A few weekends ago, The Newcastle Winter Book Festival 2011 took place in various locations around the City. A celebration of all things literary, both North East and further afield, it attracted writers of great calibre. listenupnorth.com was thrilled to interview and record 3 of these writers: MC Beaton, Ann Cleeves and David Almond. This took place in a small room at the magnificent Newcastle City Library.
Despite being giants of the literary world and continually being interviewed and asked all kinds of questions; I found the authors to be very gracious and generous each giving a fascinating insight into their outlook and work.
A great piece of advice from David Almond: 'Write your own story in your own way'.
Moving to different genre, Celia - The Trailer was released a short while ago and I am pleased to report that Celia - The Film is now available to watch either though listenupnorth.com or directly through YouTube. I also hope to show it at film clubs in local village halls and to do that the County Council have had to give it a special classification (15) so that it can be shown in public.
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Quicklinks
About the Newcastle Winter Book Festival
An interview with M C Beaton
A renowned author whose best selling crime fiction includes the Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin books.
An interview with Ann Cleeves
An award winning crime writer, author of the recently televised Vera series.
An interview with David Almond
Award winning Children's writer, his first novel Skellig was a best seller and his latest book The True Tale of The Monster Billy Dean is aimed at adults & older children.
Celia - The Film written by Rachel Cochrane
One Woman's dilemma - hot flush or hot date?
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