2014 - A Year in Pictures (and old blog posts)

2014 has been a busy year. It began with rain and floods here on Dartmoor. I published the third of my Goblins books, and my second book with Sarah McIntyre, Cakes in Space. I visited Dubai , Amsterdam and the Isle of Man. I did loads of events with McIntyre and made a belated and possibly ill-advised move into Glam Rock (we've really enjoyed working with the team at Oxford University Press on this book and our future projects). Meanwhile, my Sarah had a Significant Birthday, and played lots of banjo, mandolin and electric guitar. Sam went Scooter Crazy. Manchester was invaded by sea monkeys. I returned to illustration with Kjartan Poskitt's Borgon the Axeboy. I attended the excellent ArmadaCon, and was invited to help judge the new YA Book Prize. And I finished a new novel, Railhead.

It's been a busy year, and quite a good one for me, but it's been a bit rough for a lot of people I know. Here's hoping 2015 is a marked improvement. Happy New Year!

Sarah McIntyre's Christmas Message to the Nation

Season's Greetings

Right; presents wrapped, halls decked with boughs of holly, and we're just setting off down the N.A. Freeway to  collect our Christmas visitors from the station. So it only remains to wish you all a thoroughly

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

I'll leave you with a sneak peek at some of Sarah McIntyre's snowy work-in-progress for 'Reeve & McIntyre book 3' (Title to be announced in the New Year.)

I hope your festivities don't degenerate into a shouty snowball fight, which is what has happened to these yetis...

Christmas Cakes & Seasonal Seawigs

It's been nice to see Cakes in Space turning up in some of the festive Best Children's Books round-ups. I won't link to them all because that would be Showing Off, but Sarah McIntyre and I both liked this review from 5-year-old Alan on Space on the Bookshelf. And I love the accompanying pictures, which prove - should you be hunting for last minute presents - that Cakes in Space and Oliver and the Seawigs do fit neatly into a Christmas stocking...

                                                                                                                                            Space on the Bookshelf

Space on the Bookshelf also has lots of other good children's book reviews and recommendations, including this piece on comics and graphic novels by Simon Russell.