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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Love and Tentacles
I am fully immersed in Phase Three. Even after I hand in the first draft next week I’m probably going to have to go and stick my head in a bucket of something cool and wet for what may, I feel, be quite a long time. So for now, in lieu of proper bloggage from […]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Arm-Waving in South Ayrshire
So, now I have returned from my second excursion to Scotland as a published author! It was an absolute delight from start to finish – especially yesterday, when I was taken out by the Scottish Book Trust to visit two schools as part of their Outreach programme. In fact, this post (or a link to […]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Fun With Computers
I’m writing this on my laptop. The ornery contraption seems to be behaving as of this moment, but given that today it crashed spectacularly on what was my first – and probably /last/ – attempt to use it in front of an audience as part of one of my talks (ho, hum), maybe I’d better […]
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
‘Ear’ Yer Go (;p)
Today’s a public holiday here in the UK. Me, I’m just packing up my trappings before setting out on an overnight train to Edinburgh, Scotland for two days of events to do with The RBS Schools Programme of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. HURRAH! 🙂 -Ahem! Yes, as you can probably tell I’m rather excited. […]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
The Unspeakable Horror
At something like 9pm last night I wrote the last sentence of my new book. Or, heh, at least I wrote the current last sentence, as you never know how these things are finally going to end up. But yes, I’m getting there with Phase Three. …Floof. My brain has turned to porridge, so since […]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Thank You
Today I’m taking a little bit of time out from writing Phase Three to write this instead. Partly that’s because this blog is (gulp!) a month out of date, and partly because… Yes! I’m not into cake – strange I know, but true – so the above is exactly what it looks like: my lovely […]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Going underground…
For the next couple of months my life is mostly going to look like this: The end of the school year means no more visits for a while – which is good timing for me, because in September (eek!) I’m due to hand in the first draft of Phase Three of my Sinister Masterplan to […]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Independents’ Day! Some Q&A. And Rays…
Oof. Sorry for the terrible pun, but the opportunity was just too good to resist. You see, while my US readers are off enjoying what I hope is a very fine holiday weekend :), over here in the UK the book trade is currently celebrating a rather wonderful new initiative… This week(1st-8th July) is Independent […]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Listen With Monster
Hey there. I’m currently back in full Deep Dive Mode for some serious heavy work on Phase Three. But before I go all intermittent on you while I’m away in my brain (writing my new book, in other words!) today I surfaced briefly for what was my last school visit of this academic year. It […]
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Awards-erama!
Floof. I feel like I’m still recovering. What a day it was! First up was my second (see Monday’s post) Carnegie Shadowing event of the week, which took place at City University in the London borough of Islington. Schools from all around the area sent teams of keen young readers to make presentations about the […]
