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How Books Start
Nikesh tells us how he gets ideas for books.
  1. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  2. Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
    01:23
    Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
  3. A proof reading
    05:09
    A proof reading
  4. How Henry happened
    05:58
    How Henry happened
  5. Ideas for Henry's stories
    07:00
    Ideas for Henry's stories
  6. Not a Horrid Henry book
    02:16
    Not a Horrid Henry book
  7. Tips for budding writers
    03:41
    Tips for budding writers
  8. Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:30
    Q&A with Francesca Simon
  9. More Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:21
    More Q&A with Francesca Simon
  10. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  11. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  12. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  13. Slugs and Brain Pâté
    11:48
    Slugs and Brain Pâté
  14. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  15. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  16. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  17. Konnie’s Favourite Character
    00:58
    Konnie’s Favourite Character
  18. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  19. The power of fantasy fiction
    04:28
    The power of fantasy fiction
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