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Weddings, Kisses and Shining Moments

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Alternative merchandise. More Well who would've thought the royal wedding would put me in such a good mood. Jolly good show to the br...

The Blue Peter Panel at the Oxford Literary Festival 2011

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Am I definitely famous now that I've got a photo with Barney Harwood of Blue Peter ? Our panel at the Oxford Literary Festival (fro...

Hope

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Keris's novel Jessie  ♥  NYC  is out in July 2011 I'd like to thank Keris Stanton , who upon seeing reports of the Japanese eart...

Psst! You guys are AWESOME!

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I didn't meet my first author until I was a grown-up on the brink of becoming an author myself.There were no book clubs where I could tr...

Grieving with Japan. And hoping.

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Browse and bid on Authors for Japan Haru no umi Hinemosu notari Notari kana   Buson The spring sea  All day long it rose and fell ...

The Last Time I Overthrew a Dictator

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This past week's extraordinary events in Egypt has given me a massive case of deja vu ... Twenty five years ago in my native Philipp...

New York! I wanna be a part of it but baby it's cold outside!

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TALL STORY is out in the US on the 8th of February! My UK copy (right) meets its American cousin! They're not as similar as they loo...

Seven Books from the Decade that Made Me an Author

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Dave Cousins Dave Cousins, over at the Fifteen Days Without a Head blog , is listing his best reads for 2010. It's a great list, do h...

Winners of Our Tall Story Blog Competition

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It's time to announce the winner of my blog competition which ended on the 15th.  I think I learned something about blog competitions . ...

The Kids Lit Quiz - a championship for the world's best readers

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Happy participants at the South England Kids Lit Quiz I first heard of the Kids Lit Quiz on Facebook when last year I noticed all my aut...

Why I Love Star Wars

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Hilarious video on the origins of Star Wars. If you're viewing this on facebook, you can see the video here 1977. I was fifteen and t...

Christmas Book Plate for Tall Story

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Creating downloads and fun marketing stuff for Tall Story has become an integral part of my procrastination regime. If you're planning...

Ten Things I Learned on the Tenth Year of SCBWI British Isles (Scoobeebee)

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This weekend we celebrated the tenth birthday of SCBWI British Isles – SCBWI stands for Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators...

I Was a Librarian's Pet and Other Stories

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Tall Story has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal - if you've never heard of it, this is awarded by children's librarians and i...

Thinking of Kareem Abdul Jabbar on Black History Month

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Rafe Bartholomew talking about the Filipino passion for basketball that inspired his book Pacific Rims Can't see the video? View it on...

Health and safety or clever comment? Ai Weiwei's sunflower seed debacle at the Tate Modern

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"Are you sure it's not deliberate?" That was my reaction when I heard that the spectacular sunflower seed installation by Ch...

Auto-tuning the news - how marvelous!

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My blogs gone quiet ... that's because I'm writing hard - gotta turn my new novel in before Christmas! But until I get back to ya, I...

Philippine hostage crisis: wisdom in a time of grieving

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here is so much pain and anger in Hong Kong and in the Philippines after the hostage crisis. I was moved by this message from a teenager who...

POSTCARD FROM MANILA: imagining a Philippines in which all children love to read

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With luminaries of the Philippine Board on Books for Young People on National Children's Book Day. Photo courtesy of Zarah Gagatiga ...