[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-adventuremice-london-launch-at-daunt-books-festival-2023":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Yesterday my co-author \u003Ca href=\"https://philipreeve.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> and I had our London launch for the first book in our new series - \u003Ca href=\"https://www.adventuremice.com/books/otter-chaos\">\u003Ci>\u003Cb>Adventuremice: Otter Chaos\u003C/b>\u003C/i>\u003C/a> - at gorgeous \u003Ca href=\"https://dauntbooks.co.uk/\">Daunt Books in Marylebone\u003C/a>. We even drew a poster for it! You'll notice that there are quite a few signatures on the bottom: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1227399_original-f17fef033f.jpg\" width=\"550\">\\r\n\\r\nThat's because we had a team, hard at work on it, before the event began! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1227617_original-1cc53bda17.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more photos under the cut!-->\\r\nWe've had quite a few book launches at Daunt Books: you can click through links to see the launches for \u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.livejournal.com/583859.html\">\u003Ci>Oliver and the Seawigs\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.livejournal.com/662460.html\">\u003Ci>Cakes in Space\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.livejournal.com/839103.html\">\u003Ci>Kevin's Great Escape\u003C/i>\u003C/a> and \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Pugs of the Frozen North\u003C/b>\u003C/i> (which I somehow forgot to blog). It's one of the friendliest and most beautiful bookshops in London, so do stop by if you ever pop up at Baker Street tube station. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1227945_original-0938b0dad8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe shop was bustling when we arrived, right in the middle of their \u003Ca href=\"https://dauntbooks.co.uk/festival/daunt-books-festival-2023/\">Daunt Books Festival\u003C/a>, and the shop workers were scurrying about, but Rebecca and Jack looked after us wonderfully... AND our otter.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1228344_original-ed86f9ea10.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHuge thanks to everyone who came along, including my ol' studiomate \u003Ca href=\"https://www.whodunnknit.com/\">Lauren O'Farrell\u003C/a> (aka Deadly Knitshade) and her family: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1228247_original-4aa5ce8688.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe event started off with a bang!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1229214_original-c56f4acd3c.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DFB_storyhouse/status/1636414490366427155\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.7em\">\u003Ci>Photo tweeted by @DFB_storyhouse\u003C/i>\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nI showed everyone how to draw our main character, Pedro, and then everyone helped us work out some of the weird and wonderful things you might find in the 'Nameless Isles', shown on the edge of the Adventuremice map in the book. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1228613_original-2893803d82.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DFB_storyhouse/status/1636414490366427155\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.7em\">\u003Ci>Photos tweeted by @DFB_storyhouse\u003C/i>\u003C/span>\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Meggie Dennis\u003C/b> from our publisher David Fickling Books even came along with fancy Adventuremice biscuits! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1229423_original-2a36bff223.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 0.7em\">First photo by Philip, second photo - \u003Ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dauntbooks/\">Instagram story by @dauntbooks\u003C/a>\u003C/span>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nMaking a book is a huge team effort, and you can see some of the team here: publicist \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/frashutc\">Fraser Hutchinson\u003C/a> on the left (the original inspiration for one of the characters in our Kevin books, Cardigan Faun), Assistant Editor \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/meggie_dennis\">Meggie Dennis\u003C/a> and our main editor and publisher \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LizJCross\">Liz Cross\u003C/a> (who's worked on 13 books with me and at least 20 with Philip, including dicovering his very first Mortal Engines novel)! We're very grateful to them for all their efforts toward creating and getting the word out about Adventuremice, and we hope lots of readers find out about it. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1229755_original-15e4c155f9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks so much to Daunt Books for hosting! If you want to download more free activities, visit our new Adventuremice website: \u003Ca href=\"http://adventuremice.com\">Adventuremice.com \u003C/a> and if you missed out, \u003Ca href=\"https://dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/books/adventuremice-otter-chaos-2/\">you can still order a signed edition online from Daunt Books right here\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1228815_original-a3da701c4f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2023-03-17T21:41:00.000Z","adventuremice-london-launch-at-daunt-books-festival-2023",[],"Adventuremice London Launch at Daunt Books Festival 2023",1776628731691]