Going to be hitting the road this week – well, travelling as far as Birmingham – with lots of plans and intentions on both the sourcing side of things and the selling! The Spring Fair at the NEC is…
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This has been a really successful week for our brand new product – Creative Writing Workshops. We’ve had a big wave of publicity about these, just days after issuing press info and we’ve already had 3 bookings, an enquiry about…
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Brief for Book Trailer Production 1) The book trailer should either focus on The Befana Drama or on both The Befana Drama and its sequel, Capriccia’s Conundrum, or a pitch for 2 trailers can be considered. Background to the…
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Catapult PR is looking for a hungry young film maker seeking the opportunity to have their work showcased on an international stage. The consultancy is taking its book, The Befana Drama, and its sequel, Capriccia’s Conundrum, to the Children’s…
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Despite having won 23 awards, met some fascinating celebrities and lived a little bit of the high life during my years on this earth, nothing has made me happier than receiving this feedback from the children at a school I…
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I am absolutely delighted to have been invited to become a Visiting Fellow of Solent University in Southampton. This follows my presentation to the PR and advertising students on Wednesday, at which I presented my career and highlights and anecdotes…
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Catapult will be heading to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair with big ambitions and first-class products with which to wow literary agents, film moguls, foreign publishing houses and others. But Bologna’s not the only big shiny nugget in the Catapult…
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I’ve just been hedonistic. I’ve returned from Ripon, from two days spent in the freezing cold with only a clinically insane jester as amusement, to tuck in to Amaretto Apricots accompanied by a glass of red wine. This is highly…
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Haven’t had the greatest of days today, to be honest, but that’s pretty much because I detest figures and I chose, at 7am, to start focusing on them. There was kind of a compelling reason for this – getting the…
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Have had a really eye opening day on the book front. You might say that started when I learned that an old friend had, unbeknown to me, bought ‘Rogue Elephants’ and could hear my voice as he was reading it! …
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