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I was off doing a bit of shopping today, and stopped off at the Fort Kinnaird branch of Waterstone’s, just outside Edinburgh. It’s a half Waterstone’s, half HMV branch, so I got to look at books and play with the X-Box Kinnect in the same visit. While in the bookshop side, my son, Kyle spotted this signed copy of Raggy Maggie on display. It was the only copy left in the store, from a bundle I signed just over a …

Well, maybe ‘master’ is a strong word, but I shall be imparting all my accumulated knowledge of writing horror stories at a FREE horror-writing workshop event in November, as part of the Lennoxlove Book Festival in East Lothian. The event takes place on Sunday, 21st November at 3:30pm, and numbers are limited, so if you want to find out how I create the stories in my Invisible Fiends series, book your place now. For more information, go to the festival …

Back in this post I mentioned Ryan, Julie and Rebecca, three fans of the Invisible Fiends series I met at the closing day of the Fife Children’s Book Festival. Knowing how cynical you all are, I’m fairly confident none of you believed me when I said I had fans, but now, thanks to their mum, Rona, I have proof! Check it out… Note that those aren’t tattoos on the girls’ faces. It’s facepaint. They’re not mental or anything. Look! Ryan …

This morning I jumped on a train (not literally, that would be dangerous) and zoomed over to Glasgow, where I met the lovely Kate Manning from HarperCollins Children’s Books. Kate had roped me into being guest speaker at a Waterstone’s staff training day, with the plan being that I would stand up and talk to 60 or so members of Waterstone’s staff, all of whom work in children’s departments. I was a bit unsure of what to say, so in …

Back in December 2008, I reached a whopping one hundred posts here on BarryHutchison.com. To celebrate, I posted a selection of random photographs I had stored on my mobile phone. You can see that post here. We’re not celebrating anything today (although, we will be celebrating something towards the end of next week…) but I thought I’d stick up a few more photos from my phone, so I can finally delete the bloody things off my memory card. So, here …