David Maybury

Inis Editor

David Maybury is co-editor of Inis, the children’s books magazine, the Oddbally nose-picking champion 2012 and former judge for the Bisto Book of the Year Awards.

I’ve worked as chief tea-maker for Business World, The Irish Writers Centre, Sunday Tribune, RTÉ, GCN Magazine, Inis Magazine, Verbal Arts Magazine, The Bookseller, Children’s Books Ireland, Musgraves and Poetry Ireland among others.

The nice people at The Lisa Richards Agency look after things when I’m not paying attention.

Chaos Walking Short Stories
I'm not sure how this snuck passed by a month - but in case you have missed them too, you can read three Chaos Walking short…
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Teen fiction without pictures? ppfffttt to that!
Teen fiction has a new heroine. Cathy Brett, who, admittedly is no stranger to us, Brett is on her fourth novel, but swept in…
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Eoin Colfer: PW KIDSCAST
Eoin Colfer talks to PW Children's Editor John Sellars about Artemis, influences (so great to hear Eoin wax lyrical about…
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Harte Talks Books
Reviewer, blogger, bookseller and all-round good egg Kim Harte was caught on camera in the TV3 studio yesterday talking about…
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Google Doodles Sendak
Today is not just any old Monday.

Today is Maurice Sendak's 85th Birthday. 

And Google were not letting it slip by unnoticed.
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New UK Children’s Laureate: Malorie Blackman
Most of you spotted this announcement last week but for those who may have missed it - the inimitable Malorie Blackman was…
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Inis Podcast #4 (Translation Special)
We caught up with Sarah Ardizzone ahead of the CBI Children's Books Conference 2013 - part of Inis Magazine's participation in…
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CBI Conference 2013: What you said
Miss the CBI Conference? See what was said, snapped and caught on twitter: 

CBI Conference: Sunday
And we're back for day two of the CBI Conference - recovered after last nights antics - and back in the Lighthouse Cinema to…
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CBI Conference: Saturday
We're at the CBI Conference (in the Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin) for the whole weekend - bringing you behnid the scenes…
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Q&A: Alexia Casale
We caught up Alexia Casale, author of the mysterious and thrilling The Bone Dragon:

Where did the inspiration for this quite…
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Inis Podcast #3
 

The second of our two part specially-commissioned podcasts, based on the ed team's trip to the 2013 Bologna Book Fair, as…
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CBI Book of the Year Award: Inis Podcast
This years CBI Children's Book of the Year Awards have cooked up a worthy shortlist and winners (announced today) - and that's…
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Inis Podcast #1
The first Inis Magazine podcast is here!

The first of two specially-commissioned podcasts, based on the ed team's trip to the…
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Michael Grant
Don't miss your chance to enter the Fayz and meet international bestselling author Michael Grant to celebrate the launch of…
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Federation of Children’s Book Groups Logo Competition
The Federation of Children’s Book Groups (FCBG) have announced a competition to design a logo for its Festival of Children's…
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Irish Times Reviews: Robert Dunbar
Robert Dunbar reviews the latest releases in the Irish Times - including Tim Bowler's Sea of Whispers, Sam Gayton's Lilliput and…
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair : UPDATES
Keep up to speed with everything, as it happens. 

The Bologna Children's Book Fair begins on Sunday 24 March and runs for 5…
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Illustrated survival guide to Bologna Book Fair
As the Bologna madness begins to take hold and the everyone here starts to think in terms of halls, stands and where the…
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What do YOU think? Céard é DO bharúil?
Yesterday saw the announcement of the CBI Book of the Year Award shortlist. You can read what the judges made of the 10 books…
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Emily Gravett & Chris Judge
Emily Gravett and Chris Judge will be discussing their work, demonstrating their talents and challenging the room to join in…
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CBI Book of the Year Award 2013: The Shortlist
This years Book of the Year Awards Shortlist are here! 

Speaking at the launch chair of the judging panel Pádraic Whyte said…
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2013 CILIP CARNEGIE AND KATE GREENAWAY Shortlists
As the Carnegie and Greenaway Medal announcements inch ever closer (winners will be announced on 19 June) the longlist has been…
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Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2012
The Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2012 -  the largest Children’s Book Prize in Scotland (voted for exclusively by children) -…
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World Book Day
World Book Day rolls around on March 7 and the WBD Ireland team have some incredible events and activities – as well as books –…
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TED 2013
The TED Conference 2013 revealed their opening video yetserday - made by creative duo Mac Premo and Oliver Jeffers.

