Thanks so much to Natasha Worswick on her Bookish Bites blog for the great photos and recipes inspired by my Princess Spaghetti books with Gillian Rogerson!


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Whatever you think of it's status as fine art, there's always something rather wonderful about a ship in a bottle. I passed this giant version on the plinth on Trafalgar Square yesterday evening.


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Here's a peek at another character study for one of my pirates in You Can't Eat a Princess!, tacked to the studio wall. Except I forgot to bring my camera leads this morning, so I've been messing around with something called 'Photo Booth' on my computer to get the shot, so sorry it looks a bit grainy. Try to think of it as salty sea spray, that's ( Read more... )

We had some friends come over for dinner this evening and I tried my first-ever reading of the printed-up version of You Can't Scare a Princess! with their daughter, Ari. She was not convinced by my pirate voices.


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This morning I went into the Scholastic offices to interview publisher Alison Green for Ireland's Inis magazine, and the production team I've been working with had a surprise!


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Look what I found for 50p at Deptford Market yesterday! Isn't he a lovely chap? He sat all afternoon on the edge of my laptop, gazing serenely at me. I have named him Marcus and I am hoping he will be my storybook good luck cat.


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Another one from the childhood photos I dug up on my recent visit to the States. Proof of past princessing.


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Two exciting things happened this week! First, I got a parcel from Scholastic with the brand-new US edition of You Can't Eat a Princess!. Hurrah! This version is almost exactly the same as the UK edition, except it's slightly taller and narrower. I'm glad they kept the UK front cover, I'm rather fond of that one.


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Hurrah! I finally met Gillian Rogerson, writer of our book You Can't Eat a Princess!


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What a fabulous surprise! Look what arrived today in the post from the writer of You Can't Eat a Princess!, Gillian Rogerson! Aliens! Handmade aliens! And chocolate! (That's in case they got held up in the post, so they wouldn't starve. As everyone knows, aliens LOVE chocolate.)


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