My Favourite Book Festival

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Book festivals come in all shapes, sizes and flavours but my favourite has to be the Chiswick Book Festival and it’s not just because it takes place right on my own doorstep. Now in its second year, the cosy, relaxed feel of the festival belies its astonishing...

Pure Poetry

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The following piece was written by my 8 year old daughter as a school assignment with the brief to understand and describe a familiar setting. While I’m not too sure that this is our everyday experience, the beauty of what she wrote completely blew me away. And...

Adapt Or Die

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There’s a thought-provoking piece over at the Bookseller blogs by Anthony Horowitz on the chill winds that are blowing through the worlds of publishing and television drama. As one traditionally feeds the other, this is what we might term a double dip for the...

Agent Evolution

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An interesting debate over at Digital Book World with Jason Allen Ashlock, the founder of the Movable Type Literary Group, arguing that agents need to evolve to meet the needs of today’s publishing market.  I couldn’t agree more and have waded in with my...

Kumari Prinzessin in New York

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This is the cover of the German edition of Kumari, Goddess of Gotham, which has just been published by Fischer Schatzinsel in Frankfurt. Like every author on the planet (and if they deny it they’re lying) I’ve checked on Amazon.de and it seems to be going...