Serious Jellyfish

This photograph is doing the rounds on the internet lately. The floating creature is a Lion's Mane Jellyfish, a real creature but this photo is a fake. The diver has been photoshopped in to make the jellyfish seem huge.

Fake

Real

This manipulation makes me mad. It seems to suggest that nature is not amazing enough by itself, it needs to be meddled with. But nature is plenty amazing enough already. The Lion's Mane Jellyfish can get to be nearly 8 feet in diameter. This ought to be enough for anyone, and with their streaming stingers they can be up to 120 feet long.

Monsters Attack Belfast

For the Belfast Children's Festival this year I will be reading from my books and talking to readers at No Alibis Bookstore on Friday 16 March 6.30pm. I'm "Back by popular demand" apparently.



Come along if you're, roughly, over 10 years of age. It's free and you don't need to book.

Details over on the festival website.

Monsters Attack Dún Laoghaire

On Saturday March 10th Don Conroy, Judi Curtin, Oisín McGann, Sarah Webb and myself will be spending the morning with readers in the County Hall, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. The organisers have used my latest cover for the poster, you can check it out here and get lots of info about the event (it's a PDF file).



Tickets are available from the Pavilion Theatre Booking Office (01) 231 2929 or visit their website, www.paviliontheatre.ie.

Right now Inis Magazine are having a competition to win a family ticket to the event. Click here and answer the question. CLUE: To this question, as to most things in life, Garrett Carr is not the answer.