My new book, Code Name Verity, is out today in North America. It's been out in the UK since February, so this is the next big push! I'm having a virtual launch party and giveaway on my blog if you feel like stopping by!

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I've just decided to delete one of my posts here because it's started attracting so many spam comments in Russian. I *may* eventually be forced to leave LiveJournal as a result of spam comments in Russian -- they seem to be getting harder and harder both to detect and to delete! grrr. Is it just me?

 SUNDAY, AUGUST 02, 2009

Arvon's Writing for Teenagers Course with Malorie and Melvin


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I am cross-posting this from my Notes from the Slushpile blog!

It's been an eventful last few days and I thought I'd blog about it before it was too late as my life is currently feeling like a 33 rpm record running on 45 or was it a 45 running on 33 (remember those? LPs? Record players? If not, then I'm pleased to meet you ... I'm rather keen on ( Read more... )

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This is the final part of School Librarians Revealed, a report on the joint SCBWI-BI Central East Region/Ipswich Children’s Book Group meeting with two Suffolk school librarians: Jayne Gould and Alison Baker.

Authors are Real People: The Secrets of School Visits

Children really love to have authors come into school and often feel that they are ( Read more... )

I've been blogging about the London Book Fair on Notes from the Slushpile!

Here's what I've blogged so far:

Patrick Ness of the Knife of Never Letting Go

The Espresso Book Machine

Posters of Our Time

The Digital Dilemma

I've still got a lot more to report so do check back!

This is part three of School Librarians Revealed, a report on the joint SCBWI-BI Central East Region/Ipswich Children's Book Group meeting with two Suffolk school librarians: Jayne Gould and Alison Baker.

What Librarians Want: Gaps on the Shelves

We talked with our panel and audience about what they felt the gaps on their shelves were and the books ( Read more... )

This is part two of School Librarians Revealed, a report on the joint SCBWI-BI Central East Region/Ipswich Children's Book Group meeting with two Suffolk school librarians: Jayne Gould and Alison Baker.

The Book Keepers: The Role of Librarians

"The only way you can learn to make choices is by making choices," says Jayne Gould, “and part of that ( Read more... )

On 21 January 2009, SCBWI Central East Region and the Ipswich Children's Book Group held a joint meeting at Broke Hall School (Ipswich) to hear from two Suffolk schools librarians. Jayne Gould and Alison Baker were kind enough to come and talk about themselves and their libraries.

A Tale of Two Libraries: how different school libraries work

The Stoke ( Read more... )