[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-reeve-mcintyre-book-4-finished":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cb>\u003Cfont size=\"4\">Hooray!\u003C/font> \\r\nI finally finished illustrating my upcoming book with \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/philipreeve1\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a>, \u003Ci>Jinks & O'Hare Funfair Repair\u003C/i>!\u003C/b> \\r\nThe book's not finished; \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/9peace8\">Jo Cameron\u003C/a> still has to do a lot of placement work with all the files I've had to fix because there were little picture mistakes, and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LizJCross\">Liz Cross\u003C/a> is checking with the proof reader that there aren't any text mistakes, and then it has to go the printer, etc. With \u003Ci>Cakes in Space\u003C/i>, Liz, Clare Whitston and Jo had to send the books back to the printer because I'd used SO much heavy ink with all the black outer-space stuff that the pages didn't have enough time to dry and went wrinkly! (But the printer fixed it and everything was okay in the end.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/107086_original-bbc071dfb1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nFor Bologna Book Fair, the OUP book team printed up a sampler with the first three chapters, so here's a little peek at them. These are what are called the 'endpapers', even though they're right in the beginning and set the scene. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/107381_original-c22bf04f79.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nPhilip really likes the slappy satellite. (I'm not sure why it's slappy, I just stuck a glove on it to make it look more interesting.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/107583_original-12e388c7ba.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's Emily, in her bedroom on Funfair Moon! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/107794_original-77fa8de06f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nEmily's based very much on my studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://elissaelwick.co.uk/\">Elissa Elwick\u003C/a> and Emily wants to be a funfair engineer more than anything in the world. (Not our world, an alien world that's all funfair.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/108196_original-5e41871045.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThat's Elissa on the right in the yellow, celebrating with cake, and craft team \u003Ca href=\"http://www.whodunnknit.com/\">Lauren O'Farrell\u003C/a> (who designed the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/pugs-of-the-frozen-north/\">knitted Pug\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/oliver-and-the-seawigs/\">Sea Monkey\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jampires.com/activities/\">Jampire\u003C/a> patterns) and her working partner \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/teasemade\">Sami Teasdale\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/108351_original-1643b2519e.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe book doesn't come out 'til September but I'm already excited! Go go Jo and Liz and book team! :D\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit: Here's a photo just in from designer Jo, who is ON THE CASE!\u003C/i> :D\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/108982_original-def7ce8b94.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2016-05-18T15:00:00.000Z","reeve-mcintyre-book-4-finished",[],"reeve & mcintyre book 4... finished!",1776628728384]