HAPPY NEW YEAR!
YES, WE KNOW IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE’VE DONE A NEWSLETTER – SORRY!
Our website is being entirely revamped, rejigged and really turned inside out by Webmeister Kev, but things have been getting in the way, like our…
AMAZING ibooks!
You can now get loads of our books on the iphone or ipod touch – just:
- Open iTunes and click on iTunes Store
- Search for Sleepydog
- Choose a book and download it!
There are loads of freebie sample chapters for you to look at, and lots of our books available at £1.19 – cheap as chips! You’ll find:
Star Bores – The Trilogy!
The Dark Forest series – Goodknyght, Whizzard, Trollogy and Knyghtmare
Vernon Bright – The Magnetic Bamama, Frankenstein’s Hamster, The Faster Than Light Show,
The End of the World
The Mad Myths – Stone Me! Mind the Door! A Touch of Wind! Must Fly! and Don’t Look Back!
Plus our semi-graphic books Colin the Barbarian and Colin II – The Barbarian Returns.
If that’s not enough for you, you greedy things, Sleepydog also publish FIVE titles by the amazing Louise Cooper! Check them out: and there are new titles coming online all the time, so make sure you visit the apps store regularly and look out for what Sleepydog are up to next!
Anyway, we’ve been dead busy with that, and then Kev told us the site was ready for us to work with but we didn’t know how to do it ’cos we is fik!
So while Kev explains to us (very, very slowly) how to use the new site, we’re carrying on with the old one.
So what are we up to?
Well, we’ve written two more of the fabulously successful I Hero series – Dragonslayer, in which you, the hero, have to defeat the monster that has brought death to King Olaf’s Golden Hall: and Tomb Runner, in which you are an archaeologist seeking the legendary lost tomb of Genghis Khan.
We’re also at work on a brand new series – I Horror – in which you are a slayer of supernatural creatures – vampires, zombies and the like. Well gruesome! – we’re even frightening ourselves! More on this in our next newsletter.
And we’ve written a brand new all-action blockbuster about the adventures of Luke Challenger – CHALLENGER: RETURN TO THE LOST WORLD – which will be out in the Summer. Watch this space!
Testosterone Night II
We’re also talking about Boys and Books on Feb 2nd in London – hope to see some of you at the Old Queen’s Head. Come over and say hi!
DRAGONSDALE IN JAPAN!
 
Barlow was out in Tokyo over Christmas and managed to track down a copy of the brand-new Japanese edition of Dragonsdale (which we wrote under the name Salamanda Drake – oh, come on, we told you all about this months ago, you can’t have forgotten!) We don’t understand the language, but the pics look fantastic!
UKCCIS, THEYCCIS, WE ALLCCIS TOGETHER…
We also took part in the first United Kingdom Council on Child Internet Safety conference at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Hall in Westminster, as Guests of O2, introducing delegates to our internet safety book Who Wnts 2 No? (Still available at cost price from O2.) The conference was addressed by the Prime Minster, Gordon Brown, and Children’s Secretary, Ed Balls – though strangely, neither wished to be photographed with Barlow in his gigantic Lord Skullsplitter character costume. What has the Government got against big green aliens? We should be told!
On the road last Autumn
We were out and about before Christmas with visits to (deep breath) – Conway and Pembrokeshire, Denbeigh (there really is a welcome on the hillsides, not to mention in the vales), Cheltenham, Berwick Upon Tweed (the Last School in England!), Belfast, Halifax for the Calderdale Reading Challenge and Ivybridge: then our usual mad time at the Northern Children’s Book Festival, with the best Gala Day ever at Stockton on Tees: then Leicester Grammar School and Lord Grey School at Milton Keynes (where Barlow skilfully left his laptop behind, der!) : and finally, Woodside School (nutty but nice!) and Halton Lea library in Runcorn. Hi to all, and thanks for giving us such a great time! |
