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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Last Seen In Newcastle
My thanks to EILEEN ARMSTRONG and everyone else I met there for a fantastic evening at the North East Teenage Book Awards last Friday. My fellow prisoner Tommy Donbavand has written a fine account of the nicer parts of the night, so hit the link to take a look. But… Sigh. If only the rest […]
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
A Day-Pass from Darkness
The good news, first. To my utter amazement and glee and delight The Black Tattoo has been shortlisted for another prize here in the UK, namely the North East Teenage Book Award. As you’ll see if you hit the link, the other titles in the running are: BROKEN SOUP, by Jenny Valentine ANGEL, by Cliff […]
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
A Monster Compromise?
Yes, me and seven other unlucky authors are still TRAPPED BY MONSTERS. But I’m doing my best to negotiate an early exit for us all, as you’ll see from the following post I just put up over there… I love writing about monsters. It’s what I do. And I’m sorry, I can’t change that no […]
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
GAH! I’ve been…
…TRAPPED BY MONSTERS! I’m posting this from a dark, dank, evil-smelling cavern where myself and seven other authors are currently being held prisoner, kidnapped by the very monsters upon whom we all depend for our storytelling livelihoods. Brutally, our guards only allow us access to the internet for a few minutes at a time(!!!) so […]
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Jack’s Stack
As my mate Simon J. said once as he fell off his chair, Happy New YeAAARGH! 😀 First up, here’s a link to a page where you can download the current issue of Teen Librarian Monthly, which features an interview with yours truly. It’s a pdf, not a big file, it’s free, and it’s a […]
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Lurking Monsters of the Festive Wossname
My brain has conked out for the holidays. I’ll be back in Jan, I swear, even if I have to feed electrodes up my nose and JOLT the porridge-like grey matter into life to do it (again ;p) Mean time, here are some FESTIVE MONSTERS. First up, by way of the ever-brilliant Boing Boing, check […]
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
IT’S OFFICIAL!
This is what the first lines of a film deal look like: Yep: I’ve been waiting to tell you about this for quite a long time(!) but now the deal is signed: Tim, Defender of the Earth has been optioned by Universal. As of November 20th 2008, producer Chris Meledandri and his team have begun […]
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Last Chance To See! (not really ;p)
Here are a couple of pics from this week’s events, which were my last for a while. This (below) is from Wood Green School, in Witney, Oxfordshire, which I visited on Tuesday. I gave talks to two excellent groups of students there, who asked all sorts of great questions. …And this (below) is from this […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
My first award – and my second!
I’m waving my arms about and grinning – yes, even more than usual – because last Friday I was presented with THIS: Yep, it’s an award! For one of my books! As voted for by young readers from Wigan! HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE! 😀 Ahem. ‘Scuse me, I’m rather excited. 😉 This […]
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Swindon Zing!
Hi. Just a brief post with a few quick pics from this…! Yep: for two days in a row this week I’ve been touring around schools as part of the Swindon Youth Festival of Literature. And IT WAS BRILLIANT! The above pic was taken at the end of the second of two excellent sessions at […]
