Twenty year old author, Alex McCall, launches his new book “Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens” at the Kelvingrove Bandstand for Festival 2014. This is the first book Alex has ever published and despite being only twenty, McCall has aspirations to write more books for both children and teenagers.
McCall’s preferred target audience is teenagers and the location of this other story ideas are usually set in far off places, but for the Kelpie Awards he had to stick to certain guidelines. The guidelines included the story being aimed at 8-12 year olds, being set in Scotland, and it had to be 40,000-70,000 words long.
Alex won the Kelpie Awards in August 2013, but the book was published in February 2014, and despite being a relatively new author, he was delighted to be asked to be part of Festival 2014.
The Kelpie Awards are part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and has a grand prize of a published book and £2000.
McCall is currently studying Film Making and Screenwriting at University of the West of Scotland, and hopes to gain experience for writing in the future.
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