Meet Nosey Rosie

So, the other writing thing I've been working on is a children's book. It's the brainchild of designer Sharon Rose: about a girl who lives in a sleepy fishing village, who wants to be the greatest detective ever. Our first book is Case 101: The Search for Mr Quackers. Still crime writing, just fewer corpses :-)

Sharon's been illustrating, I've been writing and designing the layout. The book forms part of a major launch of Sharon's range of children's clothing (coming to the RDS in late January - more details as soon as they come in). Oh, and it's one of the Dragon's Den shortlisted ventures. Gulp.

We went out to the local primary school today and read the book to two classes (it's aimed at 5 to 7 year olds). It got a great response, and a zillion clever questions, and they sang us Harry the Hedgehog, and er... Bad Boys.

And the first pre-order was made. Whoo hoo!!

Here's a sneak preview :-)