October 2025 Q&A with Eileen O'Hely on 50 Ways To Die In Space

Welcome to Kelly's Writerly Q&A, a monthly blog series that is now a podcast!

Listen to my 13th episode where I chat to Eileen O'Hely, middle grade author of graphic novel 50 Ways To Die In Space. This book will appeal to fans of Aaron Blabey's, The Bad Guys.

We discuss:

• How Eileen worked humour into this book.
• Who is the ideal reader?
• The illustrator!
• Other 50 Ways To Die books that are in the works!
• How ideas come to Eileen.
• And the puppets Eileen made to level up her author talks!

Thank you for listening!

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Music credit to Ievgen Poltavskyi from Pixabay

Chapters

• 0:12 Meet Eileen O'Hely
• 1:26 How did you work humour into this book?
• 2:40 All about the illustrator
• 4:08 What is the perfect age to read this book?
• 6:00 More on the illustrations
• 8:28 What other 50 Ways To Die books are in the works?
• 9:56 What ways do ideas come to you?
• 12:37 What fuelled you to make your own puppets?
• 15:08 How do you get the hard things done?
• 16:51 Kids are so lucky to meet your puppets at your author events!
• 18:26 Thank you for listening
• 18:42 Join Write Till Christmas 2025!