Ta-daaaa!
Today my lovely editor at Walker Books Australia sent me the final cover for Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot! I love it. Keep reading →
Blogging and optimism
Further to ruminating about the false intellectualisation of pessimism, I have been reading a collection of very short essays called What Are You Optimistic About, edited by John Brockman. Keep reading →
Fan mail
This morning I read something I relate to absolutely 100%. It was written in 1943 by the (irrelevantly rather beautiful) American critic Dorothy Parker about a comic strip called Barnaby. Keep reading →
Sanity and things
The cover for Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot is very nearly done now. I saw an almost-final-version yesterday and I think it's beautiful! I hope it won't be very long at all now before I can post it here. Keep reading →
