Louise Arnold is an English writer of
Children's literature. Her published works to date include the
Grey Arthur series of novels.
Biography
Personal life
Arnold was born in
Morden,
Surrey
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. She wrote her first poem aged four, and lived in
Bognor Regis until she passed her A-Level exams. She graduated from the
University of Kent in 2003 with a 2.1 in drama. While studying there, she was diagnosed with
dyslexia
Dyslexia, also known until the 1960s as word blindness, is a disorder characterized by reading below the expected level for one's age. Different people are affected to different degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, r ...
.
She now lives in
Canterbury, Kent.
Professional life
In 2003 the BBC News website launched a competition to find "The next
J. K. Rowling". Entrants were invited to submit the first paragraph of a children's book. A selection of these was then put to an online public vote, which Arnold subsequently won with her entry, entitled "A not very frightening ghost". She was signed by an agent, Kate Jones, which then led to a publishing deal,
with her first novel ''The Invisible Friend'' being released in 2005.
"I was contacted by an agent and had to go for meetings which was very daunting because the industry was all new to me and I had little clue how it all worked...But I got lucky with the people I met and I realise how lucky I am to have this opportunity."
"I was given a deadline of a year to write the book, which I delivered on time. I'm a bit of daydreamer so I needed that deadline to get me down to working."
Published works
* ''
'' (2005)
* ''
Golden & Grey: The Nightmares That Ghosts Have'' (2006)
* ''
Golden & Grey: A Good Day for Haunting'' (2008)
In England, the title instead of An Unremarkable Boy and a Rather Remarkable Ghost is:
* ''
The Invisible Friend
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and the title for The Nightmares That Ghosts Have is:
* ''
The Ghost School
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Interviews
Spotlight on Louise Arnold
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
The Invisible Friend
English children's writers
Living people
Writers with dyslexia
Year of birth missing (living people)
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