Authors Electric

It's that time of year when quizzes and presents abound - so I thought I might combine the two in my post this month.  I have donned my festive Quiz Me Quick hat and set a few brainteasers for you: should you feel like participating, I am awarding either a copy of any one of my e-books or a gift-wrapped copy of the paper edition of Everything Your Dog Expects You to Know (I'll pay UK postage) to the winner of each category. The person with the most correct answers in each category wins - in the event of a tie, the names will go in a hat. Don't post your answers here, but email them to me via the contact page of my author website HERE, where you can also find details of my ebooks.  The deadline is 8th January and the winners will be announced on my blog post here on the 10th. The Questions! Which authors wrote books in which the following horse or dog characters appear? You get the idea: there's a horse or dog theme as that's what I mainly write abo...

Sue Price  I was whiling away a few minutes with the Guardian quiz... And then I watched Pointless... And then Have I Got New for You ... and I realised: I love quizzes. People love quizzes.       Karen Bush does too, so we put our heads together and, with help from Karen Bush the Quibblo site, concocted this quiz. It's over there, to the right, on the sidebar.      Karen set the questions: I endured the usual faff and fankle with passwords and log-in security puzzles.       It's a quiz on children's books (since we write for children.) See if you can get ten out of ten.        There was one question about Dick King-Smith , but Quibblo wouldn't allow me to put it up. It said, primly, 'Please remove the inappropriate term 'dick.' Ooooh, Missis! Be have!       So, despite Dick King-Smith being a highly respected and loved writer for childre...