30-minute publishing-related chat with A.M. Dassu

Win a 30-minute chat with author A.M. Dassu. Chat about anything related to publishing, submitting to agents, writing freelance, the publishing process, Boy, Everywhere, Fight Back or even World Book Day. A. M. Dassu will also look at a query letter within the 30 minutes if requested.

A.M. Dassu is the internationally acclaimed author of Boy, Everywhere, which has been listed for 25 awards, including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal, is the 2021 winner of The Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction and is also an American Library Association Notable Book. Her novel, Fight Back was Indie Book of the Month and also a Guardian Book of the Month upon publication this year. She is a director at Inclusive Minds, which is an organisation for people who are passionate about inclusion, diversity, equality and accessibility in children’s literature, and one of The National Literacy Trust’s Connecting Stories campaign authors, aiming to help inspire a love of reading and writing in children and young people. A.M. Dassu grew up in the Midlands dreaming of becoming a writer but studied economics instead and worked in marketing and project management before realising her dream. She writes books across a wide genre, including non-fiction, that challenge stereotypes, humanise the “other” and are full of empathy, hope and heart. Her work has been published by The Huffington Post, Times Educational Supplement, Scoop magazine, DK Books, Scholastic, Lee and Low, Old Barn Books, Hachette, Oxford University Press and Harper Collins. Her next book is a World Book Day novel and will be published in March 2023. You can also find her on Twitter @a_reflective or Instagram @a.m.dassu.

*OPEN TO UK, IRELAND AND INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS*