Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland, Nicola Morgan is also one of the most experienced authors for children & young adults in the country.  Her latest book,  Deathwatch, has been written with the close involvement of a panel of schoolchildren, and it’s just about to be launched with “The Deathwatch Dash” – a flying visit to six schools by Nicola in six hours!  If you are involved in visiting schools, or plan to be, this show is essential listening – Nicola reveals the secrets of successful school visits and in particular, how to talk to a hall full of teenagers.  We also consider the question of risk and our evolutionary need for it – could we be doing today’s children a disservice by protecting them from risk too hermetically?

In today’s Write Report, Donna reveals that Hachette has drawn a line in the sand on the subject of book piracy.  And Homeland Security enlists the help of sci-fi writers… dreaming up new nightmares to fight, perhaps?

In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she finds a site that asks, “is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school?”

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