Last week my co-author Philip Reeve and I travelled from Devon to the BookTastic Bedford Book Festival for a big stage event, and it was brilliant! We got to present the Adventuremice books to children who'd been bused into the University of Bedford and also to children watching from their schools online. And thanks to the generous sponsors, every ( Read more... )

Thank you, Philip Reeve, for writing this blog post about the party at The Bookery in Crediton, celebrating both the start of Indie Bookshop Week AND their tenth anniversary as a shop, with some extra lovely shop and event space! Adventuremice, and a first screening of Gwenevere... read his blog here!


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The next stop on our Adventuremice: Mermouse Mystery tour was Bristol, where my co-author Philip Reeve and I headed to lovely Max Minerva's bookshop! It had expanded (and doubled!) since our last visit and the new premises in Henleaze had a lovely children's area. We got busy painting the window:


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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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Exciting, the second book of our Reeve & McIntyre series launches today, Adventuremice: Mermouse Mystery! As you might have noticed from some of my other books (Grumpycorn, Oliver and the Seawigs, etc), I have a bit of a thing for mermaids. So I was glad the mice could get a chance to encounter their own mini magical kingdom!


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I wanted to see if I could get lots of stages of filming 'Gwenevere' all into one folk-art-style drawing, and finally got a chance to do it: a little bit here, a few minutes there, in the evenings and snatched moments.


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So what did I do on the Coronation Day of King Charles III and Queen Camilla? I rang an ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE BELL!


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The past week was a bit of a blur with all the activity, and I didn't get many chances to take photos. So I'll post this as a series of tweets intead! On Tuesday, my co-author Philip Reeve and I went to the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border to celebrate the winning of a short story competition by a pupil, Gracie Curtis, from Granby Junior School in ( Read more... )

Before I moved to Bovey Tracey last year, while we were still living with the Reeve family in Widecombe, Stuart and I made a trip to the town to see the Green Man Festival. It was pretty amazing and I took lots of photos and made a drawing (which you can see here!). This year I was a bona fide Bovey resident and, not only that, but had a studio ( Read more... )

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