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| 10th December 2012 Competition results for the TN7 and DS1 Sleuthing competitions:
USA Dragonslayer Sleuthing Competition. US and Canada Woman Who Died a Lot Sleuthing Competition. | ||
| 2nd Oct 2012 Youtube video of Jasper talking about The Last Dragonslayer and going on a location recce of Hereford, where the book is set.
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| 1st October 2012 Win a Book! 1: Win the MILLIONTH copy of my USA sales with my The Woman Who Died a Lot quiz. 2: Win the FIRST EVER signed US copy of The Last Dragonslayer | ||
 This beautiful and especially bound edition could be yours! (Grass not included)  The first signed first edition of The Last Dragonslayer. A true collector's edition.. Wow! Prize includes shadow, but only under optimum (sunny) conditions. |
I have two books out in the US this October: The Woman Who Died a Lot and The Last Dragonslayer, both of which warrant their own competition. The books can be ordered from: The Woman Who Died a Lot Amazon (USA) Barnes and Noble (USA) Indiebound (USA) Amazon (Canada) Amazon Kindle (USA) The Last Dragonslayer Amazon (USA) Barnes and Noble (USA) Books a Million (USA) HMH Store Guide (USA) Amazon Kindle (USA) To see the competitions, please click: Dragonslayer Sleuthing Competition USA only Woman Who Died a Lot Sleuthing CompetitionUSA and Canada |
| 19th September 2012  The NEW UK paperback edition with a cover that matches the rest of the series. This supercedes the old 'Supermarket' cover that it has lived with these past three years. This is from the 11th edition, and copies this should start filtering down to bookshops almost immedietely, although stocks of the old cover will linger on. |
| 14th September 2012 New Youtube film: On how you might get me to appear at a bookshop near you (17th Sept 2012)
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| 14th September 2012  The USA edition of The Last Dragonslayer, again, as photographed on my front lawn. It will be available on the 2nd October 2012 in the States, and I'll be touring for the whole of October promoting it and the US Woman Who Died a Lot. For details of the tour, go to my Events Page . The Book can be pre-ordered at your local outlet or at the following sites: |
| 14th September 2012  The USA edition of The Woman Who Died a Lot , as photographed on my front lawn. It will be available on the 2nd October 2012 in the States, and I'll be touring for the whole of October promoting it and the US Last Dragonslayer. For details of the tour, go to my Events Page . The Book can be pre-ordered in your local outlet or by mousing your way to: |
| 23rd August 2012  The Song of the Quarkbeast is now available in the UK in paperback. It can be ordered at the following outlets: Amazon (UK) Waterstone's (UK) Foyles (UK) Book Depository (UK) ...but to see how you can win a copy, go to my Win a Book page page. |
| 23rd July 2012 Ellen and Hatty of the Young Journalists Academy interview me at Lincoln on the 19th July 2012
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| 23rd July 2012 Youtube film of my hangout (it's a videoconference Q&A) at Google on the 20th July 2012
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| 23rd July 2012  The Special Features page is now open, and will list a short wordamneyray, a few deleted scenes (and why, which is actually a bit more interesting) and a 'Well of Lost Sentences' More details, go to my TN7 Special Features page. |
| It's here, it's here! 4th July 2012  Well, here it is, hot off the presses - the hardback UK edition of The Woman Who Died a Lot, or TWWDAL, as we call it. Now I know this will really annoy some of you collectors out there, but apparently TN7 will NOT be available in a 'Royal Hardback' edition, and only in the slightly smaller hardback. I had a word with my publishers who may do a rethink as a super-limited run, but, well, we'll see. I'll be making a special features page live soon, but you can find out a little more about this book by going to my 'Next Book' page. Oh, and if you are in a charitable mood, I'd be grateful if you could preorder a copy (if not buying it in the first week), so I might be able to get the book into the bestseller list, like we did last year. Not to make ME happy, of course, as I tower above such things, but for my publisher - and mother. Preorder Amazon (USA) Preorder Barnes and Noble (USA) Preorder Amazon (UK) Preorder Waterstone's (UK) Preorder Foyles (UK) Preorder Amazon (Canada) |
| 4th July 2012 Youtube video of Jasper talking about the new book, 'The Woman Who Died a Lot'. This is a first for me, and if successful, may follow it up with more!
