Just one of *those* weeks.

📮 Plus, a special guest announcement

Hello Powells,

I will cut to the chase: this week I have done nothing that I intended to do, wanted to do, or that bears any relation to making books. Instead, my week was derailed by a long list of mind-numbingly boring actions and ADHD distractions. It has been not that fun, actually:

• Took my car for an MOT (this inexplicably took all day).

• Went for three swims in new goggles that have a dangerous level of suction.

• Reconciled 147 business transactions.

• Ate a whole bag of chocolate covered Brazil nuts (then felt sick).

• Caught a spider that was hiding in my shower cap.

• Needed resuscitating when I received a tax bill for 8 grand.

• Cancelled subscriptions to apps I shouldn’t have bought in the first place.

• Spent 3 hours re-categorising Monzo transactions (pointless).

• Breathed a sigh of relief when the tax bill turned out to be a clerical error.

• Caught a spider that was hiding in my pyjamas (possibly the same spider that was in my shower cap).

• Took delivery of a 7 meter ladder.

• Dead-headed roses at 5am because I couldn’t sleep.

• Made some aubergine soup that was absolutely disgusting.

And that’s it. Four days - gone. Poof! Disappeared forever. I have drawn only ONCE in my sketchbook this week - pitiful. Here it is:

Drawn at 10pm on Tuesday night.

🎙️Special guest announcement

Next week, I will be live with my first guest - graphic novelist Whitney Gardner on Friday 4th July, 4pm GMT / 11am EST.*

*Replay available afterwards if you can’t join live.

Whitney will be coming on to draw and chat about her new book, Free Piano, Not Haunted, which publishes on July 1st. It’s a big-hearted, touching, and spooky coming-of-age story about a young aspiring songwriter who forms a ghostly partnership with the pop star who haunts her secondhand piano. VERY COOL!

Fun facts about Whitney:

She lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Her favorite color is yellow. She is the author of the YA novels You’re Welcome, Universe and Chaotic Good, as well as creator of Fake Blood and Long Distance. When she isn’t drawing, she’s rolling twenty-sided dice (which I didn’t even know was a thing so I will be asking her about THAT!).

Yours truly,

Powell