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Posted on May 29, 2009 - by MG

MG - highlights from Hay-on-Wye 2009

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Spent the latter half of this week at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival, the UK’s biggest celebration of books.
Highlights:
1. Lovely as ever to meet readers young and old, and to interest new people to the world of Joshua. I had to rush the signing slightly because pretty much everyone wanted to see Anthony Horowitz next. One [...]

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Posted on June 21, 2009 - by MG

Starting something new (part 2): the voice

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For those of you who are also writers, here’s another of my very occasional posts about writing.
(If I weren’t so lazy about editing videos you’d be having an author visit update about me trip to Scotland, complete with a video of my publicist Alex and I sampling awesome tearooms and sweetie shops. This will happen [...]

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Posted on June 7, 2009 - by MG

MG and the Twitter posse at the Guillermo del Toro signing

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My turn to tell this oft-told story…a bunch of Twitter-aquainted folk got together to collectively fangirl/boy the superstar Mexican movie director, Guillermo del Toro of Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy fame. His new book, part 1 of a vampire thriller series title ‘The Strain’, was launched and we just HAD to have a signed copy.
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Posted on May 22, 2009 - by MG

A Writer’s Potpourri* (inc Leeds Book Award 2009 update)

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As you know, Bob, the blog is commonly used as a vent for the author’s random experiences and emotions.
I’ve been feeling the need for a bit of spillage so here goes. But concise, like. Bullet point-style:

Went up to Leeds where Invisible City had been shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award. There were some totally fab [...]

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I am blogging this lying in bed and typing on my BlackBerry, for the simple reason that I can’t face another minute at my computer which is anyway turned off.
The photo is of some frozen daiquiris at the bar at Bali’s Grand Hyatt Nusa Dua. I have been [...]

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Starting something new (part 2): the voice

For those of you who are also writers, here’s another of my very occasional posts about writing.
(If I weren’t so lazy about editing videos you’d be having an author visit update about me trip to Scotland, complete with a video of my publicist Alex and I sampling awesome tearooms and sweetie shops. This will happen [...]

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