My next few months are full of exciting visits all over the country. I’ll try to post details here as soon as I can!
In the meantime, here are a couple of the things I’ve been getting up to…
- Launch of a new book club at Waterstones
In our first meeting, we discussed Wonder by R J Palacio. We also made clay figures and had fun describing their personalities. Thank you for coming along, lovely readers. I’m really looking forward to our next meeting!
- Writing Workshop at KEVICC
Thanks very much to King Edward VI Community College in Totnes for inviting me along. Read all about it here.
I had a busy World Book Day this year, with a great visit to Newton Abbot College. (See their gorgeous display in the picture!)
It’s my fourth year in a row of visiting NAC on World Book Day, with my first visit being the publication day of Split by a Kiss. It’s practically a tradition…
The next day, I went to Torquay Community College to talk to a group of students about writing and blogging. We had a brilliant time creating characters and discussing books.
Saturday was my book signing at Waterstone’s in Newton Abbot, where I chatted to some fantastic readers.
Thank you very much to all the wonderful students, teachers, readers, bloggers, staff and shoppers I’ve met in the past week!
I was recently involved in a school library Readathon launch.You can see pics of me in the slideshow below, and read more about it at the King Edward VI Community College site.
I’m on Girls Heart Books following my recent school visit to King Edward VI Community College, with brilliant contributions from the students in answer to the question “Why read?”
In case any of the students are reading this page after today’s visit, the links I mentioned during my talk are: Chicklish – teen book review site, and Girls Heart Books – group author blog.
I visited Holsworthy as part of the schools programme for the Appledore Book Festival, so huge thanks to them, too!
Thanks also to Joanne Wilson and Devon Libraries for inviting me to host a writing workshop at Newton Abbot Library at the end of February. I loved the stories everyone came up with and I hope I’ll get to see how some of them develop!
Some of my visits were mentioned in the Herald Express, 8th March 2011.
Newton Abbot College library staff Jo Slade and Emma Reed arranged a fun packed day of activities for students on World Book Day (Thursday 3rd March). For the fourth year running, local author for teenagers Luisa Plaja, came in for most of the day. She gave a formal talk, played a group story telling activity and then ate in the library in the informal event called “Lunch with Luisa”! Poor Luisa found it hard to eat her sandwich as so many questions were fired at her by very enthusiastic fans and budding writers. Year 8 student Dylan Rudling said “It was really exciting to meet a real life author and to see how they juggle their every-day lives.”
And here I am with awesome Amber from Newton Abbot College:
Have you ever wanted to know what it would be like to create your own book? Luisa Plaja author of Split by a Kiss, Extreme kissing and Swapped by a Kiss will be coming to Newton Abbot library to help you do just that! This is too good an opportunity to miss, limited spaces available so grab your ticket now.
Audience:
11-16 years
Cost:
FREE
Bookings:
Please either call the library or pop in to collect your ticket.
Newton Abbot Library, Teign House, Kingsteignton Road, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 2QG Tel: 01392 384012
Diary of a Mall Girl is out next week and already shipping online!
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