Set…
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Red House Children’s Book Awards
The Red House Children's Book Awards announced their winners on Saturday - and they always cause a stir. The award is voted for…
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Offset: Routes into Illustration
Last year Offset featured Alé Mercado and Matthew Griffin discussing paths into illustration: "getting into the business…
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Fault in our Stars Film Rumours
We like twitter around these parts, some of us more than others. And we like sleuthing. Combining the two just makes for all…
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Jeffers on Sendak
"There is a reason the character of the Boy in my first picture books wears a red and white stripy jumper, and that reason is…
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Role of the Reviewer
The RIA are hosting a public lecture by Professor Linda Hutcheon, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the…
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Waterstones Children’s Book Prize: Shortlist
The Waterstones Children’s Book Prize (now in its ninth year) has revealed the 18 titles shortlisted for 2013 prize. Broken…
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Vlogbrothers on Dublin
In the wake of John and Hank Green visiting Dublin last week... the vlogbrother duo (and Katharine) filmed the city…
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Children’s Literature: The Movie
The folks at 100 Scope Notes have cooked up something very special. You REALLY need to see it. 

Children's Literature: The…
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CBI Conference 2013
The CBI Annual Conference line-up has been released with more awesome writers, illustrators and speakers than you could dream…
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How To Be a Nerdfighter
The Nerdfighters (John and Hank Green) are in Ireland this week on the Fault in our Stars Tour - talking to a sell-out…
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International Book Giving Day
International Book Giving Day is coming around again - and for those of a giving nature you'll need some time to prepare. On…
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2013: our biggest year yet


We're getting excited about what's to come over the next few months - check out some of the January highlights!

    

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Paperman
Disney have released their recently Oscar-Nominated short-film animation Paperman online. The short, screened before…
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ALA Youth Media Awards
The book world came to a pause yesterday during ALA’s annual Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Blogs, forums, websites and…
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Flipped - Irish Animation Podcast
The debut episode of Flipped - a new podcast covering Irish Animation is live. Their first guest interview is with Andrew…
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The Grown-Ups-Read-YA Bookclub
The Grown-Ups-Read-YA Bookclub continues and they're looking for a new read - this time with a World War II theme. Anyone…
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Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
This years Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is go with more than 150 features and short films, workshops and special…
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Win Four New Books (and meet the authors)
We have something special to giveaway this week. Want to win books by award winning writers Tim Bowler, Geraldine McCaughren,…
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What Gets You Up In The Morning?
A group of intrepid young film makers from the London College of Communication have created an awesome video, What Gets…
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John Green LIVE
The upcoming, and sold out, John Green Fault in our Stars events in Ireland and the UK have plenty of nerdfighters in search of…
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Mo Willems in Pictures
We caught up with Mo Willems last week - and Mo sketched some answers...

Check out the full interview. 

 
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Quentin Blake | Live and in Technicolour
Recently honoured with an OBE, illustrator Quentin Blake, talks to Crane.tv about his exhibition at Marlborough fine art…
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Don’t let ANYONE read this Interview
Mo Willems Answers Some Questions
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Butcher. Baker. Picturebook Maker
Marc Premo ventures into the wilds of New York to capture a rare glimpse of the daily routine of picturebook maker and…
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Kickstart The Week
Kickstart is back... let us know if we missed anything! 



Michael Morpurgo talks Rudyard Kipling: 

Adults of course get the…
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Showing, Not Telling
‘Odriozola’s outlines are often spare, relying on a curve or an angled body or a tilt of the head to show character or emotion,…
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Maurice Sendak Interview
Months before Maurice Sendak died, Terri Gross interviewed the author and illustrator on NPR. The New York Times Magazine…
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Maggot Moon wins Costa Children’s Book Award
The Costa Children's Book Award was awarded last week to Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon.

Maggot Moon was chosen from a shortlist…
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Sir Quentin Blake
Illustrator, cartoonist, artist and author Quentin Blake has been knighted in the New Year honours list.

Best known for his…
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John Green on Tour
You've read the books. You've watched the videos. Now come meet the nerd fighters themselves, John and Hank Green!

Tickets…
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The Looking Glass
Trinity College based The Looking Glass magazine, a creative writing magazine exclusively for children's literature and…
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12 Books of Christmas
What happens when you invite some writers, illustrators, editors, broadcasters and publishing folk to sing a Christmas…
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Christmas Competition
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the Inis Christmas Competition is delightful...

Thanks to all who entered our…
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A READING JOURNEY WITH AN TÁISAONAD
 

Jacqueline de Brún writes about the invaluable role of Belfast-based An tÁisaonad in providing reading materials for…
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Peter Dickinson at 85
Peter Dickinson turned 85 last week - best known as the Horn Book Award, Guardian Prize and two time Carnegie Medal winner -…
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Kickstart The Week
Sit back, relax and let us do the hard work for you -



