Sarah Brennan Funny & Fabulous Blog

Hear me chatting to Sarah Passmore on RTHK today!

Here’s the link if you’d like to hear me rabbitting on to Sarah Passmore about the Dirty Stories on RTHK3 today! I had a lot of fun!

http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=/naked_lunch&d=2010-09-22&p=3189&e=117251&m=episode

Wow – what a response!

Wow! We’ve had such a brilliant response to our Dirty Party Invitation that Bookazine has just run out of room! So sadly we’ve had to close the registration list. If you’re coming already – that’s wonderful – we’ll see you there! But if you haven’t registered, please don’t worry – you are most certainly invited to the next party, and I’ll post lots of photos on my blog of the event on Saturday. And remember…Keep it Neat – Don’t be a Grot!

Let’s EXAGGERATE!

Do you like BIG words? Well, go to my Wicked Word page for the BIGGEST, BEST, MOST AMAZING, MOST MAGNIFICENT word in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE!! (Just kidding!)

5..4..3..2..1….Just 5 days to go to the Dirtiest Party in Town!

Don’t forget to register today for the Dirtiest Party in Town this Saturday at Bookazine, Princes Building in Central! Just click on the following link:

http://bookazine.ilinksys.com/reminder_1_sep10/sep2010_edm.html

and click on the RSVP! Can’t wait to see you there!

The CDNIS kids are going for gold!

Wow- I just received 16 entries into my Laugh Out Loud Limerick competition from the Canadian International School over the last three days! So the challenge is on! Are you going to let CDNIS scoop the prizes or are you going to send in an entry from YOUR school? Quick, get that pen out and write a funny limerick NOW!! Don’t forget to send it to me at sarah@auspicioustimes.com!

A DIRTY INVITATION!!

Hey there all you Ghastly Grots and Nifty Neats!

Here’s your OFFICIAL INVITATION to the DIRTIEST PARTY IN TOWN! Just click on the link below for all the details, and make sure you register to receive a free helium balloon at the party! Andf if you come dressed as your favourite Neat or Grot, you can enter our Dirty Costume Competition for some fabulous prizes!

http://bookazine.ilinksys.com/reminder_1_sep10/sep2010_edm.html

So what kind of animal are you?

Are you a terrific Tiger or a respectable Rabbit or a practically perfect Pig?

It all depends on the year when you were born!

Visit my new Chinese Calendar Animals page on my About Page to find out exactly what kind of animal you really are!

A Cowardly Wicked Word…

Do you know someone really cowardly, who won’t be brave even when it’s the right thing to do? Go to my Wicked Word page immediately if you want a great new word to describe them!!

You’re never too young to be published!

How old do you have to be to be published? This is a question that I often hear from kids. Many of you would love to have your stories published, but you’d rather not wait for another twenty years!

So I’ve done a bit of research and – guess what? The youngest person to ever have a book published was …

FOUR YEARS OLD!!

Her name was Dorothy Straight. She was born in Washington DC (the capital of the United States of America) in 1958, and when she was just four and in pre-kindergarten, she wrote and illustrated a picture book called ” How the World Began” for her grandma. Her mum and dad thought it was good enough to be published…and it was! They sent it to Pantheon Books (a part of huge US publishers Random House)  who published it two years later in 1964.

And boys haven’t done too badly either!

The youngest published boy was Dennis Vollmer, born in Oklahoma in the United States in 1980, who wrote and illustrated a wonderful story about a stranded whale called “Joshua Disobeys” when he was just six years old, which was published by Landmark Editions in 1988.

At the other end of the scale, the oldest person who was ever published for the first time was Argentina Brunetti, an actress who was born in 1907 in Buenos Aires in Argentina (surprise, surprise!) and who had her first novel published at the grand old age of 98 just before she died in 2005!

Which all goes to prove that you’re never too young to be published, and you’re never too old either!

So get writing all of you – no excuses!! And you can start by entering my Laugh Out Loud Limerick Competition RIGHT NOW!

My new Laugh-Out-Loud Limerick competition starts TODAY!

If you’re a bit of a joker, or love playing with words and rhymes, or if you’ve ever laughed out loud at a silly limerick, this is the competition for you! Go to my Competition Page to find out what you have to do this month to win a signed copy of one of my books!