16 – 18 March, 2011 Somerset Celebration of Literature Details to come. In the meantime, you can find more on the festival by clicking here … . 27 – 28 May, 2011 Reading Matters Conference Friday 27th: 10.15am Monsters Ink (Panel session with Ananda Braxton-Smith, Karen Healey and Brenton McKenna) Saturday 28th: 11.20am Dangerous Arrangements (Panel session with Jane Burke and Denis Wright)
Linds from Bibliophile Brouhaha is hosting a Raw Blue giveaway as an adjunct to an interview I did with her. This is very nice of her, as the book hasn’t been published over there, so if you’d like to enter, you can do so by clicking here … The comp closes on 12 January, 2011. Obviously, you don’t have to be from the
Linds at Bibliophile Brouhaha recently posted a review for Raw Blue that left me floored (in a really good way). You can check it out here … This review also clarified something for me; an issue that I have struggled with since the book was first published. That being – how much detail to go into when asked to describe the book. Linds
It’s been nominated in the 2010 Urban Fantasy Cover Art Awards, in the category of Best Foreign (non US) cover. Marina Messiha from Penguin is responsible for Saltwater Vampire‘s amazing cover. If you haven’t already seen it, check out the posts Between the Lines ran on Marina’s design process (Part I and Part II). So much work went into this cover design! (An
Excitement! Excitement! The program for the 2011 Reading Matters Conference has just been announced (to be held on the 27th and 28th of May). I’ll be appearing along with: Cassandra Clare (US) Markus Zusak Melina Marchetta Rebecca Stead (US) Karen Healey Ananda Braxton-Smith Ron Brooks Brenton McKenna Leanne Hall Lucy Christopher (tbc) Delphine de Vigan (tbc) (France) Kate Burridge Zoe Sadokierski Denis Wright
The lovely Megs from Literary Life hit me with a couple of questions recently. You can check out the answers here …
Look, I don’t often say much about writing, mainly because there’s already a lot of good stuff out there, said by much more experienced and far more articulate people than me. HOWEVER, I recently answered some questions from a charming guy called Broede Carmody (you can check out the full interview here …) And because this is National Novel Writing Month, and you
Four new and unique reviews have come in for Raw Blue. You can check them out by clicking on the following links: Musty Pages Irresistible Reads Literary Life Book Grotto Also, Stuart McCulloch has done an in-depth review of Saltwater Vampires, which also gives a good background to the events surrounding the shipwreck of the Batavia. You can read it here … And
The shortlists for the Inkys have been announced and Raw Blue made the list. Big congrats to the other authors. If you”re under 20, you can vote for any of these books here … THE GOLD INKY (for an Australian YA book) Liar by Justine Larbalestier Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey Raw Blue by Kirsty Eagar Swerve by Philip Gwynne Stolen
Mike Shuttleworth has re-posted an interview I did with him about Raw Blue not long after it was first published – it’s over at Read Alert, the Centre for Youth Literature‘s blog, and you can read it by clicking here … It’s a fairly in-depth interview, covering writing, surfing, the reasons for writing Raw Blue, and what working in a kitchen is really
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