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New St. Paul signing (of interest to Suzanne Collins fans, too)

This was, for a moment, on the US schedule (below), but now it's definitely conformed.  I shall be signing books at the Red Balloon Bookshop on Grand Street in St Paul on Saturday, 2 October from 12-1pm.  Details here.  Even cooler, Suzanne Collins will there at 2pm the same day, so a big YA trilogy bonanza, if you want to come on down.

I've added it to my Events page along with the rest of my developing US schedule, so hopefully for to come.  It'd be great to see you if you're in Minnesota...

Coming to America

I'll be in America for a whirlwind  tour starting at the end of this month.  I'm afraid America is rather big, so I can't make it to all of it this trip, but here are a few of the public events that it'd be great to see you at if you're in the area.

MINNESOTA - The big thing I'm coming for is the brilliant Red Hot Rebel Read project at Champlin Park High School, just north of Minneapolis, where I'll be doing tons of events with the students there (2800 of them, all of whom are reading

Monsters paperback! And Swedish book of the month!

The Monsters of Men paperback comes out on 4 October in the UK.  Have you seen the cover?  The copper colour is actually copper foil, so it looks really cool as a physical object. 

Also four weeks and counting for the US release of Monsters!  That comes out 28 September, and I cannot WAIT to hear what you all think about it.

And meanwhile, the Swedish version of The Knife of Never Letting Go (called Tystnaden i bruset) is book of the month on Adlibris, their largest online book service.

Cool s...

Monsters (and Mockingjay) on Huffington Post

A quick Bank Holiday update (it's a holiday in England today, folks) to say that in the lead-up to the US release of Monsters of Men - now just a month away - there's a great article on the Huffington Post about Monsters and a little book you may have heard of called Mockingjay.  Really good stuff, and the writer is a great supporter of YA fiction, too.

Also, I think I have my first ever fan-generated site.  It's from France and by Ben, who you may have seen on the Comments page.  Check it...

The books to come

Well, I've had a little co-ordinated invasion, I think, on the Comments page, in the best possible sense.  Quite a few people, all at once, are clamouring for more Chaos Walking and asking about the books to come.  Yes, I'm talking about you, Karly and Tiffany and Karen and Madison and...  Same class, maybe?  Reading group?  Good stuff, very happy to hear from you.

What I can say about all that is this:  My next book, planned for May 2011 in the UK, is called A Monster Calls and you can find m...

Edinburgh wrap-up

I had a brilliant time at the Edinburgh Book Festival for the past couple days.  My Monsters of Men event was sold out, and I then had the longest signing queue of my life, which was brilliant!  I met tons of you, including a couple of excellent young writers.  The questions were great, the atmosphere really upbeat, I was very happy.  I think I even met FlossieTeacake who may have been disguising herself as "Rachael".

The Losing It school event with Keith Gray was the next day, and what could ...

Twitter questions, Edinburgh and Losing It trailer

Busy day.  First up, in anticipation of the US launch of Monsters of Men, my US publishers Candlewick are asking for questions for a Twitter interview to take place on 29 Sept.  So if you've got anything you'd like to ask, give it a try!

Don't forget, I'll be at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Sunday at 4.30pm.  Looking forward to meeting you, if you're up.

The very snazzy Losing It trailer is up.  Those who've read it will know which scenes are from my story. 

And a warm welcome to the new...

Swedish Kaos!

The Knife of Never Letting Go is officially out in Swedish!  It's called Tystnaden i bruset and the series is - rather awesomely, I think - called Kaostrilogin.  Pretty cool.  So, if you're Swedish, let me know what you think.

And a quick reminder I'm appearing at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Sunday.  Hope to see you there.

And welcome to a hoard of new commenters:  Ben, Emma, Dan, Brigid, Rudi, Hannah, Jess (who's the official 1000th comment, by the way!), Christina, Abdulkareem, Liana...

Chaos Walking - eBook and Kindle answers

Right!  There have been a lot of questions lately about eBook versions of Knife, Ask, and Monsters, particularly on the Kindle.  As in, where are they?

Well, you know all those different fonts I use throughout the books to demonstrate Noise and animal voices, etc?  It turns out, rather incredibly, that a number of eBook readers (including the Kindle) can't quite handle this just yet.  Yes, I know, amazing to me, too, but there you have it.

We're working very, very hard on solutions and...

August news

Well, there's not much, is there?  August being a very slow month for Europe.  I'm writing away, mostly, finishing up my next book A Monster Calls and already planning the one after that, which is tip-top secret but looks to be something delightfully evil.  I'll say no more, shhh...

A reminder, too, that I'm at the Edinburgh Festival on Sunday, 22 August at 4.30pm, so I hope to see some of you there.

And finally a welcome to all the new commenters:  Scott, Alex (it's not "blog", Alex, it's...