Jason Bradbury

Atomic Swarm is in shops now! To celebrate its arrival, you can come and meet me and the Dot Robots on my book tour - I’ll be posting new venues & dates for signings as they come up but the latest are here. You can buy the books (and leave your reviews!!!) at Waterstones, Puffin, Play, Amazon. The official Dot Robot website has been upgraded - check out doyouknowanysecrets.com (Can you find the secret link? Can you beat the hidden game?)

Wow! A breathtaking week of book signings and Robot performances is over. The launch of Dot Robot: Atomic Swarm was intense! A sold out show at South Bank Centre, newspaper, TV, radio & magazine interviews & four crazy signings all around London. All I can say is THANK YOU to everyone who joined me for real and virtually on Twitter/Facebook/Blog. And ENJOY READING THE BOKS to those of you who have bought copies this week. Dot Robot: Atomic Swarm is finally here!!! But this is just the beginning of a year’s worth of events that I’ll be tweeting & blogging about. So, stay tuned!

All the info you need to enter the online world of my Dot Robot Books and buy them is HERE.

*** MEET JASON THIS HALF-TERM -  18th, 19th & 20th FEBRUARY ***

Tickets are selling fast for my Dot Robot Roadshow event at London’s South Bank Centre (18th Feb) this half term. For more info and to buy tickets to the one-hour show featuring a live robot race & readings from my new children’s book click here.

And there are more books signings during half-term (18th, 19th, 20th Feb) at Waterstones in Milton Keynes, Basingstoke, Reading & Thurrock

All the times and dates you need to know are here.

THIS OFFER IS NOW OVER! CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS. BIG THANKS TO ALL WHO MADE CONTACT!

It started when I mentioned all my Twitter followers in the ‘Acknowledgment’ section of my new book, Atomic Swarm. Now I’ve got a pile of fresh, new copies, it’s only fair that I give as many of you as possible a FREE personalised signed copy!!! Just do the following & keep your fingers crossed you are chosen:

It started when I mentioned all my Twitter followers in the ‘Acknowledgment’ section of my new book, Atomic Swarm. Now I’ve got a pile of fresh, new copies, it’s only fair that I give as many of you as possible a FREE personalised signed copy!!! Just do the following & keep your fingers crossed you are chosen:

• Send me an email (see ‘About’ tab above for my addy
• Use only ‘Atomic Swarm’ as the Subject
• Tell me if you want Atomic Swarm or Dot Robot (the first in the series)
• Include your Twitter name (if you’re not on Twitter, why? But hey, no probs! x) & your dedication name & your postal address (your details will not be passed on to anyone!)
• THAT’S ALL! If you want to help me get the word out then, great - Tweet about Atomic Swarm, RT my tweets, blog it, email your reading friends, use #AtomicSwarm, review it on Waterstones or Amazon, social network the heck out of it - that would all be awesome. But you don’t have to! I’m giving my book away free because I dig it and I dig u! x

THIS OFFER IS NOW OVER! CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS. BIG THANKS TO ALL WHO MADE CONTACT!

‘… that means all of you who have (read Dot Robot) and have been to the Dot Robot Roadshow events… and my followers on Twitter - you all make it worthwile.’

Is that you? Do you recognise yourself in there? (even if you don’t, and you think you deserve a free copy stay tuned)

I’ll post the details of how to win my little Atomic Swarm lottery, as soon as I’ve decided them, on Twitter. So, check back here real soon!!!

To learn all about the Dot Robot books, my schools and festivals visits and crazy Dot Robot goings on, try here.To buy the books, try Puffin, Waterstones, Play or Amazon (I’ll update with Atomic Swarm urls very soon.) The books’ official site is doyouknowanysecrets.com (can you find the secret link?)

I’m taking my Dot Robot books on the road. The first few dates for my 2010 Dot Robot Roadshow are in, so come and get your books signed, see some robots, win some prizes and hear me read from the second book in the Dot Robot series, Atomic Swarm.

Tuesday 2^nd Feb (6.45pm) Bristol. Bristol Grammar School. For info & tickets check out ‘An Evening with Jason Bradbury’ here.

