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Author · Storyteller
Freya Briggs
@freyabriggs
Independent writer working mainly in young adult, with an interest in craft, books and the practical side of publishing.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Freya Briggs writes across young adult and fantasy, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
A finished page should still feel alive.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Freya Briggs
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First draft
The Hollow Index
Seventeen-year-old Nessa Vale works in a Dublin archive where forgotten stories are literally kept alive in locked books. When pages begin disappearing from the city’s oldest records, she discovers the missing words are not lost at all, but being used to rewrite the lives of people who never asked to be part of a legend.
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Writing Craft
A character’s competence is often most convincing when the prose stops showing off about it.
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