Archive for May, 2009

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

A Taste of TIM! (and, um, me!)

If you’ve been following this blog you’ll have seen a lot of pics of me at my events. But if you’re curious about what I actually /sound/ like… well: It’s a clip of the talk I gave at The Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival, on April 25th, as recorded at excellent independent bookshop The Bookseller […]

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Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Chinjford. I mean: Chingford!

Here’s a quick pic from today’s events at South Chingford Library, where I was invited to do my thing as part of this year’s Waltham Forest Literature Festival. I did three sessions of readings and Q&A with Year 7 students from nearby Heathcote School. There were around fifteen students in each group – smaller audiences […]

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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

You’ve got to start somewhere

I’ve just embarrassed myself with this on Trapped By Monsters, so I figured I may as well do the same here, too! Following on from a post there by Ali Sparkes asking other TBM authors about our early writing efforts, here’s, um, this below…! It’s called THE HAUNTED CAVE. I found it in a cupboard […]

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Friday, May 15th, 2009

A Tale of Woe!

Check Trapped By Monsters for the sorry saga of awesome author Alexander Gordon Smith, and his doomed attempts to rescue us from captivity. 😀 ————————– Comments? Suggestions? Questions? Me and THE WEBSPHINX would love to hear from you! Drop us a line at the Tim, Defender of the Earth Guestbook for current or Tim stuff, […]

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Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Laughing, Lincoln

Here’s a great pic from one of the two talks I gave today at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, in Horncastle, near Lincoln, where I did my thing as part of the Lincoln Book Festival. I’m normally a bit cautious about showing young people’s faces in photos on this blog, which is the main reason why […]

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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Leicester, Loudly

Yesterday I did my stuff at Moat Community College, Leicester. Over four sessions I spoke to pretty much everyone in Moat’s Year 9. As you can maybe see from the pic above, the school’s lecture theatre, while very impressive, left me feeling a bit far away from the audience! But I did my best to […]

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Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Snee hee hee!

Here’s a nice follow-up to my visit to Hassenbrook School a couple of weeks back… It’s an article in local paper The Essex Enquirer. With a pic that, this time, even includes my head! 😀 Thanks to Ms Brockwell for passing this along – and congratulations again to Ellis on his phenomenal reading feat. ————————– […]

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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Get Your Wolf On

Here’s a treat for you. Check Trapped By Monsters for an exclusive brand new story by YA horror prodigy Dean Vincent Carter. Snort! Chew! RAAAAAGH! 😀 ————————– Comments? Suggestions? Questions? Me and THE WEBSPHINX would love to hear from you! Drop us a line at the Tim, Defender of the Earth Guestbook for current or […]

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Friday, May 1st, 2009

Zoosh!

Here’s a quick pic from today’s visit to Cornelius Vermuyden School, in Canvey Island, Essex. This was another cracking visit. Over three hour-long sessions (with something like ninety students per session) I spoke to what I think was most of the school’s Year 7 and Year 8 . They were terrific: attentive, enthusiastic, full of […]

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