Dan Mace, editor of The Gazette newspaper, interviews Shelagh Watkins, author of Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine.
June 21, 2006 (Press Release) --
Dan: Hi Shelagh, thank you for agreeing to the interview. Tell us a little about yourself.
Shelagh: Hi Dan, thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk to your readers. Well, I guess the first thing the readers would like to know is that I am from the UK and I was born in Lancashire.
After I left University, I moved to Scotland but I now live in South Wales close to the Gower Peninsula, which was designated the first area of outstanding natural beauty in Britain. The ideal place to inspire aspiring authors!
Dan: Sounds like a place I'd like to visit. That's an interesting spelling of your name. Is it pronounced the same as my wife's name, Sheila? Is that common in your area?
Shelagh: Shelagh is the Irish way of spelling your wife Sheila's name.
Dan: What book/books have you written?
Shelagh: My first published book, is "Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine" and I'm writing a sequel. "Mrs. Planemaker's Flying Carpet".
Dan: What are your books about?
Shelagh: "Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine" is set in a small town in Lancashire. It is about two ordinary children, Dell and Emmelisa Planemaker, whose father becomes ill and is forced to retire at the age of forty-three.
With too much time on his hands, Mr. Planemaker decides to use his son's computer to locate specialist model aircraft companies, because he wants to build something lasting for his children, but he dies before he completes the task.
Three years later, Emmelisa is seriously bullied at school by a group of school friends led by the notorious school bully, Mayja Troublemaker. Emmelisa becomes increasingly withdrawn and unhappy until she eventually seeks help and advice through the computer that her father had used to search the Internet in his quest to build a scaled, model airplane.
The computer introduces Dell and Emmelisa to an odd looking man, Mr. A. Leon Spaceman, who guides the two children to a special place, Hardwareland, where they train to become astronauts. After several weeks training they take on a tough mission in space: to follow their father's TRAIL OF LIGHT.
The story is about facing up to your enemies, creating your own "space" and learning how to turn your life around without looking back and staying on track so that you can fulfil your dreams. The novel tells a story and does not offer any advice, guidance or opinions. It allows readers to decide for themselves.
"Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine" was published by Publish America in 2005 and can be ordered in any bookstore or bought online from amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com and many more online bookstores. More information can be found on my web site: http://shelaghwatkins.co.uk
Dan: Do you have anything new in the works?
Shelagh: Yes. I am writing a sequel about Dell and Emmelisa going on a whirlwind tour around the world, but not in space, on a flying carpet! I have written five of eighteen chapters, so there is a long way to go yet! ###
Shelagh: Hi Dan, thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk to your readers. Well, I guess the first thing the readers would like to know is that I am from the UK and I was born in Lancashire.
After I left University, I moved to Scotland but I now live in South Wales close to the Gower Peninsula, which was designated the first area of outstanding natural beauty in Britain. The ideal place to inspire aspiring authors!
Dan: Sounds like a place I'd like to visit. That's an interesting spelling of your name. Is it pronounced the same as my wife's name, Sheila? Is that common in your area?
Shelagh: Shelagh is the Irish way of spelling your wife Sheila's name.
Dan: What book/books have you written?
Shelagh: My first published book, is "Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine" and I'm writing a sequel. "Mrs. Planemaker's Flying Carpet".
Dan: What are your books about?
Shelagh: "Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine" is set in a small town in Lancashire. It is about two ordinary children, Dell and Emmelisa Planemaker, whose father becomes ill and is forced to retire at the age of forty-three.
With too much time on his hands, Mr. Planemaker decides to use his son's computer to locate specialist model aircraft companies, because he wants to build something lasting for his children, but he dies before he completes the task.
Three years later, Emmelisa is seriously bullied at school by a group of school friends led by the notorious school bully, Mayja Troublemaker. Emmelisa becomes increasingly withdrawn and unhappy until she eventually seeks help and advice through the computer that her father had used to search the Internet in his quest to build a scaled, model airplane.
The computer introduces Dell and Emmelisa to an odd looking man, Mr. A. Leon Spaceman, who guides the two children to a special place, Hardwareland, where they train to become astronauts. After several weeks training they take on a tough mission in space: to follow their father's TRAIL OF LIGHT.
The story is about facing up to your enemies, creating your own "space" and learning how to turn your life around without looking back and staying on track so that you can fulfil your dreams. The novel tells a story and does not offer any advice, guidance or opinions. It allows readers to decide for themselves.
"Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine" was published by Publish America in 2005 and can be ordered in any bookstore or bought online from amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com and many more online bookstores. More information can be found on my web site: http://shelaghwatkins.co.uk
Dan: Do you have anything new in the works?
Shelagh: Yes. I am writing a sequel about Dell and Emmelisa going on a whirlwind tour around the world, but not in space, on a flying carpet! I have written five of eighteen chapters, so there is a long way to go yet! ###
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