On the school holidays I had the pleasure of attending an author talk by
Derek Landy.
Mr Landy travelled from Ireland to tell us about his very popular book series
Skulduggery Pleasant.
Mr Landy is a very animated and articulate speaker. He captivated and engaged the whole audience, explaining how the idea of the story of Skulduggery Pleasant, the savvy well dressed skeleton detective and the other main characters just popped into his mind one day on a journey to London, England. The first Skulduggery book was published in 2007. Mr Landy has just published the 9th and final book in the Skulduggery series, "The Dying of the Light", and is now working on a new completely different book series about a 16 year old girl, chased by evil across America. Mr Landy was asked if there will be a Skulduggery movie and he told us that he had had lengthy talks (3 years!) with Warner Brothers movie company which in the end fell through. Mr Landy was not too upset about this fact as he was worried the movie script deviated from the actual story. He is now in discussion with another movie company, where he feels he has more control over the finalised script.
Click on the link below to go to the Skulduggery Pleasant website:
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