I'm in the new Comic Relief book

If you've trawled around this website, you may have come across my little poem, Hippoparadox.

You may also know I'm on Twitter, and have in fact become seriously addicted to it.

Now, these two facts have collided, as Hippoparadox has been selected to appear in TwitterTitters, a book created for Comic Relief through Twitter.



The creators, Linda Jones and Louise Bolotin, put the word out on Twitter for submissions to the book, and also to recruit others beyond the 'Twitterverse'. And it worked. (Read more about how the book came about here.)

They had over 70 submissions, apparently, and chose 12, of which mine was one. I am, as you'd expect, thrilled.

The book is available now, as a download or a printed copy, from Lulu. Please invest in a copy, partly for my ego's sake but more importantly to have a laugh and raise some more money for Comic Relief.

You know you want to.

Go on.

The next JK Rowling...

The leadership of writers' group 26 have come up with another fantastic project, in which I'm lucky enough to be involved.

You may remember that last year we were creating posters for every station on the Circle Line. This time we've been teamed with student illustrators from the London College of Communication (LCC) to create concepts for children's books.

With Faber & Faber also involved, there are enticing possibilities of publication in the air, and we hope at least to create another terrific exhibition at the London Design Festival next year.

I've been lucky in the random pairings, too, finding myself alongside a talented student, Alec Strang, whose work is admirably peculiar and evidently crafted with great care and skill.

As a collaborative tool, I've created a blog that Alec and I can use to trade ideas. If anyone's interested, it's also a way to follow the book's development. Enjoy...