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By: Lynne Chapman,
on 12/4/2009
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The Ghosts Who Danced: and Other Spooky Stories from Around the World
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By: Lynne Chapman,
on 12/4/2009
Blog: An Illustrator's Life For Me! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: sketching on the train, Melanie Williamson, Cassia Thomas, Saviour Pirotta, publisher, party, Hachette, Add a tag
I wasn't sure what to wear for the Hachette party on Wednesday, but in the end I decided to dress up (there are not enough opportunities these days), so I wore my red, spotty, dancing dress (several people said I looked like a ladybird). No heels though - far too many hours of standing!
I felt a bit over-dressed getting on the train at 11am though, and wouldn't you just know it: I was sitting opposite a nun. She had wonderful buck-teeth, so I just had to draw her. I found out she was 69, but still the youngest one in her community, when she got into conversation with the man below, by coincidence, someone big in the C of E:
As last year, we were in the Century Club on Shaftesbury Ave. There is a room at the top called the Roof Terrace, which is indeed on the roof (there is a large chimney stack poking up from the floor) but it's under a marquee-like cover, so very civilised and remarkably cosy.
At one end of the room there is a little grotto of plants in tubs, and what I thought was a water feature: a little waterfall tumbling down into one of the bigger pots. then I realised it was rain pouring in off the edge of tarp!
Things were already in full swing when I arrived. It was lovely catching up with people. Amongst many others, I met up with Cassia Thomas and Saviour Pirotta in the flesh, instead off on Facebook, and got very over-excited with Melanie Williamson (one of the few people I've met who's more hyper than me!)
These parties are a great way for we isolated arty-folk get to make new author & illustrator friends, and this year I discovered the lovely Sam McCullen of Billy Back to Front fame. We made a bit of an amusing couple in conversation though, as Sam is as tall as I am short: I more or less came up to his belly button!
When they threw us out of the club at 5.00, the hard-core, party types transferred to a local pub (after some confused toing and froing in the rain, trying to work out which pub we were meant to be in).
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Ahhh love that dress, beautiful sketch. Your blog is so interesting.
I always have a giggle reading what you get up to but I think this is the first time I've ever seen a tipsy sketch! ;) Love the squiggly hair!
I also can't stop smiling reading your blog. Besides being a brilliant artist you are an amazing writer. Thank you for bringing sun in my rainy saturday.
How lovely to feature on your blog! Thanks Lynne... I almost did another dance when I saw that, but I managed to restrain myself! Great to see your nun sketch again too... and your tipsy sketch made me smile. :-)
Thanks guys!