[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-mortal-engines-week":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"In case you missed this when we first posted it, here's the first story on which Philip Reeve and I collaborated, set in his Mortal Engines world. (I dared him to include a severed head in it, such a traditional Christmas element.) He's running Mortal Engines week over on his blog, so \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/in-bleak-midwinter.html\">pop over there to read \u003Ci>In the Bleak Midwinter\u003C/i>\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/in-bleak-midwinter.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bleak_midwinter_cover-d62a75bfb3.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nHa ha, here's a cartoon that \u003Ca href=\"http://www.2dscrumptious.com/\">Steve Lenton\u003C/a> sent me after Tuesday's \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/611243.html\">Nosy Crow party\u003C/a>. After appearing all over the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.achuka.co.uk/blog/nosy-crow-party/\">Achuka blog\u003C/a> coverage of the party, I saw Nosy Crow quite rightly kept their \u003Ca href=\"http://nosycrow.com/blog/festive-celebrations-and-three-years-of-publishing-at-nosy-crow\">own blog post\u003C/a> carefully about their own authors, even though my turquoise froth kept photo bombing their snapshots. I do hope I wasn't too attention-seeking in my big wig. ...Okay, sorry, yes, I was. So now I have to say lots of nice things about Nosy Crow all year to make up for it, even thought they are not my publisher. Starting with their illustrator Steve Lenton. He is a lovely chap, you should follow him on Twitter (\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/2dScrumptious\">@2dScrumptious\u003C/a>).\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/steve_lenton_nosycrow_cartoon_zps8ed4d0b6-d19a148fda.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIf there's any way you can get over to the \u003Cb>Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff between now and 5 Jan\u003C/b>, you absolutely MUST check out their \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Hiber Nation\u003C/i>\u003C/b> exhibition of work by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.feltmistress.com/\">Felt Mistress\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jonathan-e.com/\">Jontofki\u003C/a>. Felt Mistress sews incredible 3-D monsters from drawings by Jontofski (aka Jonathan Edwards). \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hiber_nation1_zpsbc54e1b4-fa5723dcab.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd I always get excited about the ways Jonathan experiments with patterns and shapes in his drawings. Check out this beautiful landscape! You can read more about the exhibition over \u003Ca href=\"http://www.designweek.co.uk/whats-on/felt-mistress-hiber-nation/3037641.article\">on \u003Ci>Design Week\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, on \u003Ca href=\"http://inkygoodness.com/blog/news/felt-mistress-jonathan-edwards-present-the-hiber-nation/\">\u003Ci>Inkygoodness\u003C/i>\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/Snow-queen-huggable-yeti-and-woodland-guru-to-wow-the-crowds\">BBC Wales\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hiber_nation2_zpsa16f3f81-ce8a56c217.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd very exciting, for the first time, \u003Ci>The Bookseller\u003C/i> has picked its top 32 Books of the Year, and included \u003Ci>Oliver and the Seawigs\u003C/i>! Most of the books are for adults, but I'm pleased to see some books for children and teens in there: \u003Ca href=\"http://www.lizpichon.co.uk/\">Liz Pichon\u003C/a>'s \u003Ci>The Brilliant World of Tom Gates\u003C/i>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.patrickness.com/\">Patrick Ness\u003C/a>'s \u003Ci>More Than This\u003C/i>, \u003Ca href=\"http://holsmale.wix.com/the-write-girl2#!geek-girl\">Holly Smale\u003C/a>'s \u003Ci>Geek Girl\u003C/i> (Wow, is that book doing well for a debut author!) and \u003Ca href=\"http://david-walliams.co.uk/\">David Walliams\u003C/a>' \u003Ci>Demon Dentist\u003C/i>. One comic (a cracker of a comic, \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/593524.html\">read my review!\u003C/a>): \u003Ci>The Encyclopedia of Early Earth\u003C/i> by \u003Ca href=\"http://isabelnecessary.com/\">Isabel Greenberg\u003C/a>. And one all-ages picture book, \u003Ci>Maps\u003C/i> by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bigpicturepress.net/our-books/maps/\">Aleksandera Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinska\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Bookseller_seawigs_zps164da998-1dba566326.jpg\">","2013-12-13T22:42:00.000Z","mortal-engines-week",[],"mortal engines week",1776628725984]