BarryHutchison

Further confusion

After finding a comment from children’s author Philip Ardagh on one of my earlier posts, I popped by his site to take a look.  Not literally, obviously.  I don’t live inside the internet, despite what my immediate family may suspect.  For those of you who don’t know, Philip is the author of – among others – [...]

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Just one last thing …

I feel like Columbo with that title up there.  But without the crumpled overcoat, obviously.  Or the skelly eyes. Anyway, the point of the post is that I got the proof through of my Wow! 366 story from Scholastic today.  Everything seemed okay, aside from a glaring error in the spelling of my name, which [...]

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More news on Wow! 366

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 [...]

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Wow! 366

It’s late. I really should be in bed. But I’ve just discovered this on Amazon: This is the book I contributed a short story to recently, as some of you may recall. It’s published by Scholastic and is supporting the NSPCC. I am amazed to discover my story is in a book alongside tales from [...]

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