| It's time to unveil our first book trailer of 2012... ...this is one to get your spine tingling on this crisp tuesday morning. Watch it below, and tell us what you think. We've also put our rather slick animated cover for the book below, just in case you haven't already seen it! Daylight Saving is a brilliant ghost thriller from a new name in YA fiction, Edward Hogan. You can read the first chapter here | Buy Daylight Saving: Foyles Waterstones.com WHSmith |
Trailer Tuesday: Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan
Tim Wynne-Jones: On Writing
Every author has their own writing process - whether it's Philip Pullman writing in a shed, or Patrick Ness coming up with ideas whilst on the run. So we asked Tim Wynne-Jones what his working environment was like, and also if he had any tips that aspiring writers could sink their teeth into.
My Working Environment
My office is a mess. Just look at it! But I know where everything is and, hey, writing isn’t pretty. I’m up in the loft of my house in the woods. We live on 76 acres of rough bush land in eastern Ontario. Yes, there are bears, since you ask, but luckily they don’t tend to come up to my loft, as long as I keep the front door closed.
Writing Tips
I have tons of tips for writers of all ages. They’re all listed on my website: www.timwynne-jones.com
Just go to “Tips” and scroll down the menu; there are three items.
Blink and Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones is out now. You can read the first chapter here. Buy now from:
Amazon
Book Depository
Hive
Waterstones.com
Tim Wynne Jones: Inspirations behind Blink and Caution
Blink and Caution is our January Undercover read, the first of 2012, and it's best described as a roller-coaster thriller noir crime. You can read the first chapter here.
We asked Tim Wynne-Jones what it was that inspired him to write the book. Here's what he had to say:
We asked Tim Wynne-Jones what it was that inspired him to write the book. Here's what he had to say:
In the fall of 2008, two ideas wrestled for my writerly attention: a story, tentatively entitled Glide, about a girl who steals her drug-dealer boyfriend’s money and tries to kick-start her life in a new city. And this other story I called Push, about a street kid who only wants breakfast and ends up in an uptown hotel witnessing something that gets him in way over his head in a fraudulent scheme. I decided on the second one. By the time I sent it to me editor the book was called Blink.
And yes, it was a rather slim book… curiously, about half the size of Blink & Caution.
My editor liked it…a bit. But she thought Blink might need a friend. That isn’t exactly what she said, but that’s what I got out of it. And that’s kind of when the penny dropped: that “other book” I had thought about writing some time was really part of the same book! Ta Da! And so Caution was born. (I mean the character Caution.) I started weaving together the stories of these two kids getting them closer and closer to meeting, which they finally do about halfway through the adventure.
Blink was inspired by some strong feelings I have about street people. Let’s face it, every person who lives on the street used to live somewhere else. Each of them had a home, bad as it might have been. And the thing is not every street kid came from a bad home, either; something I know from personal experience. (No, not me, but someone close.) Every street kid has a story.
I always write to discover.
Speaking of writing to discover, Tim's written a great post all about that, which we'll put up in a few days.
Undercover: New Blood
2012 is here and it’s going to be a packed year for Undercover. We’re already busy at work on a new website, here’s a glimpse of the design in development.
We’ll also have more trailers, behind-the-scenes posts from our authors, editorial and design teams, and we’ll be launching an official Undercover facebook page.
But the best part is the list of books we’ve got coming up this year.
So, here’s a sneak peek at what to expect in 2012…
Blink and Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones
Blink is on the run. He was just trying to steal some breakfast; now he’s stumbled on a fake kidnapping and become a player in a bigger game.Enter Caution. As in “Caution: Toxic”. Also on the run, she sees Blink as an easy mark. But there’s something about this naïve, skinny street punk that tugs at her heart.
Charged with suspense and intrigue, this taut novel trails two deeply compelling characters as they forge a blackmail scheme that is at best foolhardy … at worst, disastrous; along with a fated, tender partnership that will offer them each a rare chance for redemption.
The designers here at Walker are always pushing the boundaries (see our Daylight Saving animated cover), and this cover is so great we had to show you the whole thing (front, back and spine).
Blink and Caution is out now, and Tim has written a couple of fantastic guest posts for us which will go up in the next few weeks. In the meantime you can read the first chapter, it’s guaranteed to have you hooked.
Also coming in 2012...
What do you think? Any of these have you itching to pre-order?
