I have always loved writing. Actually – I have always loved reading and writing was a natural progression. At school I was the girl who wrote “ novels” for my classmates to read.
As an adult I decided to enrol on a writing course which had two fantastic results: one was that I met the girl who is now my best friend, and the other is that by working with a writing mentor, I not only improved my own writing but became much better at teaching creative writing to others. As a bonus, I have written and published a children’s book.
I have disabled friends, and I felt that there weren’t enough children’s books with a disabled main character – and so I wrote one!
Broccoli’s Dream is about a fairy who can’t fly. She is bullied for her disability by some of the children in her class, and she is left out of activities by well-meaning adults who tell her she cannot do the same activities as her friends. The book is about how she learns to stand up for herself and finds a way to achieve her dreams. It’s aimed at children aged 7-11 and is available from Amazon as both Kindle and paperback versions. You’ll find it under the pen name Jennifer Victor.
