David Orme

David Orme

David Orme has written over 350 books, including children’s fiction and non-fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and books for teachers. Many of his recent titles have been aimed at reluctant and struggling readers, with a low level text but with content suitable for older children. His fiction has been translated into a number of languages. David’s book for teachers, Unlocking the Poet in Every Child, is his distillation of a lifetime working with children, first as a teacher then as a writing workshop leader in schools.

David was a teacher for seventeen years, before he turned to writing. He has written two fiction series for Ransom Publishing where the same characters appear in each book. Starchasers is about a team of people who fly around the Galaxy sorting out problems for people. Boffin Boy is a graphic novel series that now has 18 titles, all wonderfully illustrated by Peter Richardson. Usually superheroes are brilliant and brave, but in this book they are all totally useless! (Apart from Boffin Boy of course, and his dog, Katt. Yes, that is his name.)

What started David off being a writer? Well, reading, of course, especially science-fiction – he loved it! So if you want to be a writer, get reading!