Watch Taran Matharu talk video games and website book deals

Hello everyone, my name is Taran Matharu. I'm the author of the Summoner series. 

I'm so incredibly honoured to be joining BookTrust as their Writer in Residence. Over the next few months, I'm going to be sharing my thoughts on various topics, including why video games and reading don't need to be mutually exclusive. 

I'm a huge gamer and that's been a huge influence on my writing.

I'll also be talking about being a young writer, and how you don't need to be someone who's studied writing or someone who's much older and has a lot of experience to become a writer.

For example, I got my start on Wattpad, and that's a website where many, many people are writing at a young age – and teenagers have actually got huge book deals for sharing their work on there.

And that's the other thing I'll also be talking about: online writing, sharing your work with the world and reading being a social experience.