{"id":644,"date":"2009-06-25T08:06:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=644"},"modified":"2009-06-25T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:53:10","slug":"braaaiiiiiiinnns-i-mean-books-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Braaaiiiiiiinnns -I mean, Books! Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pics from my talk at yesterday’s fabulous Leicester Teen Read Expo<\/strong><\/a> are… a bit worrying. Perhaps the combination of my recent Trapped By Monsters<\/strong><\/a> ordeal and the oncoming deadline for draft three of Phase Three<\/strong> is affecting me more than I thought.<\/p>\n

I remember an excellent session, full of great questions from a brilliant audience of keen readers. But these pictures seem to tell a different story. See what you think:<\/p>\n

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Here’s one of me at the start, waving Black Tat<\/strong><\/a> around in my usual enthusiastic manner. Business as normal – or as close to that as I ever seem to manage. But…<\/p>\n

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Here’s one of me apparently turning into some kind of shambling zombie, animated only by the raging hunger for moist, fresh brains. And here…<\/p>\n

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…I appear to be advancing on one of my hapless listeners, hands poised to grapple, maim and rend, with the demonic gleam of battle in my eyes!<\/p>\n

Erm… I’m just going to hope for the best(!) and offer an enormous and gleeful thank you<\/strong> to Ian and his team for having me along to what was a thoroughly brilliant day. Thanks, too, to awesome authors Bali Rai<\/strong><\/a>, Mike Carey<\/strong><\/a>, Ally Kennen<\/strong><\/a>, Keith Gray<\/strong><\/a> and Dan Tunstall<\/strong><\/a>, and to everyone else who was there<\/strong>. I returned home feeling inspired and invigorated. I just hope those feelings aren’t because I, y’know, ate somebody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pics from my talk at yesterday’s fabulous Leicester Teen Read Expo are… a bit worrying. Perhaps the combination of my recent Trapped By Monsters ordeal and the oncoming deadline for draft three of Phase Three is affecting me more than I thought. I remember an excellent session, full of great questions from a brilliant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}