<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Mark Robson</title>
	<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com</link>
	<description>Mark Robson author - official support site for Mark Robson, bestselling YA author.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:56:05 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.1.3" -->

	<item>
		<title>I won something!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, it wasn&#8217;t a book award. I won a trophy for being &#8216;Club Person of the Year&#8217; in Master Jackson White&#8217;s Tae Kwon Do Club. Given the other nominees, I feel most honoured to have been chosen as the winner. Either of the other two could easily have won it, but I get this lovely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2012/01/11/i-won-something/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Epsom Evergreen Event!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had a fun signing in Epsom Waterstones today. Given that I sold out of books by 2pm, I&#8217;d say it was pretty successful too! Naturally &#8216;you know who&#8217; was there stealing the show again, this time playing the fairy at the top of the store&#8217;s Christmas tree! Honestly, who would have thought a fairy would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2011/12/10/epsom-evergreen-event/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Bristol Book Bonanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on the road all week signing books. Today it was Westfields WHSmith, but yesterday and Wednesday I was in Bristol, Cribbs Causeway. Of course, Pilliwiggins was there too, hogging the limelight. She was most miffed that she didn&#8217;t have a stack of books to sign, but made up for it by schmoozing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2011/12/09/bristol-book-bonanza/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Pillywiggins and the First Aid Course.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that the elf I elf-napped was not an elf, but a very unusual fairy by the name of Pillywiggins! I try not to mess with fairy folk where possible &#8211; you never know what sort of havoc they might wreak with their magic. However, having inadvertently kidnapped a fairy and taken her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2011/12/06/pillywiggins-and-the-first-aid-course/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>I am an Elf-napper!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mwah ha ha haaaa! I elf-napped fellow author Julia Jarman&#8217;s elf at the Kimbolton Christmas Fair today. Perfect timing really&#8230; I was considering a bout of &#8216;elfy eatin&#8217; and now I have the perfect ingredients to start!!!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2011/12/04/i-am-an-elf-napper/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Learning Leaps in Literacy! Where&#8217;s the Fun Gone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there a magic wand we authors can wave that will instantly engage young people and make them want to read and write? I think the simple answer to that is no. However, I do sometimes sit with my head in my hands and wonder what on earth possesses those who devise the English syllabus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2011/11/11/learning-leaps-in-literacy-wheres-the-fun-gone/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Very Able Writers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just got back from my first two &#8216;Able Writers&#8217; days. This is a scheme run by Authors Abroad, who arrange to gather together groups of the very best young writers from several schools into a host school and give them a whole day of workshops with a professional writer. It was an eye-opener, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2011/11/10/very-able-writers/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Another year, another KLQ begins!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My association with the Kid&#8217;s Lit Quiz has been a long one, but yesterday marked a milestone &#8211; the furthest I&#8217;d ever travelled to attend a regional heat. Trevor and Diane, the local coordinators for the quiz, had collared me at the UK Final last year and coerced me into making the trek and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2011/11/08/another-year-another-klq-begins/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Mark&#8217;s &amp; Sparkes&#8217; Success!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a great day we had in the Daventry Barcelo Hotel yesterday! Lots of laughs with a super group of teachers, librarians and literacy coordinators. Ali Sparkes and I led a series of creative writing workshops that were designed to equip teachers with lots of fun ideas to take back into their classrooms. The overwhelming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2011/11/02/marks-sparkes-success/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Oops!  Sorry.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For anyone hoping to come to see me signing with David Melling on Saturday in Abingdon, I most humbly apologise &#8211; I won&#8217;t be there. I&#8217;ve just discovered I made a diary hiccough and had double-booked myself. I had previously agreed to a signing in Banbury Waterstones with the lovely Linda Newbery and had neglected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2011/10/18/oops-sorry/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

