Career
Shearer was recognized as a television scenario writer at age 29 after having produced over 30 works. He was active as a writer for television, movies, theatre, and radio (including plays for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4) for 14 years, and then devoted himself to becoming a novelist. His maiden work was.
lieutenant was especially popular as a children"s adventure novel, and he was highly esteemed as an internationally bestselling novelist.
In Britain, he had a place among young adult genre reviews, but his work extended beyond into various genres. Shearer himself has said that he hates genre divisions (February 2, 2009, during a talk show in an Ikebukuro bookstore).
He also finds it appealing to continually challenge himself by creating new concepts rather than writing series novels. He writes quickly, having written "The Great Blue Yonder" within three weeks (mentioned on the same talk show).
He writes at a pace of two books a year, and has already had over 25 titles published.
His 2003 novel The Speed of the Dark was shortlisted for the Guardian Children"s Fiction Prize. The Greatest Store in the World was adapted into a television film by the British Broadcasting Corporation. His novel was adapted for a television series by the British Broadcasting Corporation, and later adapted into manga and anime under its Japanese title Chocolate Underground.