John Baker’s Blog

According to This Is London:
Under anti-terrorism measures due to come into force within two years, the US authorities insist they need to do background checks on all UK air passengers travelling to Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico and South America.
Direct flights to popular holiday destinations such as the Bahamas, Barbados, Toronto and Mexico City would all [...]

Author Sean Taylor has refused to accept the prize money after winning the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize 2007. Taylor’s picture book When A Monster is Born, illustrated by Nick Sharratt, took the Gold Award in the under-fives category. But Taylor said he did not feel able to accept his half of the £2,500 prize, citing [...]

On her blog, Writing, Life and the Universe, Angela Young tells us about a seminar she attended in the UK with Mark Thornton, where the subject matter, for authors, is how to sell your book to the independent bookshops. Mark’s course, entitled, Shelf Secrets, runs over a single day and is presented at Mostly [...]

Shortlist for the £10,000 James Tait Black Memorial prize.
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Psychiatrists wooed by Drug Companies, reports the New York times:
The more psychiatrists have earned from drug makers, the more they have prescribed a new class of powerful medicines known as atypical antipsychotics to children, for whom the drugs are especially risky and mostly unapproved.
Vermont officials disclosed Tuesday [...]