lost and forgotten books

Ginger Gorman has blogged over at the ABC Canberra site about her "Afternoons" show on 6th August, which featured Adam talking about The Lost Book.

There's an extract from Adam's interview plus Ginger's summary of the other lost book stories she uncovered for the show. BookCrossers and book sharers will be particularly interested to learn about the Footpath Library and there's a great tale from the National Library of Australia.

Thanks, Ginger, for the shout-out!

[Cross-posted from The Lost Book: Lost and forgotten books.]

BookCrossing UK UnConvention

I'm not sure what I'm trying to explain here, but it clearly needed lots of hand-waving! The BookCrossing 2009 UK UnConvention took place in Edinburgh on the first weekend of July. The Saturday was packed full of talks and workshops, given by authors such as Aline Templeton and Linda Gillard... and The Lost Book team.

Kirsten Hunter of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and I did a double-act. A lot of the audience were familiar with the project, so after a quick intro we talked about characterisation and how we develop a character - in terms of visual design, personality, sound effects and music. We focused on Watson (everyone's favourite!) and showed how he developed from the first concept models.

Many thanks to audience-member Kirstin for the photo.

the lost book episode 6

The sixth and final episode of The Lost Book launched at the end of July. As always, the story contained some surprises suggested by the audience. It tied up all sorts of loose ends and showed what happened to the characters after their adventure.

Aileen has taken up two invitations - she's joined Invisible Inc. and gone on a date with Kyle! Watson is happier about the former...

The Lost Book blog is still up and running, and will continue to feature updates about the project, "making of..." posts, and other things of interest to the audience. At the moment you can win original artwork from The Lost Book plus an autographed SCO CD in our prize draw - simply complete our ten-minute feedback survey.

Easy as ABC

I've been using up a few of my fifteen minutes of fame this week after receiving a contact from presenter, Ginger Gorman, of ABC Radio, Australia. Despite the wicked time difference, we managed to record a phone interview about the Lost Book that was aired on 666 ABC Canberra as a feature on the "Afternoons" show on Tuesday.

Ginger was standing in for regular "Afternoons" host, Genevieve Jacobs, and the theme for her programme was lost books. She collected together an intriguing set of callers and contributers to make a very interesting and enjoyable two hour show. Ginger was very enthusiastic about The Lost Book and asked lots of great questions. It was really fun to take part in the show - thanks Ginger for getting in touch.

If it's possible to get a link to the programme or even put up the interview here on The Lost Book we will. In the meantime here's a 12 second snippet talking about Aileen Adler.

Clip from Adam's 666 ABC Canberra radio interview

[Cross-posted from The Lost Book: Easy as ABC.]