The owner of a publishing house has said that seeing young aspiring authors work on books with characters that look like them has made her “really emotional” as the literature will serve as legacies which represent their “amazing” ideas.
Winsome Duncan, who is based in Bermondsey and is the owner of publishing house Peaches Publications Ltd, launched the ‘Look Like Me Book Challenge CIC’ in October 2019 – a charitable organisation which supports young people between the ages of seven and 18 across the UK with their literacy, creative writing, storytelling, peer to peer mentoring and social skills, as well as teaching them about the role diversity plays in the publishing industry.
