ARABIAN NIGHTS…
Monday 29th April 2013
Sorry for the long silence… writing this from my hotel room in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates where I’m taking part in a book festival. I can see skyscrapers and palm trees out of my window, a fountain, and a swimming pool which looks sooo tempting. Very cool. (Well, very HOT actually, but you know what I mean…) Thanks to the fab kids from Victoria International School who listened to my slightly jet-lagged talk this morning and didn’t complain when my powerpoint presentation didn’t work, or at my post-flu cough. Ahem!
It’s been a while since I last posted… I went to Rhodes for a week on holiday and fell in love with it… sunshine! Fab food! Lovely people! Swimming in the sea!!! Then I came back and got the flu, which was NOT so good… tissues! Lem-sip! Fever! Aches! Hacking cough! Sigh. I am much better now, but still have the cough as a souvenir…
Sooo… I am working on Sweet Honey again after a break for my holiday/flu. And it is going well… I’m being dragged into the story, which is always a good sign. I am also looking forward to my event this month at Liverpool’s In Other Words Festival, and my event at the lovely Hay Festival on Tuesday 28th May (half-term week, don’t panic!). This sold out fast BUT Hay have now given me a bigger venue so there are now MORE TICKETS on sale again! You can check them out here. If you can make it along, do, because I am hoping the very first copies of Coco Caramel will be on sale there… a whole week before the official release date. Don’t miss out!
Then I’ll be off on my official Coco Caramel tour… I shall be at Bromley, Bluewater, York, Harrogate, Southampton and Reading… and a fab event in Preston has just been confirmed too. Check the EVENTS link for all the latest details! Plus an awesome trip to Paris to meet my French readers, ooh la la! I’ll tell you more when I know, and update the website EVENTS page when I can. In between the public events, I will be at schools and libraries across England… and there’ll be Scottish and Irish dates later in the year, promise! (I was in Wales in March, and Hay’s in Wales too, so not leaving my lovely Welsh readers out!)
Right now, I’d better get back to writing the book… might just take my laptop down to the poolside… what d’you think?
;o)
xxx
Can you please do a “Oceania” tour? Please come to New Zealand!! <3 🙂
Sounds like so so much fun! I live in Australia, so you won’t be coming to my school, but I wish I could be there! Can’t wait for Coco Caramel, I remember picking up Cherry Crush one day in a bookstore and becoming hooked! Anyway, keep writing Cathy! Your my favourite author
Zara x
oh gawd i cant wait for your new books coco caramel and sweet honey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just watched Get Ready for Coco Caramel – Out June 6th. So that’s how Bobby looks like. I imagined her to be so different! Coco is pretty – very pretty!
I have got nine of your books and I want them ALL!
I am you ultimate fan. Please reply. xxxx
Hope you feel better Cathy. If your timetable is free then can you visit Dagenham BTW it’s in London.
Sounds like a nice holiday!! Can’t wait to read sweet honey!!
I cant wait for coco caramel to come out!! im gonna pre-order it xx
Hi Cathy, you have probably been so busy that you haven’t got my letter i sent you! Well i asked a question in there if i could be a character in the Chocolate Box Girls(honeys)as i really like them and when i met you, you said you really liked my name and might use it so please do! You are my fave author and the Chocolate Box Girls are my fave books, please reply back! xx
Hi Cathy can u come to Australia,because me and many of your fans in Australia really wanna meet u. I can’t wait to read Coco Caramel and Sweet Honey,but then the Chocolate Box Girls Series will be finished,so sad. Bye Cathy and people