Via TBM guest blogger, John Dougherty…

Not knowing where the eight authors were being held prisoner, I figured the best way of finding them was to go through the monster underworld.

This isn’t easy to do, but fortunately Cherry and I have Bernard on our side. Bernard’s a monster, but he’s one of the good guys – and my best informant in the monster underworld.  He also makes a great guide. If you follow a monster who knows where he’s going, you can go under the bed, through the monster underworld, and out from under any other bed in the world.

That was where I hit my first problem. It turned out the monsters hadn’t given the authors any beds. And it’s just not possible for a monster to come out from under a bed that isn’t there.

There was only one thing to do – get the authors to write the monsters some bedtime stories.

The plan worked perfectly. After several nights of hastily-written bedtime stories for monsters, it wasn’t hard for the authors to convince their captors that it’s so much nicer to listen to a bedtime story if you’re actually in bed. And to cap it all, Tommy D artfully suggested that having to put a flat-pack bed together would be a great punishment for an author who hadn’t been writing exactly what the monsters wanted to hear.

So before long, all the monsters were tucked up in their very own beds, each in turn listening to their very own bedtime story written by their very own captive author. And after a few nights of this, it was time to put the next part of the plan into action.

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