[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-interview-by-philip-reeve":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"First: proof that I did, indeed, do a morning sketch today! My outing to Greenwich was actually intended as a brisk walk around the park, but I have this terrible problem where even though I walk and walk, inevitably I get sucked into a bakery where I demolish any benefit I just took from the exercise. It's the same bakery where I showed up the very first day it opened, \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/148035.html\">made a drawing\u003C/a>, and they bought prints and hung it on the wall. The drawing's still there, which makes me all proud whenever I walk in. \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/rhodes_bakery-c6da1ba707.gif\" width=\"430\">\\r\n\u003Ci>(Note to the bakers, sorry, if these don't look all that much like you, it's because I was trying very hard not to stare too hard. Even though you probably thought I was being a bit creepy anyway.)\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nAnd very exciting news! \u003Cb>The marvelous writer and illustrator \u003Cfont size=\"3\">Philip Reeve\u003C/font> just interviewed me for his blog!\u003C/b> My studio mate Lauren and I both think Philip's the bee's knees, so the title's very fitting. \u003Ca href=\"http://the-solitary-bee.blogspot.com/2010/09/conversation-with-sarah-mcintyre.html\">Read the interview here!\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://the-solitary-bee.blogspot.com/2010/09/conversation-with-sarah-mcintyre.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/solitarybee-df08abce5c.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://the-solitary-bee.blogspot.com/2010/09/conversation-with-sarah-mcintyre.html\">The Solitary Bee\u003C/a> and a photo I took of Philip at the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/308974.html\">Carnegie Greenaway award reception\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nIt's a bit more personal than some of my other interviews. I think that's because I've been thinking so much about my dad recently, with \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/320403.html\">his retirement last week\u003C/a> and those thoughts tied in very intriguingly with what I was reading in Philip's books, \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Fever Crumb\u003C/i>\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>\u003Ci>A Web of Air\u003C/i>\u003C/b>. I have four more \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Mortal Engines\u003C/i>\u003C/b> books to look forward to (I've read the two prequels), but on my way back from Greenwich this morning, the shop had sold out. Lauren would lend hers to me but they're stuck in her storage unit, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.themousehunter.com/\">Alex Milway\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://fazchoudhury.blogspot.com/\">Faz Choudhury\u003C/a> both say they have copies they'll lend me (they're fans, too) but I have to figure out how to get them. Book 1, I'm going to HUNT YOU DOWN!\\r\n\\r\nPhilip's also posted a \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.tumblr.com/post/1082751856/another-view-of-the-bells-fields-when-we-lived\">lovely sketch\u003C/a> he made of the field across from his house on Dartmoor, and a \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2010/09/fever-in-pickle-rye.html\">a scan from a doodle I made on a letter to him\u003C/a>! (Ok, my drawing's a bit rough, I didn't think you'd see it. Here's the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/321047.html\">fancier drawing\u003C/a> from the top of the letter.)\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2010/09/fever-in-pickle-rye.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/PickleRye-4e7c621613.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\nLast year, I made a resolution to write more letters, not just type e-mails, and mostly all that came of it was \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/162136.html\">this letter to David Lasky\u003C/a>. (Which David e-mailed me recently to say has been put on a \u003Ca href=\"http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jbass/courses/402/402_spr09.htm\">comics class reading list\u003C/a> for Rutgers University, whoa!) But I love writing and getting letters, I'd be happy just doing that all day.\\r\n\\r\nI'm off to Hampshire tomorrow to hang out with my lovely friend \u003Ca href=\"http://www.redhousechildrensbookaward.co.uk/authors/LaynMarlow.html\">Layn Marlow\u003C/a>. We're going to try to figure out how to dazzle everyone at our joint presention to the Federation of Children's Book Groups in Oxford on Nov 6th (details on my \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/events.html\">events page\u003C/a>). We're up with the writers Philip Pullman and Mary Hoffman... but I bet they don't have as many pictures as we do, right?","2010-09-07T21:51:00.000Z","interview-by-philip-reeve",[],"interview by philip reeve!",1776628718691]