Publication Day x 2!
It is unusual, but this week I have two publication days. One, in the US, for the paperback of SEPULCHRE - and thank you to everybody who's sent emails about that. The second is today in the UK, Thursday 5th March, for a very specific short novella written for adults with literacy difficulties.
March 5th is marked as World Book Day in the UK, where all children of school age are given a voucher to buy a book and lots of very affordable titles are published. Over the years, it became clear that it might also be a good day to focus on adult literacy too. Now, six bestselling authors are each year commissioned to write 20,000 novels aimed at adults with a reading age of between 9 and 12 years old. There are restrictions - no foreign words, no words of more than three syllables and so on - but the aim is to produce exciting, fast moving and typical (in terms of eah of the authors involved) fiction for this very specific market.
The Cave is a ghost story and, although it bears many of the hallmarks of my usual fiction, I found it very challenging, although also very rewarding, to write. In a few hours I'm off to do a live event with adult learners at a trade union in a local hospital, so I'll report back.
But, for now, happy World Book day to readers wherever you are!
A bientot
Kate
March 5th is marked as World Book Day in the UK, where all children of school age are given a voucher to buy a book and lots of very affordable titles are published. Over the years, it became clear that it might also be a good day to focus on adult literacy too. Now, six bestselling authors are each year commissioned to write 20,000 novels aimed at adults with a reading age of between 9 and 12 years old. There are restrictions - no foreign words, no words of more than three syllables and so on - but the aim is to produce exciting, fast moving and typical (in terms of eah of the authors involved) fiction for this very specific market.
The Cave is a ghost story and, although it bears many of the hallmarks of my usual fiction, I found it very challenging, although also very rewarding, to write. In a few hours I'm off to do a live event with adult learners at a trade union in a local hospital, so I'll report back.
But, for now, happy World Book day to readers wherever you are!
A bientot
Kate
1 Comments:
At 20 July 2009 15:59 ,
Michaelle said...
I'm happy to read that I can wait the third book of the trilogy in reading The Cave!
The south Carcassone area is present in my heart since I worked there. I worked few summers with teenagers in difficulties in Nebias, small village located between Quillan and Puivert. We made hicking trips in the mountains around, slept outside next to old castles, visit Carcassone, Montségur, Limoux....friends of mine are leaving in Esperaza...Even if I come from Strasbourg ans live there, I feel like home in the Cathars road area. Your books are realy touching me and putting some words on the region spirit.
Passez d'agéables moments en cette magnifique région, attirante de par sa splendeur et son pouvoir.
Michaelle
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