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 3rd July 2012 Hodder and Stoughton press release Hodder & Stoughton acquires three new Jasper Fforde novels FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Hodder & Stoughton is delighted to announce the acquisition of new novels by number one bestselling author Jasper Fforde. Publishing Director Carolyn Mays bought three adult titles from Will Francis at Janklow Nesbit. Jasper Fforde's first novel was highly-acclaimed, genre-expanding The Eyre Affair; his last, ten years later, was the Sunday Times Number One fiction bestseller One of Our Thursdays is Missing. In between he hasÝhadÝextraordinary critical acclaim ('Pure inspired lunacy' Daily Express, 'Freshness and invention bursting from every page' The Sunday Times, 'No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality of the works, nor to their vast repertoire of intricate wordplay and puns' The Times) and numerous bestsellers for his astonishingly imaginative novels. His new novel, The Woman Who Died A Lot, is the latest Thursday Next adventure and, published on 12th July, is eagerly awaited by thousands of readers. Carolyn Mays said, 'I am continually amazed by Jasper's extraordinary imagination andÝit has been the most enormous privilege to work with him over the years. I'm thrilled to have a new contract to take us through 2017, and look forward to even greater, much-deserved success.' Hodder have bought British Commonwealth rights including Europe, excluding Canada. Jasper, in response, said: 'I am delighted at the news. Everyone at Hodder has done a fantastic job in promoting and supporting me during the past eleven years, and I am extremly happy that we will, as a team, continue to bring my somewhat odd books to the marketplace.' |
| 4th April 2012 USA Dragonslayer now published on the 2nd October, and will tour for a week ahead of Penguin, so I may potentially have a 15-city tour. Hoorah! Appearances Page
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| 3rd April 2012 What we got up to in Abu Dhabi. Not 'Aberdovey' as a friend of mine thought. I was chatting for a while about how hot it was, and how the leadership had embraced a culture of diversity to other religions, and he was getting more and more confused. Then I said there was a three hour time difference and the penny dropped. Mind you, I haven't been to Aberdovey recently, so it might be quite a lot like the Emirates. Oh well. In any event, my thanks to the British Council for sending us out there, and here are a few links to videos of us chatting on panels: youtube of Fforde and others in the ADIBF My co-conspirators on the trip: Laughs: Phillip Ardagh Selected gems from Large Forest in South America Food: Sally Butcher Veggiestan: A Vegetable Lover's Tour of the Middle East Travel: Tim Mackintosh-Smith Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Battutah Poetry: Tishani Doshi Everything Begins Elsewhere |
| 9th Mar 2012 ++ New Questions and Answers section on the Brighton Plot Bunnies Website: Fforde Q&A featuring Gregory Peck joke ++ |
| What were most of Jasper's Books written on? 5th Mar 2012  If you thought the answer was 'paper' or 'a computer' you would only be half right. From 2002 until 2011 I wrote all my books on this desk. So that would include: Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, Shades of Grey and Song of the Quarkbeast. Rewritten on this desk were The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear, and The Last Dragonslayer. It has endured three house moves, too. Only The Eyre Affair and The Woman Who Died a Lot were written elsewhere. The reason I am explaining this is because the desk is now retired and will be auctioned off at the 2012 Fforde Ffiesta in order to assist the Fforganisers in meeting the (constantly increasing) costs of putting on the Ffiesta.
There will be no reserve to the auction, and the desk will be signed on the underneath by me, outlining what it was, and its utter lack of global significance. Don't contact me about it. Direct any queries towards: The Ffiesta Website. |
| 5th March 2012 Finally! Thursday Nextreme Competition Winner announced. Yes, two years late, but we lost the trophy.
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| 23rd Feb 2012 +++ Title change for the upcoming Thursday Next book. No longer Dark Reading Matter but the more descriptive (and fun) The Woman Who Died a Lot. Dark Reading Matter will now be the title of TN8. I am currently fighting to get this into 1st draft by Monday, so all those waiting for the answers to the Quarkbeast Competition, I thank you for your patience! +++ 
A hasty mock up so we can have something to look at. The actual covers will be a lot better. |
| 30th Jan 2012 USA One of Thursdays is Missing published today - COMPETITION!
 The paperback edition of One of our Thursdays is Missing. One of Our Thursdays is Missing is published in the USA on January 30th 2012, and is available through the following links: Amazon Barnes and Noble (Nook edition also) Kindle edition Alternatively, they are also available in your local independent. There is a competition to win some books.. |
| German DTV TN6 preview 23rd Jan 2012  A preview of the DTV edition of TN6 'Wo Ist Thursday Next' slated for publication in August, 2012. |
| 5th Jan 2012 Jasper now loading pictures on to INSTAGRAM, if you are so equipped - under the username 'jasperfforde'.
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| TN-6 now in paperback (UK) 5th Dec 2011 
NEW NEW NEW 5th Jane 2012 One of our Thursdays is Missing is now available as a UK paperback. In addition to your local friendly bookshops, it can be found at : Amazon or Waterstone's or Foyles or if you have a Kindle, try: Amazon Kindle or an eReader: Foyles eReader |
| For older Fforde News Flashes please go to my Fforde News Fflash Archive pages. |
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