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Dear Ms Peyton,

May I call you Kathleen?  In my head you will always be KM. I discovered you first through the TV series of Flambards, back in the early 80s.  I’d recently moved back to NYC from London, and missed...

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The Bride’s Farewell, Now Available in Blonde.

Oh dear. Forgot to mention that I have a new paperback out — and isn’t that just typical? I mean, aren’t we all supposed to be ruthlessly flogging our books? Isn’t that why we blog? I dunno. Too many...

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A few more words on casting.

I’d only worked in advertising a couple of years before I moved to London, but during that period I wrote tons of radio commercials. Not yer newfangled “BUY THIS! BUY THAT! IT’S GREAT IT’S CHEAP!”...

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The thing about The Big Book.

I’ll never forget the evening before publication of Just In Case, when the lovely Tracy Chevalier (Girl With A Pearl Earring) told me that every book I wrote after The Big Book would sell at least 15%...

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How I Live Now Film News

I wasn’t the last to know, but I’ve been offline for two days, and came home to find a few hundred emails, many of them demanding to know whether it’s true that Saoirse* Ronan has been cast as Daisy in...

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ONE MILLION FREE BOOKS!!!!

No, this is not spam. If it were, you can imagine what sort of books you’d get for free. Books with titles like How To Marry A Sexy Girl You’ve Never Met or Best Penis Extensions (while we’re on that...

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“One of the almost nonexistent real authors.”

You know me, dear blogees.  I’m not one to blow my own modest little brass trumpet. Nevertheless. Every once in a while a fan letter appears that just makes a person smile. Which is what this one does....

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It’s World Book Night!

No no no, I mean, it’s the morning of World Book Night, which means you still have hours to decide what you’re going to wear. I thought I’d borrow my daughter’s Cat in the Hat outfit, one of my few...

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Word count.

When I started writing How I Live Now, I e-mailed my agent and asked how long a book is supposed to be. In retrospect it strikes me as a funny question, one that goes right alongside ‘how many...

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Imaginary friends.

I was thinking about the next book as I wandered through Abney cemetery with the dogs this morning. Abney is a great place to find names, though I tend to forget them by the time I get home. (Note to...

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