{"id":1664,"date":"2014-10-06T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2015-02-20T18:41:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:41:52","slug":"booked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"Booked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Thurs 2nd Oct I gave three talks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaumontleys.leicester.sch.uk\/\"><strong>Beaumont Leys School<\/strong><\/a> in <strong>Leicester<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s a pic of me there, <strong>gesticulating and gurning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BeaumontLeysArmWaving2ndOct2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BeaumontLeysArmWaving2ndOct2014.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BeaumontLeysArmWaving2ndOct2014-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I spoke to three whole year groups &#8211; around seven hundred and fifty young people in all &#8211; and did my best to answer some <strong>wonderfully searching questions <\/strong>about writing, reading and more. With two of the groups I also took the chance to test out the current draft of the opening scene of my<strong> new book<\/strong> and was thrilled (and relieved!) to find it went down well. My thanks to everyone I met for the warm welcome they gave me &#8211; especially <strong>Jane Robinson<\/strong>, the school&#8217;s <strong>fabulous librarian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BeaumontLeysSigning2ndOct2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BeaumontLeysSigning2ndOct2014.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BeaumontLeysSigning2ndOct2014-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>I adore school visits<\/strong>. If anyone reading this is interested in having me visit <strong>your<\/strong> school, I want to hear from you! As well as my page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contactanauthor.co.uk\/authorpage.php?id=203\"><strong>Contact An Author<\/strong><\/a> you can now reach me via the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.societyofauthors.org\/profiles\/writers\/sam-enthoven\">Society of Authors<\/a><\/strong>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nawe.co.uk\/DB\/professional-directory\/sam-enthoven.html\"><strong>National Association of Writers in Education<\/strong><\/a> and (I&#8217;m especially happy about this one-!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorsalouduk.co.uk\/sam-enthoven\/\"><strong>Authors Aloud<\/strong><\/a>. Click through or email me directly: <strong>visits@samenthoven.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thurs 2nd Oct I gave three talks at Beaumont Leys School in Leicester. Here&#8217;s a pic of me there, gesticulating and gurning. I spoke to three whole year groups &#8211; around seven hundred and fifty young people in all &#8211; and did my best to answer some wonderfully searching questions about writing, reading and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwaha-bwahahahaha","category-contact-me","category-events-and-appearances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}