Some book publicity events are planned months in advance…and some spring up on you all surprising, like. Last Thursday I’d planned to be in London to renew my Mexican passport at the embassy, after a bit of a saga as you might know if you follow me on Twitter. Suddenly a little new story broke, [...]
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If you haven’t finished school yet – hang in there! It can’t be much longer. I did my last school visits of 2009/10 academic year a week ago. Great to meet readers of all ages! Now I need to crack on and write for a bit… Here’s the summer Joshua Files news: 1. Mere DAYS [...]
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River Song, the Time Traveler’s Wife, Borges and The Joshua Files. Yeah that’s right. I can use all those things in a sentence. Because all four have used one very lovely device of the time-traveling story genre: Two time-traveling characters who meet up with each other across different time-streams. The earliest story that does this [...]
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On Crosby Beach Originally uploaded by mgharris Lovely day in Crosby with Tony Higginson, bookseller extraordinaire from Pritchards Formby. After visiting Merchant Taylor’s Boys and Sacred Heart schools and signing lots of books for Year 8 kids, Tony and I drove to the beach to see Anthony Gormley’s ‘iron man’ statues and grab an ice [...]
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At a story-building workshop I was running at Southend Girls High School recently, a student asked me if I believed that Stephenie Meyer really did write Twilight because of a dream of a sparkly vampire. I didn’t get to answer the question in depth because we were under pressure to finish the story before the [...]
Read the whole item » 1 Comment »Some book publicity events are planned months in advance…and some spring up on you all surprising, like. Last Thursday I’d planned to be in London to renew my Mexican passport at the embassy, after a bit of a saga as you might know if you follow me on Twitter. Suddenly a little new story broke, [...]
Read the whole item »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 [...]
Read the whole item »Those lucky Young Friends of the British Museum get the bonus treat of being allowed to attend up to 4 sleeppvers a year. Last weekend was a special Moctezuma-themed event, featuring storytelling about the Mexican Day of the Dead, warrior head-dress making, Mexican folklore from Mexicolore…and then some Mayan hieroglyph deciphering with me. Meanwhile publicist [...]
Read the whole item »Halloween at Disney’s Magic Kingdom Originally uploaded by mgharris Well it isn’t for the faint-hearted, tired or the Disney-phobe. We arrived yesterday at 9am and parked in the Pluto car park. When we left after midnight there were only 6 cars left of around 1000 spaces. Everyone else had wimped out! Ha, amateurs, to those [...]
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