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Ok, so maybe it was a bit foolish to go exploring the caves without the proper equipment. I only wanted to see if I could spot some of the monsters described in the Acme Monster Book of Monster Spotting I got given last Christmas. Look what they’ve done to me. LOOK. I shall be writing [...]
A Terrifying Moment
It’s horrible, I tell you. Horrible. As if things weren’t scary enough in here already, THIS turned up. Look at its eyes (now that it’s taken off its scary shades). This creature has death and diabolism in its fearsome gaze. Also, it isn’t cavetrained yet, so the smell is not improving. It claims to be [...]
Sketchbook
I like to keep a seperate sketchbook for each book title I do. This page shows the character Magpie from the picture book The Ghost Library.
Dust Devil (with olives)
Here’s a small house monster I caught lurking behind my tea cup, and a bit of a nasty start it gave me too. This is a lesson to us all to keep things ship-shape and spick and span, or at least not in direct contravention of statutory hygiene requirements. If you don’t, the bits form [...]
Life outside books
When one of my favourite editors left the publisher I work for a few years ago and I decided to draw this picture as a parting gift. These two critters are Fidget and Quilly (and their pet kitten). Characters that we worked on together for a couple of years. Well, I decided to show them [...]
DON’T LOOK…
…if you’re an arachnophobe. Much screaming in the Sparkes corner of the caves today – not over spiders but a batch of lovely shineeee books containing chapter samples from my new S.W.I.T.C.H. series which arrived by monster post. The series – six parts to start with – doesn’t come out ’til next February and April [...]
Breakfast-Rammellzee
Rammellzee was an influential graffiti artist, hip-hop pioneer and performance artist. He used to make and wear elaborate masks and costumes, like this one. Making an eye-catching costume isn’t as easy at it looks. Here’s a picture of one I made from a Full English Breakfast. I call it Breakfast-Rammellzee, and it isn’t particularly comfortable, [...]
Warming my cold little fingers…
Oooooooh I’ve just received my new cover for FIREBRAND which is coming out on 27th August from those lovely people at Strident Publishing. Here it is. I don’t know why he’s turning his back on that lovely roaring fire, because I know what lit it, and it wasn’t anything nice….
