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OTOLI has received another fantastic review at the lovely Book Angel Booktopia review site. Emma the blog owner actually posted the review from one of her guest reviewers as she is swamped with workload. The poignant thing about this review is that it just happens to coincide with some of the efforts being done for #Antibullyingweek 2011 on her blog, a perfect match considering the theme for the book. Check out the review here: OTOLI latest review. Huge thanks go out to Emma and her guest reviewer Beth.
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It's getting close to the week in the UK yearly calender when we can again throw some light on an issue which seems to persist as part of growing up and indeed sometimes after that as an adult, yep you guessed it, it's bullying. It's something I have unfortunately had to be around for most of my life. I've seen it all, from growing up myself, to my own kids, to the kids I teach. This year I'm involved as an author since I bound some of my experiences to all this (albeit thankfully as a fictional story) in my Young Adult novel 'OTOLI' which was released back at the end of April this year and so far the reviews for the book have been really great, just what an author wants! To bring some focus on anti-bullying week from my perspective as an writer and author I'm running a giveaway to win a signed copy of the book along with a promotional postcard and bookmark.
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I'll be appearing as a guest on the Hannah Murray show at Talk Radio Europe on Monday 17th October (yep tomorrow) to discuss my young adult OTOLI as well as upcoming UK anti-bullying week 14th - 18th November. Feel free to tune in and listen if you have 15 minutes spare.
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Hi all. My web site has been updated recently. You can take a look by going to the URL http://www.bryonyallen.co.uk . You will find free online reading samples of my books, video trailers, information, reviews and links to things that are close or important to me. Enjoy.
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I had a call from the manager of Waterstones in Bury St Edmunds yesterday asking for me to go back to do another book signing event, the last one was in June. Of course I was honoured to hear this and will be doing this next week on Wednesday 10th August between 11am and 2pm. Nothing like a quick turn around!
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You can check out the latest review for OTOLI at the Books4Teens website. Thanks to Jesse for doing the review,
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Ahead of my signing at Waterstones in Bury St Edmunds this coming Saturday (25th June) I took a small detour in to the book store itself on a visit to the town during fathers day. A quick glance showed promotional flyer's up for my signing event behind both staff counters and a short walk around the store led me to the staff recommended area in the children's and teenage reading sections. Here I found 'OTOLI' sitting proud on the second shelf down next to 'A Monster Calls' from Walker's publishers and 'The London Eye Mystery' by David Fickling books on the third shelf. The book obviously touched the store manager and his staff to allow it such a pride of place in a store absolutely full of books from many publishers. Given that OTOLI has been published by a smaller Independent publisher I think what this does is show that if a book can evoke such a response in people that spend their working day in and out of books it really doesn't matter how big or small the publisher is. The book will have fulfilled its aim, to entertain and engage the reader. Of course, I'm really pleased about this fact and my publisher is in contact with the Waterstones chain to put forth a justification for the book being stocked in all of its national stores. With luck my observation is a good omen for the future of the book in the
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I'll be a guest on the James Hazell morning show at BBC Radio Suffolk on Wednesday 15th June to discuss my debut teenage novel 'OTOLI', the topic of bullying and the UK charity Bullying UK.
Timings 10:00 - 11:00
You can listen via 95.5 FM | 104.6 FM or by the live web iPlayer and timings are 10:00 - 11:00. If you are tuning in I hope you enjoy the interview.
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I'll be a guest on the James Hazell morning show at BBC Radio Suffolk on Wednesday 15th June to discuss my debut teenage novel 'OTOLI', the topic of bullying and the UK charity Bullying UK.
Timings 10:00 - 11:00
You can listen via 95.5 FM | 104.6 FM or by the live web iPlayer and timings are 10:00 - 11:00. If you are tuning in I hope you enjoy the interview.
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Here's another review for OTOLI. YA Book Reads review
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Here's another review for OTOLI. YA Book Reads review
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Here is an author interview I did recently for YA Book Reads, just click on this link Author interview with YA Book Reads
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Here is an author interview I did recently for YA Book Reads, just click on this link Author interview with YA Book Reads
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If you fancy winning a signed copy of my first teenage novel 'OTOLI' take a quick trip over to the yabookreads blog. The giveaway is open for a month from today and the winner will be announced on 3rd July so there is plenty of time to enter. A review and interview will be posted at the site too in the the next couple of days. Big thanks to Kelly and team at yabookreads and GOOD LUCK if you are entering the giveaway.
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If you fancy winning a signed copy of my first teenage novel 'OTOLI' take a quick trip over to the YA Book Reads blog. The giveaway is open for a month from today and the winner will be announced on 3rd July so there is plenty of time to enter. A review and interview will be posted at the site too in the the next couple of days. Big thanks to Kelly and team at YA Book Reads and GOOD LUCK if you are entering the giveaway.
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Hi all, I just felt like sharing something on my blog in respect of OTOLI. Here's a link to another external review of OTOLI that has been featured and linked to at my publishers website. The review was left via the 'Published Bestsellers' blog site by Lubna Sengul who is currently a stay at home mum and a Freelance writer. I'm really glad that OTOLI is finding its way to many different people and groups in society as well as the teenage audience it was always intended for. More to follow soon.
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Hi all, I just felt like sharing something on my blog in respect of OTOLI. Here's a link to another external review of OTOLI that has been featured and linked to at my publishers website. The review was left via the 'Published Bestsellers' blog site by Lubna Sengul who is currently a stay at home mum and a Freelance writer. I'm really glad that OTOLI is finding its way to many different people and groups in society as well as the teenage audience it was always intended for. More to follow soon.
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Just a very quick post to say how pleased I am with some of the reviews that have been posted about OTOLI. The book has only been out a couple of weeks so I couldn't ask for a better start. More reviews are on the way soon but I'd really like to say another big thank you to Vivienne at Serendipity for the lovely review of the book, it doesn't get better than 5 stars. The Amazon reviews are trickling in too and hopefully more will continue to come once the page there shows 'In stock'. I believe the book has been received within two days by some that have purchased it via that route but I guess seeing a delivery time of 1-3 weeks listed at first glance just makes people go somewhere else or wait out. There's quite a bit happening behind the scenes so keep an eye for the updates coming soon! Bye for now.
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Hi all,
Just a very quick post to say how pleased I am with some of the reviews that have been posted about OTOLI. The book has only been out a couple of weeks so I couldn't ask for a better start. More reviews are on the way soon but I'd really like to say another big thank you to Vivienne at Serendipity for the lovely review of the book, it doesn't get better than 5 stars. The Amazon reviews are trickling in too and hopefully more will continue to come once the page there shows 'In stock'. I believe the book has been received within two days by some that have purchased it via that route but I guess seeing a delivery time of 1-3 weeks listed at first glance just makes people go somewhere else or wait out. There's quite a bit happening behind the scenes so keep an eye out for the updates coming soon! Bye for now.
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