My Day with Prince Caspian

I’m not suggesting that you believe I spent the day with a fantasy prince, no, I’m not that far gone. Besides, I think he may have been busy with Queen Susan come the evening (natch, more on that later). The title of today’s blog refers to the day I spent with the book Prince Caspian [...]

Bizarro Conversation No.1

[in the car on the way home from choir practice]
J: …because you’re going to be a pop star when you grow up and earn lots of money.
B: A rock star you mean.
J: woops, sorry. Cardinal sin, obvs.
A: Thought you were going to be a marine biologist?
B: Yes but I’ll be a rock star first and [...]

Zausted

pff too tired to try and spell. Thank gods for scheduling or Pop&Crisps would have fallen over this week. And now is the time I really need it to zing because I am drumming up punters. Have written two articles about it and another article about Silence. And in between that have been rushing to [...]

The SuperLambBanana and variations thereof

Watching the news over breakfast yesterday morning, the presenter announced that visitors to Liverpool this summer would meet the SuperLambBananas. The boy’s ears perked up and his usual moaning about the total lack of Spongebob disappeared as he became suddenly interested in the news. Apparently the SuperLambBanana was invented by a Japanese artist Taro Chiezo, as [...]

SHORTLISTED!!!!

SHOUTING IN CAPSLOCK!!!
SO EXCITED!!
CAN’T SPEAK!
*lets email speak for her*
LUKE BITMEAD MEMORIAL FUND
Josie Henley-Einion
13th June 2008
Dear Josie,
We are delighted to inform you that your name has been added to the shortlist for the first Luke Bitmead Writers Bursary. Congratulations!
Thank you so much for giving your time to share both your personal story and your writings with [...]

More Promotional Stuff

I pause in my proofreading of the draft layout of Silence to write this. Tom complained about the number of passages in italic, and I saw his point after 480 pages (though Mark informed me the other night at his book signing that Tom always complains about the italics). Note to self: use less italics [...]