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Steven writes…

Hi Michelle,

My name is Steven Campbell and I'm a 25 year old aspiring author from Sydney, Australia. I've spent my life reading and writing stories and found your Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series when I was a teenager at high school. It got me through some tough times growing up rather poor and really helped improve and inspire some of my writing. So I wanted to take the time out to first and foremost thank you for your wonderful stories and let you know how much it meant to me.

I also would like to ask if you would perhaps be willing to read a manuscript I've been working on for the past year. I've always tried to attain the same sense of adventure and wonder in my writing that I found when I first read Wolf Brother and it would mean a lot to possibly have you let me know what you thought of my writing. However I understand if you are too busy and would just like the time to say thank you for the stories and I hope you never stop writing!

Feel free to contact me on the email above at any time, cheers!

Michelle Replies…

Dear Steven, I’m so glad that my stories helped you, and gave you inspiration. I’d also like to congratulate you on having the determination and staying power to work for a year on your own story.  That show that you really do want to write.  I’m afraid, however, that you guessed correctly, and I am too busy to take a look at what you’ve written.  You see, these days I have to divide my time between my own writing, and my elderly mother.  Nevertheless, I applaud you for asking (you don’t ask, you don’t get, as they say) – and I’d like to wish you every possible success with your writing.  The main thing is to keep going!

With best wishes, Michelle


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Wimbledon Book Festival

October 17, 2025
Festival patron and Sunday Times bestselling author Michelle Paver will talk about her latest supernatural fiction in this live recording with Always Take Notes, a podcast for and about writers and writing.

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October 20, 2025

Join Bridget Collins, Michelle Paver and Laura Sheperd-Robinson as they discuss their stories in a brand new collection of ghostly tales called The Witching Hour.

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Yeovil Literary Festival

October 25, 2025

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Successfully published as an adult author, the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness (“Wolf Brother”) were her first books for younger readers, followed by her brilliant 5-part series set in the bronze age, Gods and Warriors. On the adult side, her first ghost story, Dark Matter, was a UK bestseller and won massive praise from reviewers and readers alike, as did her second ghost story, Thin Air.

Oxford Literary Festival 2026

March 29, 2026

The Oxford Literary Festival takes place in venues across central Oxford, such as Blackwell's bookshop, the Bodleian Library, the Sheldonian Theatre, the Weston Library, and Oxford colleges such as Christ Church and Worcester College. The festival includes international authors, journalists, intellectuals, historians, and poets.