Announcements

A rather nice last-day-before-holidays package has just arrived at my door: the first pair of copies of my book straight off the printing press!

Almost two years since the proposal was approved, last Friday, I finally completed the process of developing my new book. The relief and joy was expressed via a piece of impromptu early morning poetry.

This week, I have been running a poll for readers to help decide the outcome of my third and final creative competition to win a copy of my book, namely the #BookShopped contest. The voting closed at 3PM UK time and I am delighted to announce…

Two weeks ago I launched the third and final creative contest to win a copy of my book. The theme of this challenge was #BookShopped, inviting people to creatively incorporate an image of my book cover into a famous movie scene.

Over the past two months I have held contests (1 #Graphiti, 2 #BestWorstViz) for successful participants to win a free copy of my book when it is released in June. I was really impressed with the creativity exhibited in both these contests and so I am launching a third, and final, challenge.

A couple of weeks ago I launched a second contest inviting people to send me examples of their best worst visualisation work. It had to be their work, though, not just submissions of bad visualisations they’ve seen elsewhere.

Last month I launched a contest based around the theme of ‘#graphiti’, inviting people to send in visualisation modified with their doodle-based daubings. Having really enjoyed running that contest I checked with my publishers to see if we could run two more before publication date and they were up for it!

A couple of weeks ago I launched a small contest inviting folks to send me examples of graphiti – the clever ways can you think of combining the world of doodling and visualisation. The winner would receive a free copy of my upcoming book as soon as it is published.

As my closest school mates will attest, one of my favourite pastimes at school was doodling in textbooks (sorry teachers/authors/publishers but I couldn’t help it) with our French textbook my personal favourite canvas.

As this site enters its 7th year I’ve got a lot of new plans that are gradually developing in the background with the singular aim of enlightening and inspiring my treasured readers.