The Irish Times kicks off this weeks Best-of-The-Year lists with …
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Found Hans Christian Andersen
Danish newspaper Politiken have translated and reproduced an early short story, The Tallow Candle, by Hans Christian Andersen. 
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The first installment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit adaptation hits screens today - and you're in for a…
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Christmas Competition
They don't call it the festive season for nothing - we've got two more competitions for you to enter before Christmas - and the…
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Harry Potter Short Film
From the desk of The Sun comes news that the cast of the Harry Potter film adaptation have been called back together to film a…
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What makes a great picturebook?
The very brilliant Brain Pickings has been talking the best children’s books of the year - and today is asking “What makes…
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A Very Merry Christmas
Forget the coca-cola trucks and John Lewis ads. You know it's Christmas when you see Laureate na nÓg Niamh Sharkey…
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Kickstart The Week
Sit back, relax and let us do the hard work for you -



Those lists keep coming - the best of 2012 and what to look forward to…
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Choice Cuts: Chris Judge talks picturebooks
Author-illustrator Chris Judge (of The Lonely Beast fame) has a look at some of the best picturebooks of 2012. Here he picks…
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Picturebook Monsters
Ireland has always been known for its monsters.

The bean sí. The púca. Fairy-folk have populated the darkest corners of the…
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Life as a Laureate: Siobhan Parkinson
Siobhan Parkinson was appointed as Ireland's first Laureate na nÓg on May 2010 - ever wonder what Siobhan got up during…
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Kickstart The Week
The Festive season has begun and as the Best Of lists and Gift Guides begin to trickle through - we dig through the weekend…
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The Late Late Toy Show
The Late Late Toy Show has been and gone. Officially kicking off Christmas it's the one time of year when viewers of every age…
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The Inis Advent Calendar
Can you hear the jingle jangle of bells yet? The ho-ho-ho of a bearded man? The munching of carrots by reindeer?

As of…
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Power to the… Authors
The Hollywood Reporter have picked 25 authors for their inaugural Most Powerful Authors List - using success in publishing…
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Jeff Kinney Live Webcast
Diary of a Wimpy Kid author, Jeff Kinney, will be streamed live talking about Greg, Rowley and the Wimpy Kid series as well as…
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John Green: Crash Course
John Green hosts the Crash Course in Literature mini-series.

In How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature…
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Gradam Réics Carló 2012
Patricia Forde had never been to The Sugar Club on Leeson Street before, but then she had never been shortlisted for the Gradam…
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Laureate Lights up Hodges Figgis’ Window
Laureate Na nÓg, Niamh Sharkey, is painting the Hodges Figgis Christmas Window this year - with a little help from students at…
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Kickstart The Week
You know the drill. We dig up the highlights from the weekend papers for your perusal - get clicking and catch up with the…
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Irish Book Awards Winners
The winners of the 2012 Irish Book Awards - voted on by both a panel of judges and by public vote - have been announced.  This…
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Kirkus: Best Books of 2012
The retrospective seaon is upon us - when magazines, newspapers and readers, including us, first look back at what has made us…
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Costa Book Award Shortlist
This years Costa Book Award Shortlists were announced yesterday evening with some surprise, and welcome, inclusions - not least…
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Song of the Sea
In the wake of Cartoon Saloon's success with The Book of Kells, the guys are back and hard at work with a new animated feature…
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Meeting Niall Leonard
Newry-born Niall Leonard is a hugely prolific screenwriter. His wife, Erika, otherwise known as EL James, the author of the…
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Kickstart The Week
Forget a hearty breakfast... we have everything you need to get ahead of the week. Catch up on everything from the weekend with…
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City of Bones | First Look
The first glimpse teaser trailer for Cassandra Claire's City of Bones was released today... 

... perfect to whet your…
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Marcus Sedgwick Interview
Marcus Sedgwick has won an international following of young and old readers with his Gothic adventures, mastered the art of…
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Babar Turns 80
Babar is 80 today - check out this great video with illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff talking inspiration, Babar's history,…
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Wimpy Kid Wednesday | Competition
After a year long wait bookshops around the world will open their doors today to the legions of Wimpy Kid fans  who have…
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Kate Di Camillo talks Picturebooks
Author Kate DiCamillo talks about her first discovery of picturebooks and her respect in writing them. 
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Twilight Breaking Dawn (Part Two)
Call them Twiglits. Twihards. Twerds. Whatever your chosen adjective is - there are thousands of Twilight fans around the…
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826NYC Art Auction
We're not in the business of telling you how to spend your hard earned cash. Not normally. But... well, let's just say that we…
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Kickstart the Week
You've had some coffee. Replied to that urgent bacth of email. Now it's time you had your weekly kickstart:



The Random House…
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Rewind The Week
Had a busy week? Catch up on anything you might have missed on the Inis Blog:

 


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World Book Night Titles Announced
The 2013 World Book Night titles have been announced with YA best sellers by Malorie Blackman and Patrick Ness on the list…
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Michelle Paver Live
Michelle Paver joins the ranks of Eoin Colfer, Jacqueline Wilson, Jeff Kinney and Quentin Blake in a live webcast to hundreds…
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Like a moth to a story
New York based storytelling organisation, The Moth, have their videos online... and I've become addicted. Grown from…
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