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Sometimes my life is pretty awesome :D

The event was much smaller than I’d imagined, which made me realise just how lucky I was to get tickets. It was more like Edinburgh than, say, the huge signing after the fairy tales thing in London last October, and I don’t imagine this kind of thing happens much anymore. The photo above was taken during the drinks reception before Neil’s talk, when he was basically standing around talking to people and being kind and generous, and everyone was quietly freaking out (or jumping up and down after they were done talking to him, which I actually saw a girl do :D). I got my copy of The Dream Hunters signed in addition to the Kindle, and I also got to thank him for everything (yes, again, but I do have enough to thank him for to justify saying it every time I meet him).

The talk itself was also really good - there was an emphasis on movie and TV adaptations of his work, since this is a film festival, but it covered a little bit of everything. I forgot to take a pen and notebook, and I can’t trust my sleep-addled brain (ugh, 6am flights) to remember things coherently enough to write a proper post, so this time the photos and very brief summary will have to do.

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In a real way, I think this is what my books for teenagers have all ended up being about. Being heard. Being taken seriously. Being treated as a complex being who doesn’t always get things right but who also doesn’t always get things wrong. And being told that there’s hope, there’s life, there’s laughter and love, that hurt is real, that pain is real, yes – but so is possibility, so is a liveable, wondrous future, despite what anyone may tell you. And the response to that has been amazing, and sometimes heartbreaking.

Patrick Ness - “Teenagers Deserve Better”

♥ ♥ ♥

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And speaking of Patrick Ness, behold the brand new winner of the  Carnegie and Greenaway medals :D First book to win both, and I believe also the first time someone wins the Carnegie two years in a row (ETA: actually second, but still!). So happy for Mr Ness - can’t think of a more deserving author :D And for Jim Kay too, of course.

And speaking of Patrick Ness, behold the brand new winner of the  Carnegie and Greenaway medals :D First book to win both, and I believe also the first time someone wins the Carnegie two years in a row (ETA: actually second, but still!). So happy for Mr Ness - can’t think of a more deserving author :D And for Jim Kay too, of course.

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