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By Candy Gourlay
My trophy photo with Jonathan when we met at last year'sHay Festival
A year ago, I attended a brilliant Patrick Hardy Lecture* on The F Word: Writing Fantasy for Children by Jonathan Stroud (of Bartimaeus Trilogy fame).
I meant to blog about it then, but couldn't for lack of notes (my shorthand just couldn't keep up with the speed of Jonathan's delivery. Just saying).
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I can't go to the Marion Llloyd lecture tomorrow but if you did and you're blogging about it, please post the link in the comments below - I would LOVE to hear what she says!
I remember his talk last year, it was great. And I lugged a first edition hardback of The Amulet of Samarkand for him to sign. My kids loved those books.
Oh thanks for commenting, Jackie. I don't usually expect comments when I'm pointing people away - like the <a href="http://notesfromtheslushpile.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/go-for-gold-why-we-must-all-be-more.html?utm_source=BP_recent" rel="nofollow">last one I wrote trumpetting wonderful post by Julie Bertagna</a>. Tried to turn off the comments to spare the readers but turning it off made
Hii there Candy, I did go to the Marion Lloyd talk, but I don't blog (yet?) I can tell you that it was a fascinating 75 minute, full of humour and passion, and the list of people she has worked with was arose call of the best writers of the past 4 decades in the UK (and Sharon Creech who is US I believe) The Invisibility cloak she refers to in her title sums up her voyage from the anonymity
Hi Candy, I've just written about Marion's lovely lecture <a href="http://lindseymountford.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/marion-lloyds-patrick-hardy-lecture-at-the-childrens-book-circle/" rel="nofollow">here.</a> <br /><br />Lindsey<br /><br />
Thanks, Eden! I hope Marion or the CBC will post the full lecture up somewhere, someday.
Hurray! Thank you!
Oooh just found this <a href="http://nosycrow.com/blog/what-s-an-editor-for-marion-lloyd-s-patrick-hardy-lecture" rel="nofollow">wonderful post about Marion Lloyd's lecture</a> at the ever excellent Nosy Crow blog. <br /><br /><i>"She spoke about the satisfaction she derived from being completely behind the scenes, acknowledging that one of the challenges of setting up Marion Lloyd Books