Mortal Engines Art

I've not been blogging so much this year, what with Goblins 2 to write and lots of school events.  While I've been off the air, as it were, several people have sent me very impressive artwork inspired by Mortal Engines and its world.  I'm aiming to post them here over the coming week, in the order in which they arrived.  First up is my old friend Justin Hill.  Justin's non Mortal Engines related  drawings and photographs can be seen at his Zazzle stores (and he's been posting a lot of brilliant HDR photography on Google+ lately) but these are examples of his digital artwork, loosely inspired by the books, and very atmospheric, I think.  Enjoy!   

                                                                                                                                                  Mortal Engines by  Justin Hill

                                                                                                                                                                    Airship by Justin Hill

LAIKA to film GOBLINS

Here's some news to make a goblin grin: the film company LAIKA have optioned GOBLINS, with a view to turning it into an animated feature.  They do very beautiful stop-motion animation, as you'll know if you've seen their movie version of Neil Gaiman's Coraline (and if you haven't yet, I'd highly recommend it.)  Here's a link to the full press release on LAIKA's website.

And here's the trailer for their forthcoming movie, ParaNorman.

Litopia After Dark

This coming Sunday (April 22nd) I'll be appearing on Litopia After Dark, 'the net's premier live literary salon'.  It will be 50 minutes of free-ranging discussion about books and writing and any other subject that seems interesting, and if you'd like to get involved then you can do so by going to the chat room on the Radio Litopia website while the show is on.  But if you miss the live broadcast, never fear; it will still be available to listen to, and I'll put a link on this blog and/or my website.

A typical Litopia After Dark listener...

Litopia after Dark is produced by Litopia, and goes out live at 8pm GMT (that's 3pm Eastern, 12 noon Pacific if you're listening in the USA).  It would be great if you could listen, and even better if you can find your way to the chat room and join in!

New GOBLINS Game!

To mark the launch of GOBLINS, Scholastic have put together a goblintastic computer game called Goblins: Catapult Wars, which you can play on the Swapit website. If you don't already have a Swapit account you'll need to sign up, but that doesn't take long, and then you'll be able to waste while away hours and hours catapulting boulders, battle-axes and fireballs at a horde of grumpy goblins based on David Semple's cover art from the book.

You may have noticed that this blog (and my website) have had a major spring-clean, thanks to Ian at Graphic Alchemy.  My official Facebook Page has a new look too, but that's nothing to do with me: Facebook have foisted their 'timeline' on me, and so far I'm not impressed: it's cluttered, and I keep missing people's posts and comments.  Partly in response to that, I've asked Ian to switch on the 'comments' function on this blog, so from now on you'll be able to leave comments after each post, should you so wish.  I'll try to respond to all of them, but it may take me a couple of days if I'm busy writing.  And, of course, you can still get in touch with me by e-mail.