It’s hard to believe I’ve been home from the Spill the Ink tour for almost four days now. Those four days, like the tour itself, have gone by in a whoosh, and I’m still getting to grips with getting back to reality.
The tour itself was fantastic fun. Along with Sorrel Anderson (author of The Clumsies) and Kate Maryon (author of Shine), I visited 8 cities in 5 days, travelling hundreds of miles and speaking to just as many kids. It was tiring, but the number of nice people I met made up for it. As did the fancy hotels and the free food and drink.
Signing books in Liverpool. Ran out of stock!
The events themselves were very varied, covering well off and less well off areas, big groups and small. The more I did, the more I found myself enjoying them, and I was really just hitting my stride when the tour came to an end in Scotland. Still, it was very nice to get home to the family, although I’m already getting ready for my next mini-tour – in Orkney, this time – later in June.
One of the nicest surprises of the tour was when Tom Roberts – someone I got to know via Twitter – turned up at the Birmingham event. It was great to finally be able to meet him in person, and I was dead chuffed when he presented me with this…
Raggy Maggie's VERY cross...
It’s my very first piece of fan art, depicting Caddie and Raggy Maggie, the terrifying terrible twosome who plague Kyle in the second Invisible Fiends book. I absolutely love it, and will be framing it and putting it up on the wall.
Must go catch up with work now, but will be back later with more tour-related tales.
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