Scream Street Meets Astrosaurs
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Thanks to Tony and all the staff at Pritchard’s Bookshop in Formby for a wonderful – if incredibly busy – day today!
We started with a visit to Linaker Primary School in Southport where I created some creepy chaos with my Vampires vs Werewolves Game Show before signing books for an hour.
Then it was a dash back to Formby to meet up with Astrosaurs and Cows in Action author, Steve Cole for his event…
…followed by an open-air signing back at the shop…
…where we were joined by my pal and future Scream Street character, Spider, and his utterly brilliant skateboard…
and Mortlock author, Jon Mayhew.
What a day – and I’m back at Pritchard’s again next Thursday!
Tommy
Aaaargh!
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They’re at it again!
18 months after myself and seven other children’s authors were taken hostage by terrifying monsters – they’re making some of us perform for their entertainment once more. Mark Robson, Sam Enthoven, Ali Sparkes and I will be marched from our dark, damp caves next weekend and taken to Lincoln, where we will be forced to humiliate ourselves in front of an audience at the Lincoln Book Festival on Sunday 16th May.
Sadly, embarrassing authors isn’t enough for these heartless beasts for – at the end of the event – the audience will be made to vote to decide which one of us will be dragged back to the caves and EATEN!
So please, please come along if you can and vote for one of the other authors. Sam looks quite tasty, and Ali’s had enough luck lately, what with winning the Blue Peter Children’s Book Prize and all. I can’t go through a monster’s digestive system again.
I just can’t!
Return To Seven Stories
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Thanks to everyone at Seven Stories for a wonderful time today – it was like coming home again! For those who don’t know, I spent a year as writer-in-residence at the UK’s only centre for children’s books, and I can’t have done that bad a job as I’m occasionally asked back!
This visit was to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of my publisher, Walker Books – and I bumped into another familiar face from the company there… the Walker Bear…
It’s Great Up North!
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I’ve just spent two wonderful days running events at the Northern Children’s Book Festival – first in Stockton, and then in Thorntree. Thanks to everyone involved (especially Karen and Michelle) for ensuring I had just a wonderful a time as the kids!
Here’s to more fun at NCBF next year…
Tommy