THE MAGIC OF WATCHING MY SISTERS COME ALIVE ON FILM

Aug 16, 2018

THE MAGIC OF WATCHING MY SISTERS COME ALIVE ON FILM

Her books are based on her own magical East Anglian childhood. Now Sheridan Winn is watching them come to life on a film set

Sheridan Winn’s Sprite Sisters stories are set in Norfolk, hugely popular in Germany and about to be made into a film distributed by Disney.

Sheridan, of Bergh Apton, near Loddon, has written seven Sprite Sisters books, which have struck a particular chord with little girls in Germany, selling more than half a million copies. READ THE FULL STORY ON EDP24

SPRITE MAGIC – NATIONAL CENTRE FOR WRITING

Aug 8, 2018

SPRITE MAGIC – NATIONAL CENTRE FOR WRITING

Nine words. That’s all I wrote in my diary at 1.30am on 21st January 2007.

Four girls with magic power. East. South. West. North.

The following morning, I realised this was the idea I had been waiting for. Within a matter of minutes, I’d got the title – The Sprite Sisters – and the world, the old, rambling house where I’d grown up in Norfolk. I had my characters, Flame, Marina, Ash and Ariel, with their magic powers of Fire, Water, Earth & Air. If they argued their power would weaken, but if they worked together their magic was strong and they could protect Sprite Towers. The underlying message was that everything has to come back to the balance. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON NATIONALCENTREFORWRITING.ORG.UK