[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-adventuremice-at-marlborough-lit-fest-2024":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Ci>\u003C/i>I was excited when I found out my co-author \u003Cb>Philip Reeve\u003C/b> and I would get to do our Adventuremice event for \u003Ca href=\"https://www.marlboroughlitfest.org/\">Marlborough Lit Fest\u003C/a> in their fancy main room at the Town Hall! Here's an ace photo by official festival photographer \u003Ca href=\"https://bphillips.co.uk/\">Ben Phillips\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1346950_original-6bcd3d7c68.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Phillips Photography.jpg\" title=\"Ben Phillips Photography.jpg\" width=\"550\">\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more under the cut!-->\\r\nI wanted to look my best and Disaster Struck, oh no! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1347264_original-d2f4b190b1.jpg\" alt=\"shoe_tweet_lj.jpg\" title=\"shoe_tweet_lj.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBut when I plodded into the author lounge in my dress, hat and bog-standard trainers, I was greatly cheered to find top actor \u003Cb>Simon Russell Beale\u003C/b>, whom it turns out is a Patron of the festival! I babbled on about how much I love \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Stalin\">The Death of Stalin\u003C/a>\u003C/i> (it realy IS a brilliant film, and he's smashing as Beria) and how Stuart and I went to see him in Tom Stoppard's \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpers_(play)\">Jumpers\u003C/a>\u003C/i>, etc, and he was very nice about it and still took a photo with me. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1348693_original-0eda1e89dd.jpg\" alt=\"Marlb24_SimonRussellBeale.jpg\" title=\"Marlb24_SimonRussellBeale.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThen Philip and I got down to work. One of the great things about doing events with a co-author who is also an illustrator is that is SUCH a great help when we need to draw something quickly. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://x.com/davinahjones/status/1840331292065341616\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1348022_original-9b578d34ab.jpg\" alt=\"Marlb24_drawingtweet.jpg\" title=\"Marlb24_drawingtweet.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nI thought Philip's five-minute drawing of Marlborough Town Hall with a flipchart marker and a blue highlighter came out smashingly.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1348434_original-74b8682d65.jpg\" alt=\"Marlb24_Philipdrawing.jpg\" title=\"Marlb24_Philipdrawing.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHuge thanks to everyone who came along and drew pictures with us of Pedro and Captain Cheesebeard! They're characters from the new book in our series, \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Adventuremice: The Ghostly Galleon\u003C/b>\u003C/i>. (Feel free to visits our website \u003Ca href=\"https://www.adventuremice.com/draw-make\">Adventuremice.com\u003C/a> for more drawing activities!)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1347776_original-58a30b92fc.jpg\" alt=\"Marlb24_drawings.jpg\" title=\"Marlb24_drawings.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe popped into beautiful \u003Ca href=\"https://www.whitehorsebooks.co.uk\">White Horse Bookshop\u003C/a> to say hello to \u003Cb>Angus\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Debbie\u003C/b> and have a nose around. Thank you for coordinating our book sales, White Horse team! \\r\n\\r\nAnd huge thanks to the tech team, sponsors (including \u003Ca href=\"https://www.stfpewsey.co.uk/\">St Francis School in Pewsey\u003C/a>, who sponsored our event!) and organisers who made everything run so smoothly and elegantly, including \u003Cb>Elaine James\u003C/b> who fielded many emails (including back and forth in remote Alaska, when she thought I might be asking her to pay my way over from Alaska) and (pictured magnificently here) \u003Cb>Kate Fry\u003C/b>. Well done, Team Marlborough!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1348268_original-090b69f747.jpg\" alt=\"Marlb24_KateFry.jpg\" title=\"Marlb24_KateFry.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd thanks to our team at \u003Cb>David Fickling Books - Fraser Hutchinson\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Sadie Nathan\u003C/b> - who did a lot of liasing for us! \\r\n\\r\nPS About the shoe disaster, I saw photos later and realised they sympathetically cut off my feet anyway, so \u003Ci>let's just pretend that never happened\u003C/i>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://x.com/BexBookaholic/status/1840340496394166460\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1347487_original-e19bc1c8e0.jpg\" alt=\"bex_tweet_lj.jpg\" title=\"bex_tweet_lj.jpg\">\u003C/a>","2024-10-04T11:30:00.000Z","adventuremice-at-marlborough-lit-fest-2024",[],"Adventuremice at Marlborough Lit Fest 2024",1776628731985]