• Woohoo again! I’ve just finished the first draft of the last book of the Axel Storm series. It’s a bit weird writing it in between doing the artwork for books three and four.

    Actually, my original schedule had me writing it in January, but these things tend to slip. We’ve got the production schedule working okay now – a bit tight, but doable.

    Shark Island draws quite a lot on my experiences in Guam, where I went visiting schools some eighteen months ago. I went snorkeling on the reef there and had a fantastic time. Axel has just found treasure under the seabed in between nearly getting eaten by sharks and being swept away in the undertow!

    I just found the picture of me on the Isle of Wight when I was about six. I must have been thinking about this story since then. It takes me a long time to think about things!

  • Wahoo! I just checked my youtube statistics and Drawing School has now hit 100,000 views! I looked earlier and it was 99,009, so I knew it would be today.

    What a thrill!

  • I’ve just been to the dentist – something most people fear, but I have great faith in Andrew, my dentist. I’ve been putting up with a low dull ache in a crown that he fitted over a year ago. Putting up with, because I didn’t want to be told it would have to be replaced or worse.

    This morning he ground a tiny piece off the occlusal face of the tooth, (I learned that occlusal is the part of a tooth that meets another tooth in the other jaw). It feels totally different. What had felt like a big tooth is now normal. I can’t bite on it in the same way as before and so am not having the same dull pain as before.

    Such a simple remedy. Such relief!