Writing for Teens

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Puffin has recently released a debut book for teens, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant, under the Penguin logo.   Although the book has been edited and marketed by the children’s department at Puffin, the Penguin logo allows it to be stocked in...

Trip’s Tweets

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So Trip Adler failed to show for his Litopia duel of words. Here’s something that may explain his reluctance .  Yes folks – it’s Trip’s own attempt at a book: http://www.lulu.com/content/506511   And in case you’re wondering just what...

April Fool

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April Fool’s Day – I love it! Although whoever decided to hold the G20 summit today was clearly having a laugh. In case you’re stuck for inspiration, I’ve decided to share a couple of my favourite pranks with you. They’re straight out of...

Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was Ten…

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Today is the tenth birthday of someone rather special (Happy Birthday Lucy!) and it got me thinking. When I was ten, I was living a carefree existence in Hong Kong, blissfully unaware of the convent boarding school that awaited me in rainy, grey England. I was a...

Credit Without the Crunch

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Here’s an organisation the fat cat bankers would have done well to emulate: www.kiva.org Kiva is one of those brilliant ideas the Internet should be about. It’s an organisation that works with microloan foundations to provide small amounts to entrepreneurs...