[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-upcoming-mountains-to-sea-festival-more":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Some exciting things coming up! If you're anywhere near Dublin and Dun Laoghaire, I'm taking part in the amazing \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mountainstosea.ie/\">Mountains To Sea Festival\u003C/a> from 4-9 Sept, do come along! There's a fab line-up, including \u003Cb>Philip Reeve, Marcus Sedgwick, Steve Cole, Jeremy Strong, Chris Judge, Michelle Harrison, Steve Simpson, David Mackintosh, Robert Muchamore\u003C/b>... and much more! Here's a \u003Ci>You Can't Scare a Princess!\u003C/i> poster I made for the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mountainstosea.ie/Events/picture-book-picnic-session-2.html\">big picnic on Sun, 9 Sept\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_m2c_picnic-19fb26f154.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd there'll be an \u003Cb>exhibition\u003C/b>, too! If you're in the County Hall, look out for artwork in the Concourse. You can peek at some of my picture book artwork that no one's even seen before! Tom Donegan just sent a photo of one of my pictures \u003Ci>in situ\u003C/i>. Nice to see someone already admiring it...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/m2c_exhibition-691414f13a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'm hugely excited to be doing a two-hour \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mountainstosea.ie/Events/comics-jam-workshop.html\">Monsters & Goblins event\u003C/a> with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a>! We're going to go crazy with monster comics and goblin drawing, and get kids to make their own comics, too.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsters_goblins_web-07aebfa7d8.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's something for the grown-ups, ideally people interested in making your own picture books: \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mountainstosea.ie/Events/the-big-picture-panel-discussion.html\">The Big Picture Panel Discussion\u003C/a> with \u003Cb>Chris Judge, Steve Simpson, David Mackintosh\u003C/b> and me; Sun, 9 Sept, 1-2pm. Bring along your questions! ...Oo, just noticed that if you comment on \u003Ca href=\"http://www.inismagazine.ie/blog/entry/the-big-picture-panel-discussion\">the Inis Magazine website article\u003C/a> about it, you could win some free tickets!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.inismagazine.ie/blog/entry/the-big-picture-panel-discussion\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/M2C_poster-3a4d39cb2d.png\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nThere'll also be a \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mountainstosea.ie/Events/monster-book-lunch.html\">Monster Book Lunch\u003C/a> and loads more, see the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mountainstosea.ie/\">Mountains to Sea website\u003C/a> for more details!\\r\n\\r\nBack in \u003Cb>London\u003C/b>... are you a fan of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.oliverjeffers.com/\">Oliver Jeffers\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidalmond.com/\">David Almond\u003C/a>? Well, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/navigate.do?pPageID=200003\">book your tickets now\u003C/a> - tel: 0843 290 8549 - to see them in action at Waterstone's Piccadilly, on Wed, 26 Sept, 6:30pm. I've read the book, \u003Ci>The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas\u003C/i> and it's super-fab. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/boy_piranhas_2-3ecba894a1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/boy_piranhas_1-d797363e22.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd there are a very few places left if you want to come along just on the \u003Cb>Saturday, 15 Sept\u003C/b>, to the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.cwigconference.com/\">Society of Authors CWIG conference\u003C/a>. It's going to be amazing, loads of my storybook heroes present.","2012-08-29T15:03:00.000Z","upcoming-mountains-to-sea-festival-more",[],"upcoming mountains to sea festival & more!",1776628724148]