tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91626318329054205262024-03-13T10:29:20.412-07:00Claire McFallClaire McFallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466319819327276156noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9162631832905420526.post-53370386593424468112014-03-18T15:23:00.001-07:002014-03-18T15:23:44.107-07:00I WON!!!! Wahoo!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #cbcbcb; color: #323232;">
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">The Scottish Children's Book Awards took place on Wednesday 5th March and yours truly (that's right, me!) won the Older Readers 12-16 category!!!! 38,000 pupils across Scotland voted and they decided that they liked Ferryman the most. Which is absolutely AWESOME as I was up against some seriously tough competition. Diana Hendry (The Seeing) has got loads of experience and Barry Hutchison (The Book of Doom) had already won twice before. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">The whole day was fantastic. The ceremony took place at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow (which, to my shame, despite having lived just two miles away, I'd never been to) and we started with some pictures. There's a great shot of us cross-legged on the floor (so glad I wore my jeans!) with kids jumping up and down behind us. It was terrifying - I was expecting an eight year old child to come crashing down on my shoulders any second. But... the picture that I look best in, is this one:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">It was taken by Alan Peebles (hee hee, Peebles!!) who is now my new best friend. I suspect air-brushing may have been involved ;)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">After photos I was interviewed by the Daily Mail and Cally Uni radio and then there was a very quick lunch followed by book signing and then the awards ceremony itself. This time the Older Readers were all by themselves so we had a quiz and announced the winners of the Review and Trailer competitions. Well done guys! There was a Peebles High School contingent in attendance and I have it on good authority that the event was a success and good fun. Then... the moment arrived. I'd practised my Oscar-face, but let's face it: if I hadn't won there might have been some swearing and chucking things and screaming of "fix!" ;)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Afterwards there was another book signing and Waterstones sold out of copies of Ferryman which was a) awesome and b) pooh-pants as some pupils couldn't get a signed copy. Sorry, folks, although I did scribble my illegible sig on a few bookmarks and scraps of jotter paper. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">So there you are. It was a very exciting day and I can now say that I am the Scottish Children's Book Awards winner 2013. Can't say better than that. xxx</span></span></div>
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Claire McFallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466319819327276156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9162631832905420526.post-11886419667998656692014-02-27T13:33:00.001-08:002014-02-27T13:33:29.136-08:00It's the final countdown!<div class="MsoNormal">
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Children’s Book Awards winner is announced... and yours truly is a finalist in
the Older Readers (12-16) category. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mitchell Library on Wednesday 5<sup>th</sup> March – that’s one day before
World Book Day. Hope to see you
there. Cross your fingers for me and
Ferryman!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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NEWS!!!! Bombmaker was released on 1<sup>st</sup>
Feb and the reviews so far have been GREAT!
The link to the Guardian review is here:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Claire McFallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466319819327276156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9162631832905420526.post-25237176457619953142013-09-29T14:25:00.003-07:002013-09-29T14:25:51.305-07:00Long-listed!<span style="color: #323232; font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">So... got cool news this weekend. "Ferryman" has been long-listed for the UKLA Book Awards 2014. For those of you not in the know, that the UK Literary Association dahling! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #323232; font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">Yay muchness :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">To start off with we had to get the bus in because parking is pooh-bum-pants at the best of times in Edinburgh and when the festivals are on it's INSANE. It was Sunday so cue lots of me worrying about Sunday service and traffic jams and impromptu armageddons (yup, plural) that would prevent me getting there on time. Ergo we were there dead early. Chris took me for a bowl of chips because my talk was at dinner time (cue more freaking out: what if everyone just went for dinner and no one came to my talk???). Chips did nothing to calm me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">Post chips, Chris and I met Helen Boyle, my lovely editor from Templar who was looking after me. We went into the yurt and I was momentarily calmed by cake and famous person spotting. Ian Rankin was randomly walking around looking very nonchalant... but then I guess if you're as famous and awesome as Ian Rankin you don't need to get all freaked out by a little thing like performing at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Me, on the other hand...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">Anyway, before my talk I had a radio interview with Charlotte and Calum (one 'l' thank you very much) for East Lothian. They are pupils at Knox Academy in Haddington and I was very impressed with how professional they were. The hardest question was definitely picking the next song on their radio show. I panicked. Something cool, I thought. Something different but undeniably awesome. I could not think of anything cool or undeniably awesome so I had to go with just something I liked - and the only song I could remember at all (barring Chesney Hawk's 'The One and Only' - which now I think about it might have got me vintage cool points...) was Kings of Leon 'Sex on Fire'. It's still a good song!