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***URGENT MESSAGE***

by Pseudonymous Bosch - 16 December 2011
TO: ALL BOOKED-UPPERS
FROM: PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH
SUBJECT: THE NAME OF THIS BOOK IS SECRET


There has been a terrible mistake!

Months ago, when my mind was occupied with...






The Kick Off!

by Dan Freedman - 18 November 2011
'I’m leaving my job,' I told Steven Gerrard. I’d just finished doing an interview with him in. This was some time in 2007.

 

'Why? Where are you...

Dragons Journey - From the first idea to the printed book

by Annie Kubler - 21 October 2011
I thought you might like to know how the book Don’t you Dare, Dragon! was created. It’s an interesting journey, probably more complicated than you think!

 

First...

A Recipe for Artichoke Hearts

by Sita Brahmachari - 12 October 2011
Recipe:
1 inspiring woman – Nana Josie 1 wonderful granddaughter – the shy, arty Mira Levenson 1 family in chaos 1 writing group run by the eccentric Pat...

Pumpkin Grumpkin: How did we come to put this collection of nonsense poems together?

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You must have heard of the lady who had 23 sons and named each one ‘Dave’; or the man who crawled around his floorless room; or the octopus...

The ingredients for Mortlock

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I’m often asked where the idea for Mortlock came from but the truth is there wasn’t one main idea for the book but lots of different ingredients that...

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This is a question which is always being asked of authors, and I’m sure I can’t be the only one to admit that I really don’t know the...

Booked Up is back!

by The Booked Up Team - 2 September 2011

A rather damp and disappointing summer limping slowly to a close is doing nothing to dampen our spirits here at Booked Up HQ; in fact, we couldn't be feeling any more excited! The new school year is nearly here and that can only mean one thing; Booked Up is back!

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Blame Star Wars

by Steve Cole - 31 March 2011
I sometimes get ideas for stories from watching films. Not just inspiration for settings and characters, but of how to present them.

 

When I wrote Z. Rex,...

History is not only about kings and queens

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History, you hear some people say, is boring. It’s about dates and what happened to a lot of kings with the same name but different numbers, it’s about...

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Dear Booked Up Readers,

A lot of people ask me where the idea for Love, Aubrey came from. Many of them are worried that what happens to Aubrey in...



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Of course I was delighted when I heard that Boffin Boy and the Forest of the Ninja had been chosen for Booked Up 2010. I was especially pleased...

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When I was growing up, I went to a total of thirteen different schools. And no, before you ask, I didn’t keep getting expelled. My father moved around...

My Top 5 interview questions for me: Cristy Burne

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Hi! I’m Cristy Burne, author of Takeshita Demons, and I’m stoked that Takeshita Demons is part of Booked Up. There are so many great books on the Booked...

A really odd thing to do

by Alan Gibbons - 31 August 2010

Writing a book, any book, is a really odd thing to do. You sit in a room on your own and you invent people, events, a whole different...