Jeremy Strong: World Book Day

It's been pretty manic this last week here in the UK. We had World Book Day. Every schoolkid in the UK got a voucher to exchange for a special World Book Day book. There are ten titles to choose from, and one is a new story of mine—My Sister's Got a Spoon Up Her Nose. All week I’ve been whizzing around doing promotional work for the book and World Book Day—been in schools, theaters, TV, etc., blah-blah-ing!

Thank heavens the weekend arrived and I could stop. Now I'm back home and I'm preparing for some more visits to schools. I'm going to Milan (Italy), shortly to speak to children at an International School out there. I'm looking forward to it. It'll mostly be work, but I should have a chance to look around—all those fab Italian clothes stores! (And all the arty stuff, too.)

I'm also moving slowly toward starting a new story. I'd like to write a sequel to Stuff, but at the moment I don't have much of an idea about where to take things. Will Stuff stay with Sky, or is there trouble ahead? The new baby should be arriving, so maybe that'll cause problems. And what about Pete? I like him, as a character to write about! He's unpredictable and you can never be sure he's telling the truth. I have known several people in real life like that. They can be very attractive as personalities, but maybe after a while you get fed up with not being able to rely on what they tell you.

Do you know anyone like that? How do you get on with them? Do you think they're cool, or do they simply drive you mad?

Oh yes—I'd love to know what you think of Stuff as a story. Do let me know.

Jeremy Strong
Author of Stuff