Meet Ze Monsta

September 8th is European Heritage Open Day, historic buildings everywhere will be opening their doors to the general public. In Belfast, the Linen Hall Library is taking part, even though its doors are open most days anyway. At 1pm I will be presenting True Monsters of the Deep. It's a "lecture" for anyone from 10 years old to 100 years old.

People older than that might find the creatures a bit much for their hearts, although you're welcome if you're prepared to take the risk.



The title of this blog post is the title of a song by PJ Harvey. I'm listening to her right now.

Monsters from Carrick-on-Shannon

Hello to everyone I meet in Carrick-on-Shannon. It was the town's first children's book festival and I was glad to take part. Among other things, we drew some monsters.


Keeping watching the depths!

We worked together to draw a monster on a giant blackboard as well. I'll post up a photo of that one later.

Donegal Catch

I know The Badness of Ballydog is not the first time trawlers, lighthouses and seagulls have been put together but I like to think that the package designers at Donegal Catch might have read it. After all, Ballydog is in Donegal.