New Post on DFB Storyblog

I've just made a new post on the DFB Storyblog, my publisher's website.  All the DFB authors & illustrators were asked to respond to Eleanor Updale's new book The Last Minute, which is about a massive disaster - so I wrote about the idea of the apocalypse, which is one of the themes of my new book Phoenix (coming in August!)  Here's an image I used - the remnants of a supernova:

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New Year, new book, new blog...

Happy New Year to all my readers!  It's exciting because this is the year that my new book PHOENIX will finally be published - so please make a note of the date, and spread the word - it'll be out in August!  I'll be posting lots more about it as we get closer to publication...

In the meantime, you may be interested to know that as well as blogging here, I also post sometimes on the DFB Storyblog, where my publishers suggest a topic, and lots of authors and illustrators then post about it.  This time, we were asked to write about the business of being an author, and how we balance it with actually writing books.  We were also asked about our new years' resolutions...

If you want to know more, my post is here - and here's one of the images from it - my new notebook!