I told you previously I was about to work on our second Children’s book, which is entitled ‘Desmond is a Robot’, but I never told you how I got on.

Brilliantly.

The premise of the book is pictured above - that’s the first page of the book. Desmond begins in somewhat of a pickle as he is stuck being a Robot - it might just be that not every aspect of being a Robot is as good as it sounds at first, and this Robot seems to be very alone. Until, that is, his friend Mary arrives to help him be a good robot. Everything is going swimmingly, until something goes terribly wrong… UH OH!

Told in thirteen pages, similar in style to the one pictured above, this book is the other best kids book ever.

We think maybe it would be good to try to get this book published alongside our other book (also thirteen pages in a similar style) so you have the two best kid’s books ever in the one volume!

Anyone who has any tips about approaching agents, or any other useful information or feedback, as always please leave a comment… thanks!

I am about to embark upon illustrating the companion piece to our first childrens book (which to date is the best kids book ever).

John McCarthy dubbed this our ‘difficult second album’, but despite that he came up with a beauty.

We hope to publish the two stories in one book - they will knock you sideways when they are revealed, they’re so fabulous.

I am still not revealing the title of the first story for children because it would give too much away for now. However I will let you in on the title for our second story:

Desmond is a Robot.

If you are familiar with the music of Grandaddy , and particularly the album ‘The Sophtware Slump’, then you might understand why I felt it would be a good album to work to while illustrating ‘Desmond is a Robot’. So that’s what I’m listening to now.

This Grandaddy video is dedicated to Donncha and Adam,

As I mentioned already John McCarthy wrote the best kids book ever, and I illustrated it. It’s a picture book, and we are now working on a companion piece for it - we see the two stories being published together as both are beautifully short.

Trying to get published will probably be a long, slow process, so in the meantime I thought I would give a sneak preview by showing you the characters in the first book, pictured above.

On the left is Michael, and on the right his new found friend Sandra. And her two cats.

Michael can do something most people can’t, and he has a lot of fun with his amazing ability. But I can’t let the cat out of the bag yet.

I wish this book had been around when I was a kid, I hope it gets into the hands of children who read really soon! Publishers: think of the children! They’re being deprived of the best book in the known universe!

Any help or advice anyone can give us with regard to getting published would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to everyone who got in touch already!

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I said there was exciting news on the way… and I can now tell you that myself and John McCarthy have the BEST KID’S BOOK EVER up our sleeves.

Everybody in the whole world is going to love it. In fact, so far all the people in the world that we have shown it to DO love it.

It’s a short colour picture book and it’s highly original.

We made it because we wanted to, because it was a brilliant idea, and John’s writing and my illustration work really well together, and it was INCREDIBLY FUN TO DO!

So now all we need to figure out is the best way to get it published. Can anyone help?

If you can help in any way, pointers, tips, links, contacts, ANYTHING appreciated. Please leave a comment or use our contact form! Thanks!

More on this again soon…