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A new
website The Author Hotline will be launched on 4 March. See what
all your favourite
authors have to say about themselves and their work at www.authorhotline.com |
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Peter
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Peter Pan Week will soon
be here again: 26th to 30th April. It reaches its climax
on Friday 30th April with
Peter Pan Day and a brand new Record Attempt that will put
Peter into the Guinness Book of Records. With your help,
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Have fun on Peter Pan Day |
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Everyone knows that when
you put on dressing up clothes you become someone else.
School, colleges, offfices
and shops can all join in by - contact www.peterpanweek.com for
a 'Log Book' and everything you need to know - and raise
much needed money for Great Ormond Street Hospital. |
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Pan on the run |
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Pan needs YOU
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It's
a really important Peter Pan Week this year, because 2010 is the
150th birthday of J M Barrie. (Who says you can't still have a
birthday when you're dead?) So dress up as Peter Pan on Friday
30 April become a record breaker and give old Jim the birthday
present he would have liked best. |
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9th
May is the actual Barrie Birthday. He was born in Kirriemuir in
Scotland, and I've been invited to go up there and help mark the
occasion. I'll be signing books seated at the great man's very
own desk! What a thrill! |
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I'm going
up to the Norwegian Literature Festival 24-29 May. It will be held
in Lillehammer, where
the Winter Olympics were held in 1994. It's also near the place where
Peer Gynt is supposed to have lived. Now there's a story I've always
meant to retell...
Go to www.litteraturfestival.no if you want to see how seriously
they take their reading in Norway! |
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Jeg
skal være på Lillehammer
24. - 29. mai i forbindelse med Norsk litteraturfestival. Der skal
jeg foredra om "Peter Pan i Rødt" og mine andre
fortellinger, www.litteraturfestival.no Jeg
gleder meg veldig til å møte
noen av mine norske lesere. |
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An October launch date has
been set for my next novel. 'Pull Out All The Stops' (unless you
are in America, when it will take a bit longer). I had such amazing
fun writing it, I really hope someone else is going to enjoy it too.
It's a follow up to 'Stop The Train', and sees Cissy and Cookie meet
up once again with the Bright Lights Theatre Company, this time aboard
a derelict paddle steamer. Join them for a 'white water' ride down
the Missouri River. |
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The U S Edition
of The Death Defying Pepper Roux was launched, by Harper Collins,
on January
19 2010.
Following on the good reviews received in the British press, has
been 'Pepper' has already received four 'starred ' reviews in America.
See 'Book of the Moment ' for details. |
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Headline
Pictures have announced that they have renewed their option
to produce "Peter
Pan in Scarlet" in conjunction with the BBC and the UK Film
Council. Sadly no date set yet. |
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The
White Darkness has won the American
Library Association YALSA Michael L Printz Award for Excellence
in Teen Books 2008. |
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I
have decided that I must get back to the job I love and do best
- writing stories. So regretfully,
I shall not be doing many school visits during 2010. |
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