{"id":18622,"date":"2016-12-09T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=18622"},"modified":"2016-12-09T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T11:18:48","slug":"claire-fayers-caridiff-based-childrens-book-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/claire-fayers-caridiff-based-childrens-book-author","title":{"rendered":"Claire Fayers: Cardiff-based children's book author"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all want to enjoy working as it takes a big part of our life. However, how can you make it? There is a story of the woman who dreamt of being an author for more than 20 years and finally achieved it.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the 1970\u2019s, a kid was walking around bookshelves, and looking for something interesting in Newport library. She then found an old children\u2019s book, which was about Greek myths and legends. She was absolutely fascinated by the book because it was completely different from what she had known before.
\nAt that time, the little girl believed that books were written by people who had been dead or they didn\u2019t exist in the real world. She couldn\u2019t even imagine there were people who made a living by writing stories.
\n\u201cWhen I was a child, I used to make things up just for fun. I didn\u2019t think then at all that I was going to end up being a writer,\u201d said Claire Fayers. Last year, she published her first book The Accidental Pirates: Voyage to Magical North<\/em>\u00a0and became a published author.<\/p>\n

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Perfect day for a spot of reading in the garden Evie spotted my copy #accidentalpirates<\/a> & couldn’t resist pic.twitter.com\/r7K5oi6RVY<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jo Clarke (@bookloverJo) 2016\u5e747\u670825\u65e5<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

10 years later, she was doing A levels, and still enjoying writing stories. She met a couple of good teachers and decided to show her piece. Claire said: \u201cThat was the first time I ever I showed my writing to somebody. I generally hid it away.\u201d She continued: \u201cThen a couple of good teachers read some of the things I wrote, I\u2019m sure they were not very good at all. But these teachers read them to encourage me and told me to keep going.\u201d
\nWhen she decided to study English at university, she was thinking about being a writer. \u201cI thought maybe I could do things like magazines, newspaper articles and features because I\u2019ve seen those sort of things, and I knew that people who did them are real people.\u201d
\nWhen she got her first book published last summer, she had already been freelance as a writer for more than 20 years. During the two decades, Claire constantly kept writing stories as a hobby.
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\u201cThe first thing I did was some huge fantasy novel, because I read Lord of the Rings and I really liked it. Then I thought I would write Lord of the Rings! I\u2019ve still got the copy but I won\u2019t show it to anyone.\u201d
\nAfter writing the huge fantasy, she wrote another fantasy book, which was for young adults. Although it unfortunately didn\u2019t get published, quite a few agents showed some interests and that encouraged her to write another one, The Accidental Pirates<\/em>.
\nShe explained how she could come up with the idea of the Accidental Pirates<\/em>: \u201cThe young adult book I\u2019ve written was very dark and very serious, I thought I want to write something for slightly younger children, and I want to write about something fun. Well, what\u2019s fun? I thought pirates are fun, sword fights, sea monsters, magic. So I just put everything together that I thought it\u2019d be fun to do.\u201d
\nLet me explain the outline of the story here. There are two main characters in the book; Brine Seaborne and Peter. Brine is a 12 year-old girl who has been a servant of a malicious magician Tallis Magus for 3 years after she was found in a rowing boat. Peter is an obnoxious apprentice of Magus and has dreamt of being a great magician someday.
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