Just back from the Oxford University Press sales conference, where I was talking about Railhead, and also about the new Reeve and McIntyre book, which will be called...
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| Sarah McIntyre |
It's an everyday story of two children and a team of sixty-son a race to the North Pole, and I think it's going to be pug-tastic. The basic idea was Sarah's, and we came up with the story together, as usual. Here's the back cover...
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| Sarah McIntyre |
If you pop over to McIntyre's blog you can see some of the lovely interior artwork, which she's busy working on as we speak. The pugs will be arriving at a bookshop near you this September.
As for Railhead, the cover is still a SECRET, but I read a bit, and it seemed to go down well...
There's lots of other good stuff on the OUP list for this autumn. I particularly liked the look of SUPER HAPPY MAGIC FOREST, by Matty Long. It's a sort of picture-book fantasy quest parody, a full of elaborate, joke-packed pictures like this...
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| Matty Long |
And I also found that Matty Long has drawn a Mortal Engines picture!
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| Matty Long |
3 comments:
Great Mortal Engines picture. Makes me yearn to return to that world.
Very excited about Railhead, you tease ;-)
Pugs! Oh my goodness, they are adorable.
They are, aren't they? And sorry Tim - there's nothing railhead-y ready to show yet, but I hope to have cover designs (and proof copies) in a couple more months.
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