The Peter James Scholarships
Peter James Scholarships
As a token of thanks to Brighton University for awarding me an Honorary Doctorate last year, my publishers, Pan Macmillan, decided it would be a nice gesture to fund two annual scholarships for English at the University.
Recently, Geoff Duffield, Group Sales and Marketing Director of Pan Macmillan, and I, attended a lunch to celebrate with one of the first two scholarship winners, the very delightful and extremely bright Victoria England.
Pictured from left to right are Professor Raf Salkie, Professor of Language Studies, David House, Vice-Chancellor, Geoff Duffield, Victoria England, me, and Ulla Spittler, Principal Lecture/Programme Leader in Language and Cultural Studies.
Victoria told Geoff and I that she was interested in a career in children's publishing. As Geoff has only recently been given control of the Pan Macmillan children's list in addition to the adult lists, this lunch might turn out to be a good career move for her!!!
5 Comments:
At 1:39 PM ,
Anonymous said...
The greatest thing would be to encourage children to read.
Lets hope this all works.
Jane-Mary
At 9:31 PM ,
Peter James said...
I totally agree with you. It is so sad when parents don't read or encourage their kids to read. There is nothing I dislike more than to go into a house where there are no books.
At 9:54 AM ,
Jacqueline Twamley said...
If we don't read to my Daughter she will get out her books and read the story to herself, its lovely to watch her telling the story.
Read the Perfect Murder book and I really enjoyed it. I pre-ordered it on Amazon. Only trouble is it took me no time at all to read. I am not sure what it is but I find your books really easy to read.
At 12:59 PM ,
Peter James said...
That is so nice to hear about your daughter!
Glad you find my books so easy to read - maybe I need to find a way of slowing them down to extend the reading pleasure... and of course to keep my lovely authors reading me and no my rivals :-))))
At 5:56 PM ,
Jacqueline Twamley said...
Unless you are going to write 12 books a year, I am not going to be able to not read other books. Surely its good to have an absolute favourite but read other things ? I am sure you must agree that there simple isnt enough time to read all the things you want to. Did you see the re make of Sabrina. Where Sabrinas father had given up a proper career to be a chauffeur and read books when he wasnt driving, I love that film, just wonderful.
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