Becky at Usborne collates the last-minute changes and we make the print deadline by the skin of our teeth! Just over a week later, at the Waterstones Book Prize, I get my first look at the Moonlocket book when she hands me a finished copy. I come up with some new ideas to gradually incorporate into the talk. I realise I must tweak my event, as some craft elements aren't possible with large groups. They go fine, and lots of enthusiastic kids get books signed afterwards, but by the end of World Book Week I feel run ragged. Seeing kids are dressing up as my characters - the ones inside my head - is the most amazing thing ever! By now I feel comfortable with small talks, but I’ve said yes to two big ones: 200 students each! And both are without microphones, I discover when I arrive, so they're scary as hell! World Book Day - deportment lessons at Saint Helen and Saint Katharine School March: ‘Our school dinners are the best school dinners.’ (They tell you this at every school.) This is the moment when you have to tie down every single unresolved thing and explain away all the weird continuity errors. Three weeks to do copyedits for Moonlocket. For this draft it feels as if I must plait the plot, characters, and emotions as closely as possible, so everything in the story is bound tightly together.įebruary: Someone's left the cake out in the rain! I get more edits back and try to finish the fourth draft of Moonlocket, finessing the larger details. Just before Christmas, I hand in the third draft of Moonlocket.
Jo tells the people walking by, “He wrote this book!" I go with my agent Jo and we take some pictures of a few in London. "A glittering clockwork treasure.Another great surprise in December is seeing Cogheart posters on stations' billboards, thanks to Alesha and the marketing department of Usborne. "A delightfully badly behaved heroine, enthralling mechanicals and a stormer of a plot." Abi Elphinstone "A steampunky tale of ambition, pursuit and revenge." The Guardian SELECTED AS ONE OF THE NATION'S 100 FAVOURITE STORIES TO SHARE (World Book Day, 2018) SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart. With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The first in the bestselling Cogheart Adventures series, where mayhem, murder and mystery meet in a gripping Victorian world of fantastical imagination.
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