One minute you’re waking up in the Keio Plaza, one of the poshest hotels in the country, and the next you’re waking up in a capsule in Nagoya! Well it must have been comfortable as I didn’t wake up till 10 AM. The only bad point is that you can’t charge your computer while you…

Spent the morning (trying) to catch up on all my emails. Then in the afternoon it was a meeting with my publisher about the adults series I’m ( supposed ) to be working on!! It just seems this week I’ve been wearing so many hats, with Monday and Tuesday speaking to publishers who want me…

First off were two of the biggest workshops of the year in the Keio Plaza hotel for re-contracting members of the Japan Exchange & Teaching Porgramme. I don’t know what it was today, whether it was the fact that I was taking things a bit more slowly ( after listening to a recording of last…

Recently I’ve been very impressed by the Macmillan Language House stuff, they got a great new readers series ( Springboard) that gets rave reviews, so I finally got the chance today to pop across to their office and see what they have. Now usually I don’t really recommend reading activities, because it takes so long,…

I caught up with Joel Bacha ( the Teacher & Kids author ) this afternoon. We haven’t seen each other for a while and it was good to catch up. Joel has just finished his MA in development, and has spent the last year in Bangladesh, Thailand and Bolivia. Which is of course all tied…

I was getting a bit worried this morning! I usually do the Tokyo Bookstore shows in the store itself. But it tends to draw such a big crowd that people from the other departments start complaining! So this time the event was in a different building. And as what probably should have been expected a…