner of things (including performing monkeys, his pet cat and the occasional cactus) and in return the beast vomits out presents for Ebenezer, as well as potions which keep him young and beautiful. But the beast grows ever greedier, and soon only a nice, juicy child will do. So when Ebenezer encounters orphan Bethany, it seems like (everlasting) life will go on as normal. But Bethany is not your average orphan . . .

 

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What is The Beast and the Bethany about?

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What can you tell us about the main characters?

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Part 1 of Jack's Writing Challenge

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Part 2 of Jack's Writing Challenge

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Part 3 of Jack's Writing Challenge

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Watch this after the writing challenge!

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A reading from The Beast and the Bethany

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Q&A about writing

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Q&A about The Beast and the Bethany

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Do you have any tips when it comes to writing a series?

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Resource download: 'The Beast and the Bethany' extract