I had the rare priviledge of meeting one of my all-time writing heroes last week. I have admired Philip Reeve’s work for a number of years now and have been itching for the chance to meet him. Anyone who has been present at one of my school visits where I’ve been asked what my favourite [...]
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The Happy Couple!
I dedicate this image to the happy couple on their Big Day, and our future King and Queen. May your lives together be full of joy, wisdom and strategically placed snails.
More great reads…
One of the great things about having given up flying to become a writer is that I now get to meet lots of other writers and they’re a super bunch of people. I recently did an event in London with this guy… Justin Somper and I had met some years before at the London Final [...]
More Tree Please!
Due to popular demand I’m posting a few more tree sketches…um… (fidget)…well, okay then, no one asked me…I just find myself sitting here thinking what to post so I grabbed my sketchbook and thought, yep, more trees! And, in an effort to link this post to the whole Trapped By Monsters theme – here’s a [...]
Ghosts that haunt me…
If you check my biog on my website (www.davidgatward.com) you’ll find it mentions something about my having seen two ghosts. Thinking about it, it should probably say three, but lets not worry about that; ghosts are ghosts. Or are they? I’ve not the faintest idea what it was that I saw. Yes, I can tell [...]
Making a Beast of Myself.
OK, following on from David’s post, I couldn’t resist. Here’s me doing my impression of a raptor!
WARNING: Vicious gizzards!
I was reading about chicken gizzards earlier while researching a particularly disgusting project when I came across something truly horrifying. All birds have gizzards (a sort of stomach with a thick lining), as do some fish. So far, so non-horrifying. Well, here’s the terrible bit. Hold on to your hat (or clutch your ears if [...]
Haunted Hotels!
Last month I was let out of the dank, miserable, armpit-scented caves to tour around the country promoting Furnace 5. It was brilliant to be able to breathe air that hadn’t been filtered through Barfdribble Undergunk’s digestive system, and to stretch my legs after so long cowering in the corner of my cell. But on [...]
