It is just a Word

My name is Natasha Whearity. I'm a self-published author, a tea, Shakespeare and Harry Potter enthusiast and I work as a Marketing Assistant at Hachette Children's Group; I previously worked as Publicity Assistant at Hodder & Stoughton and a Sales Support Assistant at Little, Brown Book Group. 

At the age of seventeen I was published in a short fiction collection alongside sci-fi legends Harlan Ellison (creator of The Terminator) and Alan Dean Foster (wrote the novelisation of Star Wars: The Force Awakens) which put me on the map as an emerging fiction writer. Since then I have published my own anthology of short fiction and poetry collaborating with other writers to raise money for Epilepsy Action UK. This anthology became a number one bestseller on Amazon and we raised a large sum of money for the charity. 

I graduated from the University of Birmingham with a First class degree in English with Creative Writing last year. As part of my degree I wrote a series of vignettes told from a young girls' perspective of the Ciudad Juarez Mexican drug cartels. 

Currently, I work full time at Hachette Children's but I am also working on a novalla titled Sweetheart, a fantasy novel / short story collection and a short story collection surrounding issues of mental health and OCD.

I wrote this blog in order to document my work and for people to get advice about writing and the world of publishing from someone who started from the bottom. It's not much, but it's a start and I think it looks pretty. 

If you'd like to find out more about me, follow me on Twitter @NatashaWhearity or Instagram: natashawhearity.