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Tall Story out June 2010
Undiscovered Voices. Winner 2008

NEWS

Mon

15

Feb

2010

Nest School blogs about my visit!

A school that blogs? How fabulous!

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Sat

06

Feb

2010

Candy at the Nest School: Where do stories come from? 10 Feb 2010

An interactive talk about the magic of Story and how you can find Story in anything. You just have to look. There will be storytelling! And drawing!

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Fri

05

Feb

2010

Suffering in Translation: A Filipino Author's Writing Journey 19 Feb 2010

I'll be giving a talk at my alma mater Ateneo de Manila University. I will look back on a writing journey that spanned a revolution and lots of laundry and rejection. 

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Sat

30

Jan

2010

My Michael Jackson video makes it to British Film Institute top online videos for 2009

A critic and curator poll for the British Film Institute picked my video Bob Fosse Michael Jackson Pas de Deux as one of the top online videos of 2009. View the article here.

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Wed

20

Jan

2010

Random House offers me up as dinner to the Book Witch

We had pasta! And gossip, lots of it.

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Fri

01

Jan

2009

Coverage from the Philippine Daily Inquirer, where I used to work

I was a reporter on the Inquirer's first incarnation as a weekly tabloid, and later a desk editor when it became a daily.

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Fri

06

Nov

2009

Filipina author scores worldwide deal with UK publishing giant but hands RP rights to Filipino publisher

Former Inquirer journalist Candy Quimpo Gourlay this week sold her novel TALL STORY to the Random House imprint David Fickling Books but reserved Philippine publication rights for Cacho publishing in the Philippines.

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Fri

06

Nov

2009

Publishing giant acquires giant novel

David Fickling Books is enormously proud to announce the acquisition of a new stand-(tall)-alone novel, TALL STORY!

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