Edward Kay

Okay, sadly, it’s not me that’s off to the Bologna Children’s Book Festival in Italy next week. But the good news is that my novel, STAR Academy (previously known as Special Ed), is making the journey to sunnier climes, along with my literary agent par excellence, Marie Campbell, and Samantha Haywood, her colleague at Transatlantic Literary Agency, the agency that represents all my literary work throughout the world. Since shameless self-promotion is as inseparable from blogs as deep-fried peanut butter sandwiches were from Elvis’s larder, please check out page 11 of the TLA Hot List catalogue for the first tantalizing hints of what STAR Academy is about.
I am told that numerous requests have come from publishers and scouts in Europe and the United States to see the manuscript of STAR Academy in advance of the Bologna Fair. So I’m feeling a bit like one of my favourite characters, Martin Short’s Ed Grimley in The Fella Who Couldn’t Wait for Christmas, “I must say.” Of course, I could wake up in a couple of weeks’ time with a lump of coal in my sock. But I’m an optimist by nature, so I’m patting down that big cowlick and putting the finishing touches on the final draft of the manuscript today before it goes off tomorrow morning to my Canadian publisher, Random House/Doubleday, as well as potential publishers elsewhere.

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