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.