I wrote an essay for on writers who also illustrate. I mentioned Mervyn Peake Tove Jansson Victor Hugo and many others.
Writer Illustrators
Misc
Guy Fawkes
I wrote an essay on Guy Fawkes for Electric Lit
Sara Gruen’s castle.
I painted a Scottish castle for Sara Gruen’s website. You can visit it here: saragruen.com/index.php
U.S. pre publication reviews roundup
from the Overlook Press blog: Early Praise for Edward Carey’s HEAP HOUSE Edward Carey’s HEAP HOUSE, Book One in the Iremonger Triology, has been selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the “Big Indie Sleepers of Fall 2014.” Heap House will be published on October 16, and has already received widespread praise. *** “Set in 1875,… Read more »
Remembering the old Foyles Bookstore
Today I’m on Foyles’ blog talking about how Foyles used to be in the days of Christina Foyle. How it was (a very, very strange place): And how it is now (extremely pleasant): http://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Biblio/Detail.aspx?blogId=1282 …
A PUBLIC SPACE
I’m so thrilled to be in issue 21 of A PUBLIC SPACE Inside it I’m talking about a book I can’t quite seem to get right but will go back to soon. It’s set in Paris at the end of Enlightenment, through the French Revolution and into the Terror. The central character is a diminutive… Read more »
short stories
I’ve published a couple of short stories in the last couple of months. One is in XO ORPHEUS, a book of new myths published by Penguin and edited and organized and inspired by the amazing Kate Bernheimer (if you don’t know it look up her wonderful www.fairytalereview.com). I chose as my myth Baucis and Philemon… Read more »
WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS
Here’s the link to the Guardian website for a piece I wrote on writers and illustrators (including the great Mervyn Peake).
