Caitlin Moran has posted a blog item on reading children’s fiction to her child and rediscovering some gems, particularly Enid Blyton. (I did once try to read Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit to Mia but being a cat she wanted to chew the book so that was the end of that.) I have to say I […]
Girls in young adult fantasy novels tend to fare rather poorly, especially in the light of Susan from the Chronicles of Narnia. When Aslan admits the Pevensies into paradise, Susan is barred because she has forgotten Narnia and is more interested in stockings and the real adult world, because she has dared to want […]
Interesting interview with Scott Westerfeld over on the Kaleb Nation blog, mainly about writing.
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Catherine Webb’s Horatio Lyle (Amazon) novels are a great mix of genres, mixing crime and fantasy.
She published her first book at the age of 14 but has changed direction slightly with this new series.
Why did you choose a mix of genres in the Horatio Lyle stories? How did you find balancing the genres?
I’ve […]
Steve Augarde has recently published Winter Wood (Amazon) which completes his wonderful pastoral trilogy set in England. He is also known as children’s illustrator, paper engineer and a semi-pro Jazz musician. He was kind enough to chat to me about the trilogy, the English landscape and the joys of not knowing how long tasks can […]
Mike Carey is a comics and book writer who has also dabbled in screenplays. I caught up with him at Fantasycon and we talked about his Felix Castor novels (Felix Castor volumes) and his comics, Lucifer(Lucifer volumes) and Crossing Midnight (Issue One pdf available here,Volume 1, Volume 2).
How have you found writing the Felix Castor […]
Scott Westerfeld and his wife, Justine Larbalestier, were interviewed for the Cult Pop show (he’s number 13 on the list) and discussed the emergence of Young Adult sf. The video is available through the site (though it appears you will need JavaScript enabled).
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Brian Selznick, whose The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Amazon) won the Caldecott Medal earlier this month, is that wonderful of beings: the slightly off-centre obsessed geek and it shows in his great novel. Hugo - an orphan, thief and clockmaker - lives in the train station in Paris in anonymity when he meets a mysterious […]
Just when I thought it might be safe, J K Rowling in an interview with Time magazine has not entirely ruled out book eight in the Harry Potter world but it will be at least ten years before she thinks about it properly. In the meantime, there is an adult novel and a “political fairy […]
The Guardian’s bookclub interviewed Philip Pullman last night and have podcast the result today. He talks about Milton, morality, plot and language.
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