Carolyn tweeted from the event on Thursday, but for those who haven’t heard, my latest youth offering, Om op eiers te dans, has just won the Maskew Miller Longman prize for youth literature. Cover image to follow soon!

Well-known writer Riana Scheepers, who selected the finalists, said some lovely things about the manuscript. You can read more at http://m.news24.com/dieburger/Vermaak/Nuus/Maya-Fowler-met-jeugprys-bekroon-na-2-probeerslae-20110922

Shortly after the programme was designed, Sally (that would be SA Partridge) and I joined the line-up for the Greyton Book Club Festival, which I think is most fitting, since I went to Greyton way back when to hide from the world to finish The Elephant in the Room. It worked! And so I have an extra-special place in my heart for this very lovely town.

In any case, getting to the point, our event (at Pecadillos, Saturday 6 August, 2.30 pm) is called Stolen Moments and Secret Lives .

And it looks like this: Writers Maya Fowler (The Elephant in the Room; As Jy ‘n Ster Sien Verskiet) and S.A. Partridge (The Goblet Club; Fuse; Dark Poppy’s Demise) talk to each other about brittle dreams, flights of imagination, double lives and the dark depths of the teenage soul.

In any case, we’re hoping that said dark depths will be counterbalanced with the lovely venue Peccadilos (recently refurbished, as far as I know) is.

Please join us!