Thursday 18^th Feb (11.30am) London. Imagine Children’s Festival, South Bank Centre, Purcell Room. Billed as ‘the UK’s brightest children’s festival’ I’ll be bouncing around the Purcell Room with robots, readings and gadgets galore. Read about my event and the rest of this exciting children’s festival.

Thursday 18^th Feb (3.30pm) Milton Keynes

Waterstone’s Milton Keynes, Midsummer Place MK9 3GA.

Appearance and book signing.

Friday 19^th Feb (12 noon) Basingstoke

Waterstone’s Basingstoke, Festival Place Shopping Centre RG21 7BE

Appearance and book signing.

Friday 19^th Feb (3.30pm) Reading

Waterstone’s Reading, The Oracle RG1 2AQ

Appearance and book signing.

Saturday 20^th Feb (1pm) Thurrock

Waterstones Lakeside Shopping Centre, West Thurrock, Grays, Essex RM20 2ZG

Appearance and book signing.

More dates coming soon! For more info about Dot Robot and for pics of some of the festivals and schools I’ve already visited with the Dot Robot Roadshow click here.

I find the majority of articles discussing the shape of Apple’s ‘latest creation’, frustrating. What bugs me is their collective lack of commitment and their constant need to apologise for being part of the hype around what will be the world’s first, full-colour digital e-reader. Let me place my neck squarely on the block and predict the most important dimension of the next Wednesday’s launch: it will change publishing, forever. Yep, it’s a multi-touch tablet that will play music and movies and apps and propose an initially frustrating on-screen keyboard solution, which will ultimately prove blissfully easy to use – but the real news, the point that needs making, is that the device, which will certainly not be called iSlate, will lead to a complete overhaul of how most of us read.

This quantum shift in the way we read newspapers, magazines and books won’t happen overnight – just as the music industry didn’t embrace iTunes’ seminal solution to the problem of making money from digital pop - but it will always be perceived as the beginning of reading, post printing press.

I have it on good authority that several major UK newspapers have been approached to format their publications for ‘a tablet device’. And as an author with my own book available in digital format, I can tell you that publishers and authors know that a move to the next phase of publishing is long overdue. But my main reason for focussing on the e-reader part of the new tablet equation, is that as a race of word hungry wretches, we’re all crying out for someone with Apple’s clout to push us to the next and inevitable rung on the reading ladder. Whether we realise it or not, the option to download any book, any newspaper or magazine from any year, month or day, in full colour, in an instant, is as inevitable as the death of the combustion engine.

For some sage commentary on Apple’s latest offering I recommend following @claudineb (Technology Editor for The Telegraph) who will be at the launch in San Francisco next Wednesday.

Dot Robot at the Edinburgh Festival. Great bunch of kids. Great Festival. I can’t imagine an author ever gets bored of seeing their books in a really big display! And in the week I handed in the final draft of Dot Robot: Atomic Swarm. A magic few days. Only hitch was robot Punk getting turned away at baggage check - they thought he might be a bomb! He ended up freezing his spikes off in the hold of the plane. Poor Punk.

Find Dot Robot at Puffin, Waterstones, Borders, Play or Amazon. You can read about all things Dot Robot on this blog here.

Thanks to Chris Close for the brilliant Edinburgh Book Festival picture he took of me & Robonova in around five minutes - outside!

It all started when I was sent a snazzy HD phone to review (Samsung i8910 HD). The kind people that sent me it didn’t want it back (madness!) so I crowdsourced an idea on Twitter to give it away! The idea we came up with was #ZombiePhone. I tweeted ‘Win my new phone by snapping an undead u and ur old dead phone’. The reaction was mind blowing! Hundreds of zombies tweeted in - far too many for me to reply to. I’ll post the winning pick.. er.. when I’ve picked it! (think I’ll add some copies of Dot Robot for the runners up!)

Image care of @lrv94

Yep, that’s me, threading a needle, using DaVinci, one of the world’s most advanced surgical robots. With Suzi at the helm we filmed a game of Operation with DaVinci, then I had a go. ‘I’ll start you on something easy,’ said Omar, DaVinci’s surgeon operator. ‘You can thread a needle!’. I asked the photographer to include a five pence piece, so you can see just how small DaVinci’s hands are. During the week we filmed for The Gadget Show, DaVinci & Omar performed five operations on real people!