Archive for January, 2009

Ooo, ooo, pick me, pick me.

Posted: 28th January 2009 by admin in Uncategorized
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Needy. That’s what it is. It reminds me of Wednesday afternoons on the school playing field, standing in a group, trying hard not to shiver as the cold wind blew in over the muddy pitch and whistled around your bare legs, waiting for the ‘captains’ to choose their teams. You’d jiggle from foot-to-foot, arms tightly [...]

Keep on keeping on

Posted: 26th January 2009 by admin in agents, Getting published, rejection letters, submissions and rejections, Thoughts on Writing, Writing
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This morning I received a really nice email from another writer who seems to be in the hideous maelstrom that is the submission/rejection process. Now, I am the luckiest writer alive: my first book (the first thing that I’ve ever really written) gets taken up by a major publisher and is now on the shelves [...]

Hey, I made book trailer.

Posted: 22nd January 2009 by admin in Uncategorized
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"Er, is it okay to take pictures in here?"

Posted: 20th January 2009 by admin in book promotion, CHANGELING, Getting published, Steve Feasey, Waterstones Children's Book Prize
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The sales assistant looked at me as if I was dangerous. If she had a little red panic button just beneath the lip of the counter, I guessed that she was jabbing at it furiously right now, summoning the bookshop equivalent of ‘the heavies’ to her side. “You want to do what?” she asked me [...]

Cool Changeling Competition

Posted: 19th January 2009 by admin in book promotion, CHANGELING, competitions, monkeyslum, Steve Feasey
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Monkeyslum is a great website firmly aimed at a male teens and they are currently running a competition to win a Nintendo DS Lite and a signed copy of Changeling. You have to be registered to enter, but registration is free. http://monkeyslum.com/freestuff/competition.aspx?id=429 .

What a week

Posted: 16th January 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, Changeling reviews, Getting published, Steve Feasey, Waterstones Children's Book Prize
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It’s been a great few days. To have the news about the Waterstone’s Prize announced on Monday gave me such a great high that I was walking around all day grinning at strangers and humming tunelessly to myself (I must have been lucky not to have been sectioned!). In addition, I’ve had some really positive [...]

Changeling Review by Caroline McNulty (the book’s Waterstone’s ‘champion’)

Posted: 12th January 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, Changeling reviews, Macmillan, Steve Feasey, Waterstones Children's Book Prize
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As part of the shortlisting process, Waterstone’s ask somebody from within the company to champion each book. The lovely Caroline McNulty from the Putney branch speaks about Changeling on this video. SPOILER ALERT: Caroline DOES give away aspects of the plot that you may not wish to know.http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j3ZgPH-Bmtw

Changeling makes the shortlist for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize

Posted: 12th January 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, Steve Feasey, Waterstones Children's Book Prize, Writing
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The cat is finally out of the bag, and the news that I have had to sit on for some time now has been officially released: Changeling is one of eight books to have made it onto this year’s Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize shortlist. The other books on the list are: How Kirsty Jenkins Stole [...]

New website goes online today

Posted: 9th January 2009 by admin in book promotion, CHANGELING, Getting published, published, Steve Feasey, Thoughts on Writing, Writing
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My new website went online today.It’s an odd feeling seeing a website about, well, you on your own laptop. My daughter was excited about the whole thing but I was left squirming a bit, especially when she pulled up the publicity picture of me that I had to have taken before the launch of Changeling. [...]

Best and Worst New Year Ever

Posted: 3rd January 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, Getting published, published, Steve Feasey
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I was ill. Not just a bit snuffly-sniffly, but properly ill. And it came in two doses. On Dec 28th I was at a friends house for dinner. My friend, Graham, was sitting on my right and I had to turn to talk to him. At one point I turned to answer a question he’d [...]