Josh and the It Archives - Karen Tyrrell Author

Writing Workshops for Children

Writing workshops for children create superhero authors of the future!

KAPOW! Today, I was thrilled to present my 4th Superhero Writing Workshop for Brisbane City Libraries in the Summer Reading program.

Kids, supercharged with story writing powers, created original Superhero stories, jam-packed with SUPER powers, SUPER action and SUPER villains!

Kids created their own incredible […]

KIDS Review Jo-Kin Battles the It

A whole class of kids review Jo-Kin Battles the It as a fun-filled, fast-paced KIDS book. Teacher, Ms Batar presented Jo-Kin Battles the It as a read-aloud book to class 4B of Fairvale Public School, Sydney.

Jo-Kin Battles the It – front & back cover

I enjoy a special relationship with Fairvale Public […]

Jo-Kin Battles the It Blog Tour

SQUEE! Top authors support Jo-Kin Battles the It Blog Tour!

Top children’s authors will interview me and review *5 Star illustrated novel Jo-Kin Battles the It. Oct 19-30

Karen Tyrrell, author of Jo-Kin Battles the It celebrates the launch of JO-KIN on Amazon, Goodreads and bookshops via a world tour … Join the FUN and […]

Jo-Kin Battles the It Launches on Amazon

Jo-Kin Battles the It (Super Space Kids #1) by Karen Tyrrell launches World Wide on Amazon in print and eBook. HERE

JO-KIN is a hilarious space adventure empowering kids to live strong with resilience, teamwork and HUMOR.

Jo-Kin Battles the It (Super Space Kids #1)

What is it about?

Goof ball Josh […]

Radio Interview Jo-Kin Battles the It

A radio journalist will interview me on my hilarious children’s space adventure Jo-Kin Battles the It (Super Space Kids #1) and how writing it helped me survive tough times.

Jo-Kin Battles the It became a fun-like refuge as I simultaneously wrote a gut-wrenching memoir, Me and Her: A Memoir of Madness. I, Karen Tyrrell, teacher […]

Jo-Kin Battles the It Book Giveaway

Win a copy of Jo-Kin Battles the It via a Book Giveaway on Goodreads.

Jo-Kin Battles the It is a hilarious space adventure for kids, illustrated by Trevor Salter … Zooming to a galaxy near you on October 10.

Goof ball Josh Atkins aka Jo-Kin wins the Super Space Kid contest alongside nerdy Sam Jones […]

Jo-Kin Battles the It Book launch

BLAST off to the book launch of Jo-Kin Battles the It (Super Space Kids Series book #1) as children’s author Karen Tyrrell pilots her first exciting and hilarious space adventure.

Goof ball Josh Atkins aka Jo-Kin wins the Super Space Kid contest alongside super nerd Sam Jones aka Sam-Wich. Their first Super Space Kid mission […]

Book Cover Reveal

Blast off! I’m revealing the cover to my exciting NEW book, a humorous space adventure for kids.

Jo-Kin Battles the It by Karen Tyrrell … an illustrated novel

Book 1 of the Super Space Kids Series

Goof ball Josh Atkins aka Jo-Kin wins the Super Space Kid contest alongside nerdy Sam Jones aka Sam-Wich. […]

How to Pitch to Publishers

WOOHOO! I finally pitched three manuscripts to Publishers!

My name is Karen Tyrrell, award winning author of four resilience books for adults and children.

FIRST I developed my new stories to the highest possible publishing standard— written with passion and energy. I critiqued, rewrote, tweaked, formatted and had them professionally edited to perfection… over months […]

How to Write a KILLER Synopsis

How to Write a Killer synopsis www.karentyrrell.com

I set myself a gargantuan task of creating a KILLER synopsis for my humorous techno-fantasy novel for children: JOSH SUPER SPACE KID. I needed a kick-ass one pager to create buzz in the publishing world. I researched synopsis experts, scrambling through writing text books, to create […]