[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-sheep-swap-8":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Or, \u003Ci>The Return of Sheep Swap\u003C/i>! For the last week or so, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> and I have been waving at each other over a gigantic stack of work piled up between our desks, but now we're buckling down and getting back into the world of Derek and Vern. \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/sheep_swap\">(Read earlier pages here.)\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Have you seen the \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/birdsongsongbird-yet-another-fantastic-anthology/\">great review of our \u003Ci>Birdsong\u003C/i> anthology\u003C/a> over at Forbidden Planet International?\u003C/b> Thanks you, Richard Bruton, for discussing each contribution in such detail! You can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40284358\">buy \u003Ci>Birdsong\u003C/i> here\u003C/a> and I'll be taking some copies up to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hi-ex.co.uk/\">Hi-Ex\u003C/a> in \u003Cb>Inverness, 27-28 March\u003C/b>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sheepswap8-de49d3caa9.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nSome other diary dates:\\r\n\u003Cb>May 28 & 29\u003C/b>: Gary and I will be sharing a table at London's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.londonexpo.com/\">MCM Expo\u003C/a> and supporting the \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/return-of-the-dfc-library-style/\">DFC Library\u003C/a> gang, who will be out in full force!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Saturday, April 24\u003C/b>, St Albans: I'm leading a Hungry Aliens & Manky Monsters workshop at a new comics festival, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.herts.ac.uk/events/UniComics-Festival.cfm\">UniComics\u003C/a>, at the University of Hertfordshire. Keep an eye on this festival to see where it goes!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Thursday, 8 July\u003C/b>, London: Get your booking in soon if you want to hear \u003Cb>Giles Andreae\u003C/b> and me talk about working together to make our book \u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i>. **(Note that the date's changed from 1 July.)** These talks in the \u003Ca href=\"http://britishscbwi.jimdo.com/events/professional-series-london/\">SCBWI Professional Series\u003C/a> tend to fill up fairly quickly, so don't wait until a few weeks before.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/moomins-cc5a6895a7.jpg\">\\r\nIf you're in \u003Cb>Brussels\u003C/b> anytime until Aug 29th, pop into the Belgian Comic Strip Centre to see the \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/from-our-continental-correspondent-moomin-at-the-belgian-comic-strip-centre/\">Moomin exhibition\u003C/a>. We're hoping this exhibition will also come to London, fingers crossed!","2010-03-09T14:54:00.000Z","sheep-swap-8",[],"sheep swap 8!",1776628717694]