[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-very-serious-meeting-notes":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I finished my picture book! Hurrah! Yesterday was my deadline and I rode the Underground to the \u003Ca href=\"http://clubs-shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/21084\">Scholastic\u003C/a> offices to deliver my artwork to my designer, Zoe Waring. She was thrilled with how it came out, relief! I was absolutely shattered, but I dragged myself to the Society of Authors for a meeting of the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.societyofauthors.org/childrens-writers-and-illustrators-group\">Children's Writers & Illustrators Group\u003C/a>, where, besides cookies and tea cups, the secretary had laid out little notepads at everyone's place, just like you get at a hotel. In a frantic attempt not to fall asleep, I started doodling like mad... I mean, \u003Ci>taking very serious notes about the meeting\u003C/i>. Here they are:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cwig_doodle4-ca8a296713.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Inspired by a recent design by Anthony Browne for the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.ibby.org.uk/congress_2012\">IBBY Congress brochure\u003C/a>. But a mean version of his nice monkey.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cwig_doodle5-16508e52ba.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Inspired by listening a discussion of using a church for a conference venue while sneaking peeks at a mustachioed bust sitting up on the meeting room mantle piece\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nHey, I have two pages in the latest Spring Issue of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.carouselguide.co.uk/\">Carousel magazine\u003C/a>! I've written about my comics, making collaborative comics, a couple activity ideas, and the amazing way that reading comics gets kids immediately wanting to make their own stories. I'm chuffed they decided to use the sheep-robot combat photo with \u003Ci>Mo-bot High\u003C/i> author \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neillcameron.com/\">Neill Cameron\u003C/a> and me, and the cover of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/airship.html\">\u003Ci>Airship\u003C/i>\u003C/a> by \u003Ca href=\"http://scribblehound.com/\">David O'Connell\u003C/a> and me (which you can read \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/airship.html\">here\u003C/a>).\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/carousel-68c7f205eb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more More doodles and pics under the cut-->\\r\nHere's the \u003Ci>Carousel\u003C/i> cover. You can also catch a one-page article by the writer of \u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i>, Giles Andreae.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/carousel2-785c588095.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBack to meeting doodles. Here's novelist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.balirai.co.uk\">Bali Rai\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cwig_doodle3-29d85671a3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nJust before the meeting, I grabbed a quick bowl of Ukrainian borsch at a Polish restaurant near South Kensington tube station with three of the committee people. Here in the foreground you can see writer and poet \u003Ca href=\"http://www.helena-pielichaty.com\">Helen Pielichaty\u003C/a> and writer-illustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/author/2067/Nicola-Smee.html\">Nicola Smee\u003C/a>; writer-poet-songwriter \u003Ca href=\"http://www.visitingauthor.com\">John Dougherty\u003C/a> and I are mucking about in the cafe mirror.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cwig_lunch-3a8af23b31.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThere's a bust of Voltaire that keeps the mustachioed dude company in the meeting room. He looks a bit envious, his toga is no match for the 'tache.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cwig_doodle1-21cb1be2f2.jpg\">","2011-03-16T07:43:00.000Z","very-serious-meeting-notes",[],"very serious meeting notes",1776628719881]