Hookland 10/1/21 1:32:01

@NuitsdeY @MartinB_Archaeo There is also an element of Uttley seeing herself as an author and other people seeing her as someone who did words to go with pretty pictures. That sort of patronising approach to her tales riled her.

Hookland 10/1/21 1:34:04

@NuitsdeY @MartinB_Archaeo Yes and no. I enjoy a wonderful relationship with the illustrator of the first Hookland book which is entirely collaborative. Imaginative equity makes a lot of those issues redundant.

Hookland 10/1/21 1:36:36

@NuitsdeY @MartinB_Archaeo If you have faith in your words and the way they work alone and they way they are alchemised by illustration, you don’t let yourself think that way. Besides, all control of interpretation is lost as the moment of publication/hitting send – best to be gracious about that fact.

Hookland 10/1/21 1:40:18

@NuitsdeY I am on record as telling everyone that @edward_parnell’s Ghostland is one of the two great English ghost books of the 21st century. The other being @Skionar ‘Natural History of Ghosts’.

Hookland 10/1/21 3:18:17

@PhilH86835657 @stewarthome1 He is entirely right. Obviously, my bias as an Arsenal fan needs to be declared, but I‰Ûªd probably rather talk to Mick Staley about Arsenal than about Grant.