[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-seawigs-proof-copy":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hurrah! Gary just called across the studio that I might like to look at Twitter, and when I did, I saw my lovely agent had just tweeted this!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seawigs_proof_copy_zps5e636039-34b6648047.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSo exciting! This is the \u003Cb>uncorrected proof copy\u003C/b>, which is basically a preview version, but not supposed to look \u003Ci>too much\u003C/i> like the final book. So the \u003Cb>cover is completely different\u003C/b>, and the last chapter is still my sketches, not final artwork. It's all set to go to the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/seawigs\">Bologna Book Fair\u003C/a> at the end of March ; fingers crossed that lots of foreign publishers will want to buy and translate it! (If you know any, please give them a push for us!) :) \\r\n\\r\nGosh, I'd love to see a copy in Japanese or Korean. And if it was in French or Russian, I could sort of read it, that would be ace. I'll brush up on either language to do a reading abroad if any of you foreign publishers want to take it up. (I think my very bad accent might amuse people, at least.)\\r\n\\r\nI've proposed \u003Cfont size=\"3\">\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BCBF13&src=hash\">#BCBF13\u003C/a>\u003C/font> as this year's English-language hashtag, just because last year there were about six hashtags and it was almost impossible to follow (\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/468617.html\">as I blogged here\u003C/a>). \\r\n\\r\nHuge thanks to wonderful \u003Cfont size=\"3\">\u003Cb>Chris Riddell\u003C/b>\u003C/font> for the lovely quotation! You can \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/446651.html\">visit his amazing studio and peek at his sketchbooks in my previous blog post here\u003C/a>. The full quotation (which will be on the final cover) reads:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"3\">\u003Ci>A delightfully told, beautifully illustrated tale of nautical hairdressing, saltwater primates and sarcastic seaweed - this is my kind of book!\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nClick on this \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/seawigs\">Seawigs tag\u003C/a> to see some peeks at the illustrations!","2013-02-05T12:43:00.000Z","seawigs-proof-copy",[],"seawigs proof copy!",1776628724736]