I predict a mess...

Yes it's messy time again - now that Outnumbered by Cats is published I'm launching into a new project!

It's another picture book, and the text is already written, so I've got a summer of artwork ahead of me...

Now it's a while since I had my paints out, so things are going to get messy, especially with my little furry helpers... Basil and the Flappy Thing narrowly escaped getting paw prints all over the wet paintings, and that was a book about cats, so I would have sort of got away with it...

January - international Book Month...?

So if we can't have 'Hibernate January' then what about having January as Book Month - it's the ideal month of the year for all things book.

Hopefully you all got a new book for Christmas, and if you didn't then now's the time to run out and buy one, or at least run your fingers over the keyboard to an online bookshop so that one will come winging it's way to you in the post, or even zap one to an ebook reader if you prefer...

It's also the ideal month of the year to get on with writing projects - mine has now reached that tricky point where I need a book cover that will draw attention to my book - they say you should never judge a book by it's cover, but the truth is that the cover is usually the first contact we have with a new book; it's like an advert, it's own little bill board if you like, that grabs the attention of a potential reader. So deny it all you like, but we all do it - if a cover grabs our attention we are more likely to pick a book up and take the next step, which is to read the blurb - another thing I still need to finish.

So that's it I've just reminded myself what I should be doing... and it's not surfing the net..