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">After the interview it was back to the yurt to 'chill out'. Ha. I was jiggling in the chair like a five year old who's been told they can't go to the bathroom. Then my techie person came to tell me there was a problem with my PowerPoint (WHAT?!?). Apparently I'd used some strange font they didn't have any EVERYTHING had moved about the page. On every slide. ARGH!!!! Fixed that, then they sent me back to the yurt (which I was beginning to really not like by this time - not the yurt's fault, all mine) to wait to get miked up so I could go down. That was at ten to six. I was still there at six. And five past six. And nine minutes past six.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">Suffice to say by this time I was panicking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">Eventually we had to grab someone and I went down not miked to see a queue of slightly annoyed people (my charming brother Kenny being chief amongst them) looking at their watches, and then the closed door, and then the nervous looking person coming too slowly for their liking towards them: me. Oops. To be honest I was just so happy that there WAS a queue that their irritation kind of washed right over me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">Inside the 'Imagination Lab' we found out that the PowerPoint had messed up AGAIN so they were fixing it... again. I didn't actually get going until quarter past but that was okay because I was the last on in the lab that day so they said I could run on a wee bit. So I did.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">The talk was fine... I think. I can't really remember anything that I said, but no one fell asleep or left, and they all tittered or smiled in the appropriate places and I managed not to swear. Success, I thought. Afterwards quite a few people asked questions (none of them too evil) and then we went through to the Children's Book Shop and I did a wee signing where lots of the lovely folks from the talks bought a book. Yay. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">After that, it was straight to the wine. Lovely Helen (that is her new name) bought me a yummy gourmet burger and the wine drinking commenced. Unfortunately it couldn't last too long because of stupid Sunday Service so we had to RUN for the last bus and made it by twenty seconds. PHEW. And then I went home and went to bed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">Here endeth my Edinburgh Book Festival adventure. It was way cool. But mostly terrifying.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cbcbcb; color: #323232; font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">I am ridiculously excited! Went along to a photocall and Glow event today to launch the awards. I'm in the YA category with two other brill books: "The Seeing" by Diana Hendry and "The Book of Doom" by Barry Hutchison. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cbcbcb; color: #323232; font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">We seem to have got our wires crossed a little at one point, though! My writing name is in <i>honour </i>of my dad - not in memory of him. He's not quite kicked the bucket yet! Sorry Dad! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cbcbcb; color: #323232; font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">But my New ... eh... Spring Resolution is to be better. Starting right now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #323232; font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">With "Ferryman", I think I got my hand held. Fix this, do that, change this bit. So I did. This time? Suggestions. Cue panic from me. What if I do it wrong? What if I make it worse? What if my mind comes up with a big fat BLANK? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #323232; font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px;">Aside from editing, I've been very very busy trying to find out how much action a Kindle Fire can handle before it dies from sheer exhaustion. So far, so good. Aside from my Kristen Ashley obsession (She's only for big girls and boys!) I've been discovering some awesome YA fiction. I am ashamed to admit that I've only just discovered "Divergent" by Veronica Roth... and I only found out about it through movie posters. Oops. You'd think being an English teacher I'd be up on this kind of thing. Apparently not. Next on my list is "City of Bones" and then... I need some hints. I'm planning to sneak up on my pupils during library time and see what they're into. Or maybe I'll just read "Harry Potter" one to seven for the... hmmm... twenty-fourth time. It's been a while since Harry and I were reacquainted, and I haven't had the chance to play with my Hermione wand since I got back from the studio tour...</span></span><br />
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months writing Ferryman, then an AGE getting an agent and a published. Then hours and hours (and hours) editing it;
then MONTHS waiting for it to come out.
It’s all come down to this, and there’s one, terrifying question to be
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I check Goodreads like five times a day.
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happy juice right into my veins every time I read something nice and
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copies of Ferryman! The release date is
now less than two weeks away (eek!) and I’m starting to get uber excited. Oh yet, that... and terrified! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lots of exciting (and yes, slightly scary!) author things. Just the other weekend I swooped down to
London (well, the pilot did, I just held onto the arm rests and tried not to
look nervous) for a bloggers even with Templar and Hot Key books. It was fab – got to meet loads of very cool
bloggers (who have my deepest respect... it is TOUGH to blog!) and some lovely
authors. Best bit – aside from yummy
lunch ;) – was that I got to sign some books which was WAY COOL! I probably should have been a bit more chilled
and pretended that I did cool author-stuff like that all the time, but hey – I’m
not cool and everyone who’s met me for more than five minutes knows it... so
instead I was just me: goofy and probably far too excited. Oh well, maybe I can develop cool. And grace.
