Hi everyone!



Yet again I am seriously behind with my blog - really sorry. My hard disc crashed causing untold nuisance to my poor husband, who had to deal with it. Thought I'd lost all my emails - arrrrgh!



But didn't, hooray!



I've had such a busy time, what with World Book Day and trying to move my current novel on. I had a lovely day in Portsmouth, meeting lots of great kids. I went to a fabulous dinner in Birmingham to celebrate forty years of the Children's Federation of Books, along with Alan Ahlberg, Robert Swindells and Korky Paul.

In World Book Week, I shared a stage three times with Philip Ardagh, because we were teamed together for one of the World Book Day books. We did a great gig in a school organised by the Tales On Moon Lane bookshop, followed by an event at Waterstones in Piccadilly - and finally, we talked to nearly a thousand(!!) lovely children in the Rose Theatre in Kingston. Philip is tall and beardy and very funny. He had a poorly ankle but didn't complain much.

Our book - Pongwiffy and the Important Announcement/ The Great Pasta Disaster is selling nicely. Philip thinks his story is much better than mine and tells kids to just keep re-reading his. I hope you don't!

Next week I'm off to Shrewsbury to do a couple of events in schools. Then it's quiet for a bit, which is just as well as I really need to get this book finished - the dealine is perilously near.

I went to see Avatar and loved it. Oh - and the second book about Clover Twig is coming out any day now. It's called Cover Twig and the Perilous Path. I hope Clover fans enjoy it.

Lots of love 'til next time.

Kaye
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