Archive | May, 2009

Random Update Type Thing

27 May 2009

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It’s been over a week since I last posted anything on here, so I thought I’d better stick something up and quash rumours of my death before they have a chance to begin. There have been lots of little things happening over the past week, but none of them really worthy of a full blog [...]

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Photos of me in action

19 May 2009

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Further to this post about my recent visit to Moniack Mhor to talk to the winners of this year’s Pushkin Prizes, here are a couple of photos of me doing a reading from INVISIBLE FIENDS, and signing the proof copies that HarperCollins let me dish out to all the winners. I didn’t realise I had [...]

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The most irritating human alive?

10 May 2009

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Kyle made Fiona and me watch the Disney movie, Snow Buddies, today.  Not only did he make us watch the movie, but he made us watch the DVD extras, too.  DVD extras which included the music video below.  It took me about twenty seconds to decide that the boy (he is male, right?) singing the [...]

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The face in the attic

10 May 2009

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Yesterday, I realised I’m living inside a horror novel.  It’s not a pleasant discovery to make, let me tell you. It happened when Fiona ordered me to start shoving boxes of junk up into the attic of our new house.  The boxes of junk I put up came out of the attic of our old [...]

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Prizes and Awards

6 May 2009

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Don’t get excited by the title of this post – I haven’t won anything.  I did, however, get to spend this afternoon with a group of winners – namely the winners of the 2009 Pushkin Prizes, a writing competition held for Scottish and Russian secondary school pupils. Following a long drive along narrow roads in [...]

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