Alan McCluskey

• Stephanie Thwaites
• A story with a great twist. Strong adventure or fantasy stories – for readers aged 9/10+ or for young adults.

• Pippa Sandberg chewed the end of her HB pencil and wondered how she could change the world. She wasn’t so ambitious as to want to change the whole world, not yet, her immediate one would do for starters, and anyway, whatever she did would have to come from within the G.U.T.

• there's few, if any, major corporations constitutionally capable of getting a firmer grip by letting go.

• Vulnerable boys, not just sparkly ones, really do appeal.
• t your core audience will most likely be girls.

• a book culture that is increasingly author-driven" rather than one driven strictly by publishers or even necessarily books
• the digital commodification of authorship that takes place by way of community and conversation

• 99.99% of all epubs would be far better off with only the most basic HTML and maybe a few lines of CSS.
• You want interactivity in e-books? That’s not an e-book, that’s an app.
• You’re making a book, not a website. Please bear that in mind.

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• it is very likely that this learning, taking place at home, at the workplace or elsewhere, is a lot more important, relevant and significant than the kind of learning that occurs in formal settings.
• Formal learning is always organised and structured, and has learning objectives. From the learner’s standpoint, it is always intentional: i.e. the learner’s explicit objective is to gain knowledge, skills and/or competences.
• Informal learning is never organised, has no set objective in terms of learning outcomes and is never intentional from the learner’s standpoint. Often it is referred to as learning by experience or just as experience.
• Informal learning

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