Hey Mum!

Hey Mum! (1989) Post 354

Hey Mum! is a book of its time, reflecting what was happening in my life when I wrote it. It's about a small child who has a lot to say about what's happening, and who loves to involve others in interesting things. Every hour, on the hour, it's, "Hey Mum!" as an alert before she launches into a blow by blow description of something happening. The clock faces show the time, adding a subtle (maybe) teaching theme to the story. It's "Hey Mum!" hour after hour until... suddenly, it's "Hey Dad!" I haven't found a cover picture for this one yet, but will post it up when I do. 

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Sally is Sally Odgers; author, manuscript assessor, editor, anthologist and reader. She runs http://www.affordablemanuscriptassessments.com and Prints Charming Books. (Sally is me, by the way, and I am lots of other things too, but these are the relevant ones for now.)

The goal for 2017 is to write a post a day profiling the background behind one of my books; how it came to be written, what it's about, and any things of note that happened along the way. If you're an author, an aspiring author, a reader or just someone who enjoys windows into worlds, you might find this fun. The books are not in any special order, but will be assigned approximate dates, and pictures, where they exist.  isn't an encyclopaedia of fantasy creatures as it first appears. Instead, it's a collection of character drawings and paintings with written descriptions. The artist and I treated the book more or less as we might have treated animal portraits or pictures of famous people of the past, giving each one a personality and a place in the general scheme of things. I loved working on this collection, because dreaming up characters and world-building with them is one of my favourite things to do.