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'TimeRiders' Author Alex Scarrow Wants Books To Be 'Absolute Cocaine' For Kids

First Posted: 07/22/10 11:29 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:10 PM ET

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The Guardian:

If Puffin's marketing department had tried to invent the ideal author profile to appeal to the difficult early-teenage-boy demographic, they couldn't have improved on Alex Scarrow. A former rock musician, graphic artist and computer game designer, who grew up in the Bahamas and looks like a cross between a surfer dude and a Zen monk? With a fantastically piratical name? That should do the trick.

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If Puffin's marketing department had tried to invent the ideal author profile to appeal to the difficult early-teenage-boy demographic, they couldn't have improved on Alex Scarrow. A former rock music...
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raven119
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11:03 AM on 07/23/2010
Just tried to snort a copy of Curious George. Now I've got a monkey on my back.

(I'm performing here all week.)
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midnightwriter
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10:55 PM on 07/22/2010
Cool
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Tails
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03:10 PM on 07/22/2010
Best metaphor ever.
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