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Amazon. So... big halt to the lesson
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<span style="font-family: 'One Starry Night'; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 115%;">Claire x<o:p></o:p></span></div>Claire McFallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466319819327276156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9162631832905420526.post-41633721717961473072012-06-18T12:52:00.001-07:002012-06-18T12:52:22.073-07:00How do I thank thee, let me count the ways...<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">So the edits are done - wow was that a slog!
- and the manuscript is off to be type-set ready to be turned into a book.
A book! In case you can't tell, I'm very excited!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Next part of the process? All the thank-yous! I
thought this would be the nice, easy part of the process. How hard can it
be to come up with a list of people who've helped an idea become a book?
Answer: not hard at all. How hard is it to write thank-yous to all
those people? Mega! I sat, laptop on my knees, fingers on keys, all good
to go. What came into my head. Hee-haw, to get all Sottish on you.
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">There are two things I'm pretty rubbish at: goodbyes and
thank-yous. I thought it'd be easier, what with it being all written down
and not face to face, but no. I still suck. Oh well, I shall just
have to hope that everyone who reads them and sees their name down there as
someone I couldn't have written the book without can see around my bumbling and
mumbling and get down to the core of what I'm really trying to say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ta. Muchos gracias. Thanking you. I am indebted... In
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I got a very exciting e-mail on Thursday...
my "edits" from my editor at Templar for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ferryman</i>! We're on quite
a tight schedule so I've only got 2 weeks (eek!) to do a bit of a revamp and
get it all ship-shape. So I almost had a heart attack when I opened her
attachment and saw that there were TWELVE PAGES of notes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">A glass of wine and a big bar of chocolate later, though, and I
calmed down a bit. And, when I read all her comments over, it's hard to
think anything other than: she's right! So I'm being a good girl and
getting stuck in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Today's job: ramping up the epic kiss. It's got to be
"worth dying for" apparently. I need inspiration. Tried
the mood music, but it's just not happening, so I think there's nothing for it
but to go out and see if I can find some gorgeous, hunky bloke to illustrate to
me what an "epic kiss" is meant to be like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I guess I should probably start with my husband... (sigh) ;)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">So I got an awesome goody-bag from
the lovely people at Templar the other day including some of their current
titles. I'll admit that I stood like a geek for a good few minutes
stroking the nice unbroken spine and sniffing at the pages to get that
"new book" smell. Awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I kicked off with "Swim the Fly" by Don Calame just
because it had the brightest cover. I figured I had maybe a half an
hour's free time before I had to go walk the Jazz-monster and get on with boring
worky stuff, so I could at least chow down on the first few chapters.
Four hours later, I was still there, work was undone and poor Jazz was
crossing her legs! I honestly couldn't put it down! It was so funny
and - in a very weird way - really informative. So<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>that's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>how teenage boys think. Huh.
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Anyway, I'm moving on to VIII by H. M. Castor which I am very
intrigued by because I love historical fiction and I know absolutely nothing
about Henry VIII except he did away with all his wives!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Who wants to work when there are books to read?!? ;)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "One Starry Night"; font-size: 48.0pt;">Claire</span><span style="font-family: "; font-size: 48.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "One Starry Night"; font-size: 48.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "; font-size: 48.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "One Starry Night"; font-size: 48.0pt;">xxx</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "One Starry Night"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></div>Claire McFallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466319819327276156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9162631832905420526.post-68648868157694925402012-04-12T09:05:00.001-07:002012-04-12T09:05:22.003-07:00Testing, testing, one, two, three...<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">This is my first ever blog, I'm quite excited. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">If you're reading this, you probably know who I am, but if you
just happened to randomly swing by and stayed long enough to read this far...
then this next bit is for you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">I'm a YA writer and I've just signed a contract with Templar
Publishing, which, when I think about it, makes me start skipping round the
room :) My first book, Ferryman, is due out in spring next year so I am
on the precipice of a whirlwind and very excited about it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 13.5pt;">This blog is where I'll post about my books, news and exciting
things that happen, and anything else random that happens to come along. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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