Cat flaps

So here I am, still feeling like one of the characters in Basil and the Flappy Thing as Kryten still refuses to use the cat flap, even today when I don't think it's stopped raining all day. He knows it's there, he uses it if I hold it open for him, but that wasn't really the idea...

new book

Basill and the Flappy Thing is now published and out there to entertain - Some have been given away, some were ordered and are now displayed on the shelves of a bookshop and some have even been sold!

...and the rest, well they form my stock of books waiting to go out to new homes to be loved and cherished.

Multi tasking

Doesn't time fly when you're lost in a book... I've spent the last few months getting my head down and focusing on getting my next book out, and the result is Basil and the Flappy Thing which will be out in the Autumn. Although it is a work of fiction, it was inspired by all my cats in some way, and I'm afraid it may be inspiring my cats to get up to more mischief, as one of the things in the book was only acted out in real life after I'd drawn the picture and written about the incident... I'd better be careful what I write and draw in future in case I give them ideas.

Pen and paper

My writing has gone back to basics lately - using pen and paper. It make s a nice change to write with a pen in a notebook, but it wasn't nostalgia for paper that sent me back to basics it was a litter of kittens... there's nothing like turning a computer on to wake up sleepy kittens and send them wandering across a keyboard or getting into places they shouldn't, making me jump up from the keyboard to overt a disaster.

I've often debated the role of a cat, whether they inspire or distract, and I'm still going with inspire. And when they stop distracting me I'll get all those notes, written while they walked across the page - or even chewed it, and I'll turn it into a book - but right now Bumble is sitting on the tumble dryer and eyeing up where he can jump next for maximum mischief...