Edinburgh Spacecakes Posted by Philip Reeve
Just home from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, where Sarah McIntyre and I unveiled our all-new Cakes in Space multimedia CAKETACULAR.
Which went well, I think. The plan was to do something that was less like a usual author event, and more like THEATRE, my dears. So we perform what amount to comedy sketches built around ideas from the Cakes in Space book before Sarah leads the audience in some community drawing and we finish, of course, with a song.
We were very nervous beforehand – would we remember our dance moves, would the video insert work, etc… But all went smoothly, and we had two great audiences. Thanks to everyone who came along, and to the Festival organisers and technical staff, and to Elaine and Keo from Oxford University Press for looking after us.
And it wouldn’t be Edinburgh if Sarah didn’t manage to get us photographed Looming Over Authors More Famous Than Ourselves in the Authors’ Yurt. Here we are looming over Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman…