BarryHutchison

Found this on TheBookseller.com:

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Gordon Brown will contribute a story for children to a book coming from Scholastic in August. Wow! 366 will offer “mini stories from massive writers”, with 366 tales—one for each day of this leap year—told in just 366 words. Contributors include Terry Jones, Charlie Higson, Eve Ibbotson and Roddy Doyle, and £1 from each book (priced at £6.99) will go to a major children’s charity.

So not only is the Prime Minister of the country my – ahem – co-contributor, but so is Terry Jones, one of my all time heroes. I actually first discovered Terry through Erik the Viking (the book, not the movie) back when I was ten or eleven, and only learned of his Monty Python greatness a few years later. ‘Tis truly an honour to be in print alongside him.

Although obviously I’m still more excited about being in the same book as Tom from McFly …