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a day in the life of a picture book: STUFFIT EXPANDER!


 

It’s a big day in the making of my new picture book, Martha and the Bunny Brothers I Heart Bedtime. My brilliantly talented designer at HarperCollins Children’s Books (note I call him MY – I obviously have trouble in accepting that he might just work with OTHER illustrators too…) has taken my text and scribbly roughs and colour notes and transformed them into the layouts I need to get started on the artwork.

To download them first I must get hold of an application called Stuffit Expander. This is my favourite name EVER! Sounds so much like an comfortable elasticated waistband that a stout gentleman might need for his trousers…