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Carnegie Longlist!

Hey, hey! The Rest of Us Just Live Here is on the brand-new Carnegie Longlist, along with friends, geniuses, and books new to me (always welcome). Have a read. Shortlist announced 15 March.

A Monster Calls movie teaser trailer!

Hey, world, how would you like to watch THE FIRST OFFICIAL TEASER TRAILER FOR THE MOVIE OF A MONSTER CALLS!!!!!!!!

I’ll be honest, when Liam says, “He called… for a *monster*…” I get all weepy inside.

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT THING!

Here to announce that I am the creator, sole writer & co-executive producer on a brand new, official Doctor Who spinoff series for television. It’s called Class, first season is eight episodes long, and it hits your screens (UK and North America) next fall. I KNOW!!

Pulling out of Cheltenham, sorry!

Hi, guys, I’m so sorry, but I have to pull out of the Cheltenham Festival on the weekend of 2 October. UGH! I hate cancelling events. I’m so sorry, I wouldn’t do it if it weren’t the very last resort. Please forgive me.

First real post! Fundraising amazement and US tour!

So I’ve finally figured out/had time to write a proper first post on here! They’ll come more often, I promise, but this month has been crazy.

First, if you’ve been following my Twitter feed, you know all about the Save The Children fundraiser, so I won’t put it all here except to say that, in a week, we’ve raised over $1 million. Which is beyond belief. Thank you all SO MUCH!

Second, I’ve added in my US tour which starts next month! Check the Event pages for more details. Come see me if you’r...

Welcome to my new website!

Hello again! The lovely folks at Walker – my stupendous UK publisher – have redone my webpage! Innit nifty? All kinds of stuff here for you to go looking for, including videos, me *cough*, blogging *cough*, lots of writing, and every event on the calendar. Keep checking back, it updates regularly. Subscribe to things! Follow me on things! Eat enough vegetables and iron! Hug your friends and tell them what they mean to you as often as you can without it seeming weird!

First up, I’ve got a new...

Writing MasterClass I did for TV

I’m still mostly on hiatus from this site until middle of next year (when I get a revamp!) but interrupting that rest to post the video of thatWriting MasterClassI did forSky Arts Television. It’s here. I’m in purple! And I look like I’ve got a giant head. But if you can ignore all that, it’s writing stuff that works for me. Might work for you, might not, but have a look.

And again, in the meantime, I post far more frequently to my Twitter (@patrick_ness) andTumblr. See you there!

Comments trouble (and where to find me)

Right, so, I returned to the Comments pages this morning so that I could delete all the spam and put up the nice messages you people leave me.  Usually, there's one or two hundred spam comments, which I can only delete a certain number at a time.  It's tedious, but I do it, because it's great to find your comments hidden there.

This morning, there were 24,000 spam comments.  So 1) my spam filter is just shit and 2) I'm just never going to be able to delete that many to find your comments, I'm so sorry.

I've been talking with my publishers and there may be some very exciting things in the work for this page, but in the meantime, I'm going to be concentrating on Twitter (I'm @Patrick_Ness) and Tumblr, so please stop by there and say hi!  I've also got a publisher run Facebook page, too, so lots of places to find me out.

There are lots of exciting things to come in the next 12 months, so stay tuned! (and come find me on the interwebs)

Book Blogger UKYA Awards

I won a whole bunch of Book Blogger UKYA Awards today, which is so cool!  Book bloggers got together and set up categories and made nominees, then people voted on the winners.  I got Best First Line (though not for Knife, controversy), Best LGBT for More Than This and Best SciFi/Fantasy for Knife.  I also got Best Social Author Online, but wasn't even nominated for Best Social Author Offline.  Which is sadly probably accurate.

This past weekend, I was on set for the start of location filming for A Monster Calls.  I can't wait for you all to see it!

Greetings to the new commenters. More soon!

Hmm, what to do with this website, eh?

So I haven't updated here in a while - because not a lot's been going on that I can talk about (there's been LOTS that I can't, but...).  I've been wondering what the best use of this is.  It works great when I'm on tour and I can tell people where I am; it's also lovely to get comments.  I'll definitely keep it, but I'll be honest, I put most of my goofy, fun stuff on Twitter these days (so definitely follow me there @Patrick_Ness) and have a tumblr (that I haven't updated in a while either, but I WILL!).  So I'm all over the place, if not always here.

I do read all your comments.  Just a few things.  Best way to contact me for events is from the Contacts page of this site (I get quite a few; they need to go centrally or I'd go quite mad).  Also, I regret that I can't help you out on your school assignments.  I'm so sorry, but again, there's just too many.  I'd love to, but I barely have enough time to finish my own work. I'm sure you know the feeling!

Anyway, there's news coming (and some that could be ridiculously exciting, but never count your chickens...), I'll keep updating here, but do check me out on the other places, too!