Adventuremice at Marlborough Lit Fest 2024
I was excited when I found out my co-author Philip Reeve and I would get to do our Adventuremice event for Marlborough Lit Fest in their fancy main room at the Town Hall! Here's an ace photo by official festival photographer Ben Phillips:
I wanted to look my best and Disaster Struck, oh no!
But when I plodded into the author lounge in my dress, hat and bog-standard trainers, I was greatly cheered to find top actor Simon Russell Beale, whom it turns out is a Patron of the festival! I babbled on about how much I love The Death of Stalin (it realy IS a brilliant film, and he's smashing as Beria) and how Stuart and I went to see him in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, etc, and he was very nice about it and still took a photo with me.
Then Philip and I got down to work. One of the great things about doing events with a co-author who is also an illustrator is that is SUCH a great help when we need to draw something quickly.
I thought Philip's five-minute drawing of Marlborough Town Hall with a flipchart marker and a blue highlighter came out smashingly.
Huge thanks to everyone who came along and drew pictures with us of Pedro and Captain Cheesebeard! They're characters from the new book in our series, Adventuremice: The Ghostly Galleon. (Feel free to visits our website Adventuremice.com for more drawing activities!)
We popped into beautiful White Horse Bookshop to say hello to Angus and Debbie and have a nose around. Thank you for coordinating our book sales, White Horse team!
And huge thanks to the tech team, sponsors (including St Francis School in Pewsey, who sponsored our event!) and organisers who made everything run so smoothly and elegantly, including Elaine James who fielded many emails (including back and forth in remote Alaska, when she thought I might be asking her to pay my way over from Alaska) and (pictured magnificently here) Kate Fry. Well done, Team Marlborough!
And thanks to our team at David Fickling Books - Fraser Hutchinson and Sadie Nathan - who did a lot of liasing for us!
PS About the shoe disaster, I saw photos later and realised they sympathetically cut off my feet anyway, so let's just pretend that never happened.
I wanted to look my best and Disaster Struck, oh no!
But when I plodded into the author lounge in my dress, hat and bog-standard trainers, I was greatly cheered to find top actor Simon Russell Beale, whom it turns out is a Patron of the festival! I babbled on about how much I love The Death of Stalin (it realy IS a brilliant film, and he's smashing as Beria) and how Stuart and I went to see him in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, etc, and he was very nice about it and still took a photo with me.
Then Philip and I got down to work. One of the great things about doing events with a co-author who is also an illustrator is that is SUCH a great help when we need to draw something quickly.
I thought Philip's five-minute drawing of Marlborough Town Hall with a flipchart marker and a blue highlighter came out smashingly.
Huge thanks to everyone who came along and drew pictures with us of Pedro and Captain Cheesebeard! They're characters from the new book in our series, Adventuremice: The Ghostly Galleon. (Feel free to visits our website Adventuremice.com for more drawing activities!)
We popped into beautiful White Horse Bookshop to say hello to Angus and Debbie and have a nose around. Thank you for coordinating our book sales, White Horse team!
And huge thanks to the tech team, sponsors (including St Francis School in Pewsey, who sponsored our event!) and organisers who made everything run so smoothly and elegantly, including Elaine James who fielded many emails (including back and forth in remote Alaska, when she thought I might be asking her to pay my way over from Alaska) and (pictured magnificently here) Kate Fry. Well done, Team Marlborough!
And thanks to our team at David Fickling Books - Fraser Hutchinson and Sadie Nathan - who did a lot of liasing for us!
PS About the shoe disaster, I saw photos later and realised they sympathetically cut off my feet anyway, so let's just pretend that never happened.