Archive | February, 2008

Yesterday’s shopping

27 February 2008

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Living in the middle of nowhere, it’s not often I get to go and browse round a bookshop. Yesterday, as luck would have it, I was near a Waterstones, and so I decided to pick up a couple of books for . . . ahem . . . research purposes. It turned out they had [...]

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Beastly! Tiger Terror

25 February 2008

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As mentioned earlier, Amazon now have my first Egmont book available to pre-order. It’s part of a series, which I was one of four writers on, and as a result isn’t under my name. It’s a big departure from my usual writing style, but the whole series is a great read, aimed at 7-9 year [...]

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Project IFR – Draft 2 complete!

25 February 2008

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On Friday, after a fortnight or so of rewriting, I managed to put the finishing touches to my rewrite of the manuscript we are for the moment calling Project IFR. The rewrite involved making some pretty sizeable changes, mostly because when I wrote draft one I had no idea where the rest of the series [...]

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The lady says…

18 February 2008

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..yes! On Friday I went to Glasgow to meet up with a potential agent. I can now reveal the agent was Kathryn Ross of Fraser Ross Associates, and that it all went rather well. It went so well, in fact, that they are now officially my agent (aside from the small matter of signing the [...]

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The first post

15 February 2008

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Okay, so how do I start? I suppose I could start by introducing myself as Barry Hutchison, an author who lives in the Highlands of Scotland, and whose first two children’s books are about to be released by Egmont. But no, too predictable. Maybe I could start by telling you about my fantastic family, and [...]

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