June 2011
15 posts
Etonnant Voyageurs - Saint-Malo
Just back from a busy couple of days at this excellent festival in Brittany. I took a flight over on Saturday, landing at the tiny airport of Dinard, a few miles from St.-Malo. A vast book fair, with countless stalls, was laid out along the quayside just outside the great grey stone walls of the ancient port town. Here hundreds of authors and publishers hawked their wares all day before heading up...
May 2011
9 posts
Hay Festival
I had a great visit to the Hay-on-Wye Book Festival this weekend. Arrived late on Sunday and had a splendidly convivial evening with some of my fellow Random House authors, including Mini Grey, Candy Gourlay and the Etherington Brothers. Next morning, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, we all went to the festival itself, which was humming with activity despite the heavy rain. Lots of authors were...
London MCM ComicCon
I had a great trip to London’s Docklands yesterday for the MCM ComicCon. Andrew Donkin, Lee Sullivan and I were talking about the Amulet graphic novel. As we drew close to the convention centre, we began to see hundreds of amazing costumes - weird, beautiful and funny: the halls themselves were packed with thousands of fantasy and comic addicts celebrating their love of the genres. We did a...
A Busy Summer Ahead...
Sorry it’s been a while since the last post. There’s been lots going on - mainly me working on the beginnings of a new novel, which I think might become a series… though you can never tell until you get further in to the writing. At the moment there are many scattered fragments of story episodes in a red file on my desk, and each day I play about adding to one or the other, or...
April 2011
12 posts
Los Angeles Times Book Festival
I arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday, and last night attended the Ceremony for the L A Times Book Prizes 2010. The Ring of Solomon was up for the Young Adult Prize, but didn’t win (the award was taken by Megan Whalen Turner’s Consipracy of Kings). But it was a good evening spent milling about with lots of other authors who’d been clearly dragged through a shower, forcibly dressed...
