[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-philip-reeve-and-i-made-you-a-new-mortal-engines-story":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-bleak-midwinter.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bleak_midwinter_cover-d62a75bfb3.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nPhilip was hemming and hawing about writing 'something Christmas-y' for his blog, and I begged him to write a \u003Cb>Mortal Engines\u003C/b> short story, 'something a bit horrible,' I said, 'with severed heads and violence, not your standard sentimental holiday stuff... but maybe with a little bit of winter warmth somewhere in there'. And I kept barraging him with mostly-rubbishy ideas that he kept batting down because they didn't quite fit in the Mortal Engines world, and when I said I'd do the pictures, he got fed up with my pestering, caved in and wrote it, properly, with characters and a setting that perfectly nestle into the marvelous world he's already created. So... SUCCESS! I was rather pleased with how the pictures came out, too. They were hugely fun to draw, and very different from the project I'm currently working on.\\r\n\\r\nGo make yourself a cup of tea, pull up your chair, and have a read of the story, \u003Cb>\u003Ci>The Bleak Midwinter\u003C/i>\u003C/b> \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-bleak-midwinter.html\">over on Philip's blog\u003C/a>. Let us know what you think! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-bleak-midwinter.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bleak_midwinter_2-e3519f1984.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nIf you haven't read the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mortalengines.co.uk/\">Mortal Engines\u003C/a> books, you are in for a massive treat. You can either start with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.scholastic.com/fevercrumb/\">\u003Ci>Fever Crumb\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, the first of three prequels (that's where I started), or with \u003Ci>Mortal Engines\u003C/i>, the first book Philip wrote in the Mortal Engines quartet. \\r\n\\r\nAnd there's another treat coming up in April, the launch of \u003Cb>Philip's new book, \u003Ci>Goblins\u003C/i>\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goblins-Philip-Reeve/dp/1407115278/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324464806&sr=8-1\">available for pre-order!\u003C/a>), which I've read and which threw me back and forth between belly laughing and being completely spell-bound. It's a cracker of a story, so I'm sure you'll see more goblins popping up on this blog as spring advances.","2011-12-21T11:07:00.000Z","philip-reeve-and-i-made-you-a-new-mortal-engines-story",[],"philip reeve and i made you a new mortal engines story!",1776628721142]