It's great getting feedback after a book festival event...


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On Sunday, my Adventuremice co-author Philip Reeve and I were to be found in Bath, decorating the windows of Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights.


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There's this red chair at Bath Kids Lit Fest where it's absolutely obligatory for writers and illustrators to get their photos taken. Only one person can fit in the chair at a time but somehow we managed to fit in another spindly co-author and a roly-poly flying pony who was completely oblivious to my sacrifice.


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This weekend was Seawigs BATH TIME! The Sea Monkeys thought this was a great thing, but Iris the mermaid wasn't so sure:


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Hey, I have an article about comics in The Telegraph! It's all part of my Evil Scheme to make Britain a world leader in comics and get all our kids reading and making their own books.

MWAH HA HA! *strokes wig-wearing hairless cat*


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Back from the Bath Festival of Children's Literature! The two people who made this trip such a good laugh were nutty writer Steve Cole and Scholastic's Fiz Osborne, who usually stays in the office as an editor, but made her first official festival trip with me in a publicist kind of role, just for a change. She's a great mix of being totally on top ( Read more... )

One of the DFC's publicists, Louise Stothard, just sent along this photo of our panel (the Etheringtons, John Aggs, me and David Fickling) at the Bath kids lit fest, and another one with a glimpse of the venue in Guildhall and its ceiling bling. To read Lorenzo Etherington's account and see a few more event pics, click here!
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We had good fun at our comics panel for the DFC at the Bath kids lit fest on Saturday. Here's Bob Etherington (writer of Monkey Nuts) basking in the joy of the liquorice allsorts jar and lava lamp luxury of the VIP lounge. Apparently comics people don't usually get VIP lounges, so we thought we'd better document it.

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