A School Show & More Covers

Added on 27 February 2009

Newly escaped from Two of Two's once-a-term concert. Forty minutes of kids singing and playing a variety of musical instruments. Parent Hell. There's a sign on the door as you enter which reads: This is what you get for deciding to have children. Either my expectations had slipped or it wasn't as aw...

Never Judge A Book... etc etc

Added on 26 February 2009

A couple of years ago I was talking to someone from the Scottish Publishers Association at the Frankfurt Book Fair. I was hoping she'd give me advice on how to sell millions of books, but she seemed inclined to think that I was going to get Absolutely Nowhere self-publishing and was much keener on g...

The Economics of Optimism

Added on 25 February 2009

This from yesterday's news: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Tuesday the worst recession in decades might end this year, and that regulators aren't planning to nationalize banks. Investors, battered for months by news of massive layoffs and huge bank losses, took heart from the...

New Series Covers

Added on 24 February 2009

Here are the works in progress for the rest of the covers to tie in with the updated The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson. While there should be a continuation of the theme of the first, these are a little bit too similar. I particularly like the cover for The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt, but on first...

What It Doesn't Mean To Be Scottish

Added on 23 February 2009

The first day of school after the half-term break. Seems like more than ten days since last we visited the shrine of learning. Either the days have dragged or we've done a lot. During the break both kids picked up a hacking cough. Had I been Polish I would have had them along to a doctor and the doc...