Calamitous Queen Blog Tour

Hi Everyone,

Over the next few weeks I'm blog touring for The Calamitous Queen, the fourth and final book of my humorous fantasy series for younger readers (and older ones still young at heart), Grim and Grimmer. It's published by Scholastic Australia, http://www.scholastic.com.au/ and http://onyabus.blogspot.com/ and you can read the first chapters here, http://www.ian-irvine.com/calamitousqueen_ch1.html 

Emajicka is marching on Grimmery with an army of a million Fey. Can things possibly get worse?

Yes, they can, for Ike is all alone. Mellie has gone, attempting to pull off the perfect crime. Lord Monty is at war with his reattached head. The beautiful sprite Mothooliel wants to steal Ike’s eyeballs, and Grogire the firewyrm plans to kill him in the most disgusting way.

Can Pook and Ike free the Collected children? Will Ike discover the secret of the Gate Guardians and clear his parents’ names in time to save Grimmery? Or will Spleen and Nuckl finally feast on Ike’s innards?

Brace yourselves for a wild ride.

• "Fast and furious and very funny." Reading Time
• "The funniest horror story you'll read in a long while." Good Reading
• "Very funny, as well as dangerous, gory and grotty." Aussiereviews.com
• "Funny and fast paced. Recommended." Bookseller and Publisher.
• "The fun explodes off every page." Richard Harland, international bestselling author ofWorldshaker. www.richardharland.net
• "A wonderful tale. Delightfully dark and delicious." Jacq Ellem,www.hittheroadjacq.com
• "I gasped and laughed my way through these three books." Dee White, Kids' Book Capers.

For blurbs, covers and first chapters for the series, see http://www.ian-irvine.com/grimgrimmer.html 

TOUR SCHEDULE

DATE	HOST BLOG	URL	TOPIC
May 27, 2011	Gabrielle Wang’s Blog	http://www.gabriellewang.com/archives/how-writers-work-ian-irvine-guest-post/#more-4295	How writers work
June 6, 2011	Ian Irvine	http://bloggingwithianirvine.blogspot.com/	Introducing the Calamitous Queen blog tour
June 7, 2011	Nords Wharf Public School	https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/blog/437508-nordswharfschoollibraryboard/	Questions from students
June 8, 2011	Susan Stephenson, The Book Chook	http://www.thebookchook.com	Literacy and writing
June 9, 2011	Catriona Hoy	http://catrionahoy.blogspot.com/	Humour and writing
June 10, 2011	Kid’s Book Capers – Dee White	http://content.boomerangbooks.com.au/kids-book-capers-blog/	Review of book and interview
June 11, 2011	Sally Murphy	http://www.sallymurphy.blogspot.com	The exciting (or otherwise) life of a writer
June 12, 2001	Claire Saxby	http://www.letshavewords.blogspot.com	FFF(fun, fantasy, fiction): mix and stire (or how it all comes together)
June 13, 2011	Alison Reynolds	http://www.alisonreynolds.com.au/	Why Ian wrote this book
June 14, 2011	Dee White (deescribewriting blog)Tuesday Writing Tips	http://deescribewriting.wordpress.com	Tips on how to finish a series
15 June 2011	St Joseph’s Primary School	http://stjyear52011.blogspot.com	Questions from students
16 June 2011	Sheryl Gwyther	http://sherylgwyther4kids.wordpress.com	The 10 Best Things about writing 'Grim and Grimmer' + Things that Almost Drove You Nuts!
17 June 2011	Braemar College, Christine Wilson	http://cawilsontl.edublogs.org/virtural-blog-tour/	Questions from students
18 June, 2011	Writing Children's Books with Robyn Opie	http://www.robynopie.blogspot.com	The How-to's of Writing a Series
19 June 2011	Angela Sunde	http://angelasunde.blogspot.com/	Where Ian's ideas for the series came from and how he knew there would be four books in it