From TBM guest blogger, John Dougherty…
Dear captive authors
Just came across the TBM website. Bad luck! It must be a bit miserable being trapped by monsters.
Have you tried getting in touch with a Monster Investigator? The best I know of are Jack Slater, Monster Investigator and his partner Cherry Jackson, but if you can’t manage to contact them I suppose you could try the Ministry of Monsters. The email address is top secret – as is the whole Ministry – but I happened to come across it while researching my books about Jack and Cherry, and I think your circumstances are probably exceptional, so here it is: deleted for reasons of@national security.gov.uk
Be warned, though; the Minister’s just a kid, and a particularly snotty and spoiled one. Really. His expense forms have to be seen to be believed: so far this year he’s claimed for a rubber duck island; he’s paid his own mum £8,000 of public money for taxi services; he’s claimed £400 on sweets and ice cream without producing a single receipt; he’s charged for 2 Barney videos downloaded by his little sister; and of course he’s flipped his second treehouse allowance four times. But since the Ministry’s a secret, it’ll never get in the papers.
Anyway, let me know how you get on. Maybe you could post any replies on the blog?
Best of luck, and hope to see you and the others out in the sunshine again soon.
John Dougherty
05/06/2009 at 7:32 pm Permalink
Well these ideas are all well and good, John, but you have to understand that our blogs, emails and occasional author visits are all closely monitored by our monster captors – it’s not that easy! It may be worth a try, but if we get a limb chewed off as a result, we’ll hold you responsible… (See what happened to Tommy when he was a bit cheeky before being allowed out to write a story in the woods on his Neo?!).
Appreciate your kind concern, nonetheless…