Post Four

Also I feel you should know that I am NOT posting at 5.18 in the morning. That would be way past my bedtime. It is in fact about half past one, ie a little past my lunchtime. But for some reason (perhaps my computer thinks it is in Japan, or the Andeman Islands, or up the Empire State Building) 5.18 is what comes up. I shall perhaps attempt to ask the computer why, and try to change it.
Now there's a good way to avoid work!

the technical term for this, dear reader, is 'displacement activity'. Writers know a lot about this.


How about a book about a girl spy, who pretends to be ineterested in only nailpolish but is really a black-belt karate with a personal jet-pack hidden in her dad's shed disguised as a lawnmower, who is under contract to the government and scoots off to save the world every day after school?

Just a thought.

Blog Three: getting the hang of it

Ay ay ay! Just realised that some people had actually read this and written comments and I never knew or responded or anything. I am REALLY SORRY. And thank you sosos sososososososo much. So now even more I am going to be responsive and appreciative.

And in answer to your questions:

1) the blog is me (aha! which of us is me, you may ask. Ha ha ha! Not telling.)
2) the idea for Lionboy came from bedtime stories told by a tired mum who couldn't think of anything to tell a story about to a chirpy kid who didn't want to go to sleep. So the kid thought up subjects (a naughty boy! a whale! running away! a circus with zebras in!) and the mum thought up things in response and put them all together as stories, and from that little acorn the great Lionboy trilogy sprouted.
by the way our aunt who is also a writer had a little brother who would ask for stories about.... a lovely little electric plug. So really, we had it easy.

cheeriooooh. We are now going away to think up miore good dieas for exciting books.


(I do hope some of you come back....)

Whoops! We didn't post anything ofr more than a year! No wonder we're not taking over the world..

Well - if you're still here, you may like to know that Zizou has another book coming out. It has no title yet, but it's about a tough boy who can't read, and a magical book, and a lots of stinky sewers, and an evil authoress who steals other people's stories, and it is VERY VERY EXCITING.

You may also like to know that we will keep this blog a bit better from now on, with Lionboy news, interesting items, peculiar comments and our favouritely dreadful jokes appearing regularly. Honestly. We promise. Thank you. And we are very very sorry about the long gap, which is entirely because we are useless and lazy. We won't do it again.

Honest.