AUTHOR VISITS

Think books and writing and authors are “boooooring”?  Then be prepared to think again!  Better still, have a look at a selection of genuine quotes from some genuinely satisfied customers, complete with genuinely appalling spelling and genuine lack of punctuation.  Kuh!  Kids today eh?  If they spent less time on computers and watching TV blah blah drone whatever…

Where was I?  Oh yes.  Over the past few years, I have visited quite literally loads of schools, libraries and festivals – and with a couple of clicks of a mouse, I could be on the way to see you too!  In a school, or a library, that is.  Not in your house.  That would be silly.  And quite possibly illegal.

By the way I live in Edinburgh, so it wouldn’t be practical, or economical for me, to come and do one visit to a school in Devon, for instance.  But if it was several schools in Devon spread over a couple of days, then who knows?

I’m pretty darn flexible when it comes to age-ranges and stuff.  I’m happy to visit children from P1 all the way through to S2(ish) – that’s all primary and the first 2 years of secondary for you lot down south by the way.

You’ll see from some of the quotes that I’m prepared to use any means necessary in order to smash commonly held preconceptions, whether that be singing, poetry, impressions, tap-dancing, or chainsawing small furry animals.  Actually that’s not true.  I can’t tap-dance.  But pretty much anything else goes.  Remember kids – resistance is futile.  (I’m nice and gentle when it comes to teeny ones incidentally.  We don’t want anyone scarred for life now do we?  That wouldn’t be big and it definitely wouldn’t be clever).

Anyway I’ve got stuff to do (that kettle isn’t going to switch itself on you know) so if you’d like to contact me and arrange something then you can do so directly, via the contact page.  Alternatively, you can contact the lovely people at Scottish Book Trust by clicking here info@scottishbooktrust.com or here www.scottishbooktrust.com  They may even be able to help with the funding.