I've been a fan for some time of the work of comics creator Marc Ellerby, so I was very glad for an invitation to visit him at work! He set up a children's event at his Waterstone's shop in Lakeside shopping centre and we had a You Can't Eat a Princess! Aliens Party.


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Today the Space Princess lands at Paddington Children's Library at 2:30. I hope I'm hovering over the right planet (looks like Earth, but there seems to be a slight pinkish haze). Space Hop request permission to land.


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I've never been so shocked, when we were in Stratford-upon-Avon, our book's publicist, Alex Richardson, stole a sheep! She ran right down the road with it, tucked under her arm. After we spent a night in the Stratford-upon-Avon house of detention, we promised the local constabulary that we'd spend the rest of the weekend leading workshops and ( Read more... )

I've come up with a party pack to go along with my new book with Gillian Rogerson, You Can't Eat a Princess, and I even took it to a party to test drive it! And it worked brilliantly!

You can download all the sheets from my website.
Here are the invitations you can print out, and a party pack sheet with loads of party ideas:

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And the winner is... Kelsey Masterton!!!


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And the inhabitants were friendly! Stuart and I headed up to Scotland for our first-ever visit to the Highlands International Comics Expo or Hi-Ex. It was also Stuart's first experience of running a festival table, and I think he's still decompressing from the strange voyage.

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On Sunday night, Alex Richardson (my fab Scholastic publicist) and I took the train to Leicester to met up with fellow maker of book magic Lizzie Finlay. We had an excellent curry dinner with two comics friends, Selina Lock and Jay Eales and Lizzie's cousin, then spent all of Monday at the Leicester Tigers Rugby Club with 800 enthusiastic Leicester ( Read more... )

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Here's one of my first drawings of the princess and aliens in You Can't Eat a Princess!. I was watching Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette film and drooling over all the cakes and dresses. My princess changed a lot but the aliens, not so much.


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