Cherith Baldry kicks off the newest Warriors series with the Fourth Apprentice I realise that you all know this already, but I’ve actually read it – at least in draft format. But I hadn’t seen the actual book with its beautiful cover (Wayne is yet again brilliant with the artwork) until today, when the postman brought [...]
Don’t be alarmed. I got tired of the pinkness. Comments, please? Now, The Book Thief. I finally finished it. OK I was skipping pages toward the end. It was brilliantly written and with such fine writing it must be hard for an editor to say “hmmm, you could maybe cut that bit…you’ve kinda made that point [...]
OK, the deadline’s been pushed back for OOTS3 so I won’t be starting till mid-sept; Vicky and Erica are fighting (most sweetly) over whether to call it Betrayal or Dark Betrayal. Meanwhile I’m lost in Twitter-world, up to my eye-balls in tweets, re-tweets and tweeple. Every other tweet that pops up links to a blog [...]
I’m reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman. It’s fabulous. (I’ve not seen the movie. I like to read the book first.) The thing that sets it apart from other books I’ve read is that I can sense his joy in writing it. It shines through. It feels like he’s having a fabulous time with his imagination. [...]
