Tag: People

  • I’ve been made into a character!

    I’ve been turned into a story character! How can this be you ask? I’m asking the same thing! I had a text last night from Adam Frith who is a Creative writer from Manchester, starting a degree in animation in September 2017. Adam has been writing something major and epic, that I can’t tell you about, but apparently…

  • Why is everyone talking about empathy?

    Have you noticed the word Empathy being used more often, recently? I have, but then I’ve been following EmpathyLabUK for the last year or so. Even so, Empathy seems to be everywhere… or not. which is the problem. In the UK, we seem to have become more polarised into smaller and smaller interest groups, isolating…

  • I’m working with Michael Morpurgo again!

    Twenty nine years ago, I illustrated a book for an up and coming author called Michael Morpurgo. He’s done quite well for himself since! The book was Mossop’s last Chance, a sad story about a farm cat that was past his expiry date. Fiona Kenshole, my editor at A&C Black, had a vision that she…