[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-cakes-in-space-launch-party":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cfont size=\"3\">Hurrah! You're all invited to celebrate the blast-off of my new book with Philip Reeve,\\r\n\u003C/font>\u003Cfont size=\"5\">\u003Ci>CAKES IN SPACE!!!\u003C/i>\u003C/font> \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_daunt_launch_zpsc5cfa84f-3843c68e62.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Sept 13th\u003C/b>: We having a Saturday morning family-friendly celebration at central London's gorgeous \u003Ca href=\"http://www.dauntbooks.co.uk/events.asp?TAG&CID=%3A30\">Daunt Books Marylebone\u003C/a>, where you'll get to hear the \u003Ci>Cakes in Space\u003C/i> song, see the highly scientific Nom-O-Tron in action, and learn how to draw a robot! Bring your kids or come by yourself, dress up in space gear or come just as you are, it'll all be good fun. But do be sure to \u003Cb>book your place, either by e-mailing Daunt Books at orders@dauntbooks.co.uk or calling them at 020 7224 2295\u003C/b>. Here's the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/745906828789192/?fref=ts\">Cakes in Space Facebook party page\u003C/a>, if you want to let us know if you're coming (but you'll still need to contact Daunt Books).  \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_reevemcintyre_zps6069ee05-f9cd115dee.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Now for a little peek at \u003Ci>Cakes in Space\u003C/i>, to whet your appetite\u003C/b>. The book starts with Astra and her family, who are travelling to the far-off planet of Nova Mundi. It's going to take 199 years to get there, and Astra's understandably a bit nervous! But her parents reassure her that they'll all be sleeping in freezer pods, and will wake up when they arrive, as though the trip were only a single night. (Philip and I thought that there aren't enough cryonics in children's books.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_astrafamily_zps220dcaf8-1a3e73d2c4.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nHere you can see an advert for marvellous Nova Mundi. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_novamundi_zps72da328f-7eeccc8bc3.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nAstra and her family must first take a shuttle...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_spaceships_zps9cf156ef-ad27d6f759.gif\">\\r\n\\r\n... and at last arrive at the mothership. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_mothership_zpsc54f15db-13f0704840.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nYou may think I was drawing tech the whole time in this book, but you'll find some leafy scenes when Astra and her robot friend, Pilbeam, discover the ship's herbarium. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_garden1_zpsd49af0d9-041e3b58b7.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nAstra shouldn't even be awake, but things on the ship have gone very wrong after she tampered with the food machine. Oh look, some aliens! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_poglites_zps250d472c-68d74c8fd0.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd that malfunctioning food machine - the Nom-O-Tron? Well, I just have two words for you... \u003Cfont size=\"3\">KILLER CAKES\u003C/font>. Get ready for the CAKES IN SPACE. And yes, the book does contain a high-power spork battle. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cakes_attack_zpsca59267f-50ad8aef2f.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nSee you at the party! If you can't come to that, have a peek at my \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/events/\">Events Page\u003C/a>, where you can see if Philip and I might be coming to your area and can sign and doodle in your book.","2014-08-14T22:11:00.000Z","cakes-in-space-launch-party",[],"cakes in space launch party!",1776628726746]