Have you been out today?

A spread from Notebook 13.

Some scribbles and doodles from a notebook I filled up recently.

Some more Noir Dogs drawings, some of which (at time of posting) are available for sale here.

As of last week, my last book (slightly rebranded as Emily Lime, Librarian Detective: The Book Case) is available in super affordable paperback form with the splendid new Ness Wood-designed cover seen above.

Buy now, buy many and buy often, preferably from your local lovely independent bookstore (God bless 'em, every one), or alternatively from...



David Fickling Books

Hive Books

Or even Amazon (if you must).

Never joined in the whole Inktober thing before, but I thought I'd give it a go this year. Envisaged myself carving out an hour or so each day to produce a considered, beautifully conceived and expertly executed piece, neatly central on a pristine piece of cartridge paper. But of course I ended up with a rather rag tag mix of doodles in the margins of newspapers (photographed out of focus on my phone), failed efforts at something more substantial, three days missed entirely... But, still, there are a handful that turned out okay, I think. Anyway, in the interests of chronicling it all in one place (and because I haven't posted here at all in God knows how long), here they all are...