Sometimes I don’t blog everything interesting that happens to me right away; I save it up for a rainy day. Back in Nov 2009 I was on BBC TV’s Click – a show devoted to all things techie and presented by a fab fellow geek girl, the multi-talented LJ Rich. I made a little video [...]
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Excellent news re Pottermore. Why should fans of a series be the only ones to play in the creative sandbox? Authors might want to noodle around there too. And it doesn’t have to detract from the creativity of fandom. Some fans enjoy defining a text by their own reading, to put it in the kind [...]
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A day does actually arrive when you find yourself typing the final words of your multi-volume young adult series. My final Joshua Files day didn’t have the intense drama of JKR finishing Harry Potter, naturally, because we can only imagine the pressure she must have been under. And there’s also the sheer levels of immersion [...]
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So we come to the final post of the Dark Parallel Reverse Diaries wherein by a time paradox I revisit the early days of the launch of the fourth Joshua book and jump back to weeks before all the last few entries. In fact in chronological order this post fits between Author Visits 2011. C’mon [...]
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Yeah! First time showing DARK PARALLEL in Australia, Melbourne to be precise, St John’s Primary School, Clifton Hill. My good pal, Professor Magda Plebanski (already known to this parish…) is a resident of those parts and kindly arranged for me to visit the school during my brief but lovely stay with Magda and her family. [...]
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Usually a diary is told in chronological order but I am suffering from something that I’m pretty sure Josh himself experiences: blog drift! The events of my life are moving so rapidly that I need a whole mess of catch-up to be able to document anything of interest! I say ‘events moving so rapidly’ but [...]
Read the whole item » 2 Comments »Here is the list of articles in the ZERO MOMENT blog tour which ran throughout May 2010, along with the kind blogs run by friends of mine who have kindly agreed to host a rant, ramble, book review or intelexshull think-piece. Z is for Zany Orange Puffles and social networking sites for children here at [...]
Read the whole item »If reading ‘The Joshua Files’ has made you curious about Mexico and its rich diversity of attractions; ancient ruins in the jungle, old colonial towns, turquoise beaches, then here’s the perfect trip for you, exclusively researched by me! Josh Garcia’s Mexico Photo on left shows the sleepy old town of Tlacotalpan on the River Papaloapan, [...]
Read the whole item »I’ve finally gotten around to editing some of the audio and video files I’ve had on the hard drive for months. There’s now a page of collected MG Harris interviews, audio and written, from BBC radio as well as a podcast, book blogs, writers’ blogs and The Oxford Times. It’s strange being interviewed. I’m clearly [...]
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