July 2011 Archives

Tons of them, it turns out.  And all over the world!  And all through August, September and a bit in October.  Coming soon:

First up, is the Edinburgh Book Festival, where I'm doing three events: two on Saturday, 20 August (a solo one on A Monster Calls and one on the Guardian Award with Andy Stanton) and one on Sunday, 21 August (about dystopias).  Tickets available here.

Then on 7 September, I'm appearing with Meg Rosoff in the Schools Programme of the Mountains to Sea Festival in Dublin.  Info here.

From 12-15 September, I'm touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the German-language launch of A Monster Calls ("Sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht").  As soon as I've got a full schedule, I'll put it up.

Then I'm off to South Africa!  Isn't that cool?  I'll be appearing at the Cape Town Open Book Festival from 20-24 September, as well as talking to a bunch of schools in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Again, as soon as I've got all the details, I'll put 'em up.

And then it looks like I'm appearing at the Cheltenham Book Festival back in England on 8 October, but that may not be officially announced yet (so shhh...).  More details as and when.

Greets to the new commenters and it's summer, so there could be a slow-down in updates for bit, but I promise as soon as there's news, it'll be right back up here.  Now, go outside!

My grandfather immigrated to the US from Norway.  Norway is where I get my tallness, my freckly skin, and my last name.  My first book was dedicated to my beloved Norwegian great aunt.  I have cousins who live there.

And so all day today, I just can't stop thinking about Norway.  Though I imagine, neither can you.  All I can do is send the kindest thoughts I have.

Just a quick hit today to say that there are some new videos on the web that you might like.  The first are these absolutely STUNNING trailers for the German version of A Monster Calls, which they're calling Sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht.  It's out in late August in both adult and children's version.

The next is a panel I did in Munich a few weeks ago for the DLDWomen Conference.  The panel is chaired by the excellent Dr Maria Furtwangler (a very famous actress who's reading the German audiobook for A Monster Calls) and also has the supreme film director and novelist Shamim Sarif.  A good time was had, though I do fidget and have a cold sore, alas.

And finally, here's a video interview I did for Germany as well (same cold sore!).

Greetings to the very, very lovely new commenters and more soon.

I'm now doing three events at Edinburgh Book Festival this year.  They've just asked me to do a new one.  So that means I'm now doing a solo event on A Monster Calls on Saturday, 20 August at 3.30 pm.  Tickets for that are here.

Next, I'm doing an event surrounding the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize on Saturday, 20 August at 6pm with the excellent Andy Stanton and Julia Eccleshare.  Tickets for that one are here.

And finally, I'm doing an event about dystopias with Moira Young, author of Blood Red Road, on Sunday, 21 August at 3.30pm and tickets for that one are here.

It's be great to see you all there.  Edinburgh is always terrific.  And by the way, don't forget to follow me on Twitter (if you're so inclined) on @Patrick_Ness.  I announced these there as well, just like Posh did with Harper Seven.  Really, it's exactly the same.

Just back from a nice, sunny holiday and almost entirely away from the internet (you should try it!).  Not a ton of news, as it's summer, but a couple of very nice reviews of A Monster Calls in the Telegraph and an excellent starred review of the US version in Kirkus.

Don't forget I'm appearing at the Edinburgh Festival on 20/21 August.  All details here.

And big greetings to all the new commenters while I was away.  I'm sorry I can't answer every question (though I do try to answer some in the comments), but I do read them all.  More soon.

Just back from appearing on a terrifically fun panel at the DLD Women conference in Munich, and so a few quick hits today that I've written today's My Hero column in the Guardian on Martina Navratilova.  Who rocks.

There's also a very nice review of A Monster Calls in the Scotsman by the excellent Keith Gray, and really cool coverage of the Carnegie win for Monsters of Men on the official Amazon.com blog in America.

Greetings to the new commenters, I'm on holiday for a bit now (at last!) so might be a break in updates, but really, you should be on holiday, too, frankly.  It's summer.  Or winter.  Depending on your hemisphere.