To recap from Part 1 (of my ambitious and epic blog trilogy) what a publisher traditionally does for a writer is: first, they take that story on. That approval is, in itself, a recognition that the story is of a reasonable quality. Then they hone it into something they can sell, produce the printed matter and distribute it to…
The Stand and Deliver seminar and bad news from Mercier Press.
The issue of what, and more importantly how children will read in the future is a battle – not just for hearts and minds, but also for attention spans. In this, the second of this three-part post, I’ll outline how I believe this change in reading will shape publishing as we know it, and how those of us working…
The new Mad Grandad book and the latest on my events.
I’m going to post this in three parts – blogging is meant to be an exercise in short, sharp writing and I’m tackling a complicated issue. That brevity in writing will be part of what I want to talk about. In this post, I’d like to put forward an outline of what publishing has been up until now, and…
The Kelloggs Storytime Launch, in association with Hughes & Hughes and the O’Brien Press.
So the illustrations for ‘Mad Grandad’s Doppelganger’ are done. Actually, they’ve been done for a couple of weeks, but it’s taken me that long to get round to this post. I was hard up against the deadline and it involved a lot of late nights – not helped by a lovely one-year-old who has developed a nasty habit of…
The spectacle of ‘Avatar’, a steampunk ‘Sherlock Holmes’, the bizarre imaginations of Jeunet et Caro, and a very fitting prequel to the ‘Mortal Engines Quartet’.