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US publication day for A Monster Calls

Yep, it's today.  A Monster Calls officially comes out in the US today.  Can't wait to hear what you think about it.

To mark pubication, the blog tour takes off in full force today, with appearances (by me!) on I Read Banned Books and Charlotte's Library and a review on A Rep Reading (by the ultra-awesome Teresa Kratvin).  Check 'em out!

Also, UK news in that I've just learned that A Monster Calls has been longlisted for the UKLA Book Award, along with some seriously heavy-hitting names.  A VERY strong list, lots of good titles in there to read.

Yet more soon!

A Monster Calls US blog tour begins

And yet another quick hit to say that to coincide with the US publication of A Monster Calls (tomorrow! Yep, tomorrow), I'm starting a blog tour today, with me on the blog of the estimable Monica Edinger.  She takes a very interesting approach.  Check it out!

Review of A Monster Calls in the Wall Street Journal

Another quick hit to say that A Monster Calls has its first big American newspaper review today in the Wall Street Journal.  It's a really good one, too, plus lots of love for Jim (he deserves every drop!).

American trailer for A Monster Calls

It's here, and I daresay, it's rather beautiful.  Check it out!

So much to come this week!

Yes, I know, nothing new here for almost two weeks!  I've been travelling, meeting a lot of fantastic people in Austria, Swizterland and Germany (where Sieben Minuten Nach Mitternacht just came out), and preparing for big ol' publication of A Monster Calls in America!  Which happens on Tuesday, so nearly there.  Can't wait to hear what you all think of it.

But there's SO MUCH to come, you won't believe your eyes, trust me, so more soon, and in the meantime, Knife of Never Letting Go just came out in Brazil!  It's called O Motivo, and I'd love to hear from more Brazilian readers.

Greetings to all the new commenters; I'm so sorry I can't respond to all of them (though I did pass on the lovely request from Jilleen), but I do read them!  More (much) soon.

More travels

Travelling, travelling, travelling, so there haven't been updates for a bit.  In fact, this is just to say that I'm back from a trip to Dublin for the very fun Mountains to Sea Festival, and off on Monday for a tour of Austria, Switzerland and Germany.  Details here, hope to meet a lot of German-speaking readers!

I'm afraid my trip to South Africa is no longer going to happen.  There was a whole lot of effort from a whole lot of people to make it work, but it just ended up being impossible this time (we really did try).  Which is a huge disappointment, but hopefully one day soon!

Greetings to the new commenters.  More soon...

German publication of A Monster Calls

The German version of A Monster Calls, called "Sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht" (Seven Minutes Past Midnight) is out today!  There's an adult version and one for young adults.  Check 'em out!

There's also a new German-language interview with me on lovelybooks.de, and don't forget I'll be touring Switzerland, Austria and Germany in a few weeks.  Details of that here.

So greetings to the new commenters and a very special greeting to all the German language readers.  See you soon.

German Tour (and a nifty Knife trailer)

I've finally got all the details for my tour of Germany, Switzerland and Austria starting 12 September.  I'll be in Vienna, Zurich, Berlin and Hamburg that week.  If you'd like to come and see me (which I hope you do), all details are on my events page.  Or you can just go here and put my name in "Stichwort" and up everything will come.  The events will be in English and German, with translators as needed, so everyone welcome!

Also saw this nifty trailer for Knife up on YouTube.  Not sure where it came from (other than UNC Chapel Hill), but it's rather good, I must say.

A Monster Calls things

The US publication of A Monster Calls is next month (27 Sept) and there's a really cool issue of Maximum Shelf dedicated to it.  Interviews with me, Jim and my editor, a review and other cool stuff.  Check it out.

The UK version of A Monster Calls has also just been shortlisted for some really cool design awards.  Nothing to do with me, all to do with the book's art director, Ben Norland, who deserves (if I may say so) every award he gets.  Nominated not just in the Best Children's Category for design, but Best Designed British Book, too.  Fingers crossed for Ben!

And the German publication of A Monster Calls ("Sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht") is next week!  And it's already got 39 reviews on amazon.de!  I'll be touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland the week of 12 September, so can't wait to meet some German fans.

Edinburgh, radio, review

Quick hit today as I'm about to leave for the Edinburgh Festival (you can still come see me today and tomorrow, details here).

I was on Radio 4 Extra's 4 O'Clock Show yesterday, talking about my "Inheritance Books".  Listen to iPlayer here for another six days. 

And I review Paulo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker (and have some thoughts on dystopias) in today's Guardian.

Hello to the new (and returning!) commenters, and now to catch mass transport to Scotland...