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Clarion West 2013 line-up

Wow. Apply now.

Tales to Terrify podcasts "The Goosle"

I neglected to blog about this when it happened back in July, but you can click over to Tales to Terrify and hear Ritchie Smith narrating my horrid Hansel and Gretel makeover "The Goosle". Mark Morris's "What Nature Abhors" is on the same podcast.

"The Goosle" itself starts at around 7:45.

Warning: explicit sex, general nastiness—just ask Dave how nasty. Or this listener: "Margo wins my award

Tempe/Phoenix appearances today and tomorrow

I'll be reading and signing at:

7pm tonight at Changing Hands, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, and at
6pm tomorrow night at Barnes & Noble Desert Ridge, 21001 N. Tatum Blvd, Phoenix

All welcome.

San Francisco appearances, today and Monday

I'll be reading and signing today at 2 pm at Barnes & Noble 6050 El Cerrito Plaza, El Cerrito.

On Monday evening at 7 pm I'll be appearing at Rakestraw Books 550 Hartz Avenue, Danville.

Come along, and bring anyone you know who needs to take a refreshing swim with some gorgeous selkies!

Seattle appearances, today and tomorrow

Here I am in Seattle. If you can, please come and hear me read and talk about (Carnegie longlisted and Publishers Weekly Best Book) The Brides of Rollrock Island, either:




tonight at 7 pm at Barnes & Noble 19401 Alderwood Mall Parkway, Lynwood, or
tomorrow at 4.30 pm at Seattle Public Library, Northeast Branch, 6801 35th Avenue Northeast.

Brides makes the PW Best Books list

The Brides of Rollrock Island has made the children's section of the Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2012 list. This is a wonderful antidote to the first rumblings of pre-book-tour stage fright. Seattle, are you ready for me?

West Coast Tour, November

I know, I haven't blogged much this past month. Mostly this was because of medical matters—nothing to be alarmed about, in the end, but it meant a bit of a hiatus in the writing-and-working life. I'm back at the dayjob now and trying to make up for lost time, which means the writing time is still limited.

However, I'll soon be talking a lot about writing and The Brides of Rollrock Island in

Me at Newgrange, with labels so that my tour guides don't...

Me at Newgrange, with labels so that my tour guides don't lose me.

Take a look at Stephen Ormsby's blog: He's conducting a series of interviews with authors, and his latest is with me.

Oh, and when I say:

Yes, I generally have a rough target of ten long-hand (A4) pages, when I’m at drafting stage.
that means about 3500 words.

Fredericksburg Academy comments

Hello to all the 9th-graders from Fredericksburg Academy who've been reading "Singing My Sister Down" in class and wondering and worrying about Ik and her family. I'm afraid I won't have time this year to go to your blogs and comment there, but here are a few remarks.

There are definitely clues in the story as to why Ikky is being executed; they're small, but they're there. It's a story you

Edinburgh Book Festival

I'm thrilled to be going to the Edinburgh Book Festival, where I'll be panelising with Melvin Burgess next Monday evening, and doing a solo talk about fantasy writing next Tuesday morning as part of the schools program.

As well, I'll be taking part in the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, where we'll drag out five Big Questions that were debated with some fire at the first EWWC in 1962, and