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Apr.28.2011
I'm not talking about THIS Royal Wedding, of course. I'm talking about the one on 29th July 1981. The one where William's parents tied the knot. It's quite a long piece--but read on--it'll be worth it!
So where's the exclusive Royal scoop then, I hear you ask?
Well, let's just say I have a...
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Mar.22.2011
I don't remember when I first knew about my heroine, Hildegarde of Bingen, but it seems as if she's been lurking on the edges of my life forever. Perhaps I met her in the pages of a book my grandmother owned. Gran had many books, and I spent hours as a child, lying on her rough sisal carpet,...
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Mar.01.2011
I wrote this article originally for the British children's writing blog An Awfully Big Blog Adventure. It created quite a stir globally...so I thought Redroom readers should have the opportunity to see what I said.
One Saturday night Martin Amis was talking about his antihero, John Self, on the...
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Sep.30.2010
Sometimes, just sometimes, good comes out of bad. Since I wrote my last post I have been overwhelmed by the responses I have received on a personal level, both from the book community and from the wider world outside it. It has, at times, made me very emotional. Scribble City Central has has had...
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Sep.26.2010
This may be the most difficult post I have ever written. Be warned: some of it may not make easy reading. But I want to speak out, because finally, after 40 odd years, I feel brave enough to do so.
First, though, I want to talk about Speak the book. You may have heard of it. It's been all over...
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Aug.27.2010
**I've been running these Mythic Friday Interviews for a while over on Scribble City Central. If you'd like to read more, there's a link HERE**
You know those '50,000 Important Things To Know About Writing A Novel' sites and the way they tell you that the hook in your very first paragraph is VITAL...
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Aug.09.2010
To celebrate all 12 of my Greek myth books now being out, my lovely UK publishers, Orion, are running a Twitter competition to win 2 complete signed sets of GREEK BEASTS AND HEROES. All you have to do is RT the competition and then (separately) tell @ninadouglas which is your favourite myth (from...
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Aug.03.2010
SPAMBUSH????
TWEETTACK???
What are these strange new words? Well, duh. Don't be so lazy. Go and look them up in a dictionary (as I always say to Lovely Son and Delightful Daughter). Oh. Wait. You can't. I made them up. At least I think I did. Who knows in this fast moving lexicographical...
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May.27.2010
Did the blonde woman in the bookshop throw the dice? Or was it the brunette student who set the chancy luck coins a-turning? Where does the story start? You might choose to begin here. Or here. Or here. I choose to start at the beginning. Or at a beginning, anyway. 1975 New York The book called...
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Feb.01.2010
Resolutions are what you're supposed to 'make' at this time of year. New Year=New Start and all that. Losing weight, being a nicer person, taking out the stress, going green. Laudable and excellent things, I'm sure, but it all makes me all a bit grumpy, really. Extremely grumpy and wanting to bite...
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Jan.24.2010
Yes, well all right. I know it's been a teeny bit longer than I said it would but I have WORK to do. You know. Writing. The thing that's supposed to be my job. And this author platform thing is tricky. Takes time and energy (did I already say that?). So about that technological spider's web you...
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Jan.21.2010
This blog is about many things--whatever takes my fancy. So there's a good deal of variety in my posts--as in my life. But lately there's been nagging. 'You're a writer,' say the naggers (you know who you are), 'so tell us about writing. What does it feel like when you're in the middle of a novel/...
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Jan.14.2010
Funny, the places you find poetry. I discovered my own favourite on the obituaries page of the Daily Telegraph, and it hit me in the heart right away. It's not one of the usual suspects--before I read it, I would have told you that my favourite poem was Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle into that...
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Sep.11.2009
I'm wearing it now. My mother's aquamarine engagement ring. She gave it to me when my daughter was born, just as she gave me, on my son's birth, the amethyst ring my father presented her with on the occasion of my own. But you see, it's not really her engagement ring. It's the replacement. And...
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Sep.01.2009
There's a sequel by someone else to one of your favourite children's books. It's sitting there on the shelf, calling to you with a siren whisper. "Now you can find out WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. C'mon, you KNOW you want to." But do you? Do you really? Just published is Hilary McKay's answer to...
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About Lucy
I was born in Basingstoke, UK, and later went to Edinburgh University where I graduated with an MA in English Literature and Ancient History. I worked as a children’s book editor in London and New York, before becoming a full-time children’s author. I am...
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Lucy’s Favorite Books
I have a houseful of 10,000 books. Favourites are subjective dependent on the day and hour and mood. But Tolkien's Lord of the Rings fits at most times.
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