EP433: Matt Brown — “The Worst Thing They’d Ever Read"

Matt Brown is the author of such wonderful children’s books at the Compton Valance series (about a boy who creates a time machine from a 13-week-old mouldy sandwich), the Dreary Inkling School books, and The Mab, a re-telling of the Mabinogi, which might be the oldest written stories in the history of Britain. Matt was also TV presenter, notably on Nickelodeon, and he’s a podcaster, but don’t hold that against him. He tells us what he’s discovered writing for children, why it takes a village to make a book, and why he keeps all his rejection letters...