Events
July 23 - Sept 23, Bath
Royal United Hospital: Exhibition of illustrations to be auctioned for Facing Africa on 25 Sept (See an original illustration from Morris the Mankiest Monster!) Exhibition and auction website
Sept 19 (Sunday), London
'Hypercomic', Pump House gallery, Battersea Park, an exhibition featuring the site-specific work of Dave McKean, Warren Pleece & Daniel Merlin Goodbrey.
Leading family workshop, 1:30-3:30 in the gallery. Part of the London Open House weekend.
Masked Adventures in Comics! 
Draw inspiration from the Hypercomic exhibition and Dave McKean's masked
characters to design your own story's masked heroes and villains. Get behind
their masks to discover your characters' unique personalities, then use the
Pumphouse setting to bring them to life in a gripping story. At the end,
you'll come away with your own self-published comic book!
Suitable for both children and adults. Booking details here!
Sept 25 (Saturday): Bath
Buy the original illustration of Morris the Mankiest Monster, who sleeps 
in a bed of old compost, shoveled on lovely and thick!
Facing Africa Charity Auction, Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institute, Queens Square, 7pm Exhibition and Auction website
Sept 24 (Friday): Wigtown, Dumfriesshire
Vern and Lettuce comic school events
Sept 25 (Saturday): Wigtown, Dumfriesshire
Wigtown Book Festival, 'Hungry Aliens & Manky Monsters!' Interplanetary fun for the whole family. Exclusive festival sneak-peek sales of Vern and Lettuce.
**Sept 30 (Thursday): Launch of Vern and Lettuce, in the DFC Library!**
OCTOBER BOOK TOUR BEGINS!
Oct 2, Bath
Bath Kids Lit Fest - 10-10:45am, Bath Central Library
Making Friends with Aliens! Join Illustrator and comics creator Sarah McIntyre as she introduces you to her alien and monster friends in an actionpacked, interactive drawing event! Come and learn Sarah’s secret tips on how to invent funny or scary characters and then make them come alive in your very own book.
Tickets £4.50, Booking details here
**Oct 7 (Thursday): Launching When Titus Took the Train with Anne Cottringer and OUP!**
Oct 7-10, London
Woolly duo Vern & Derek hit the Knitting and Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace. Details TBA
Oct 12 & 13, Ireland
Comics workshops with studio mate Gary Northfield in conjunction with Children's Books Ireland. Details TBA
Oct 16 (Saturday), Birmingham
British International Comics Show, signing Vern and Lettuce, time TBA (probably between noon and 2pm)
Also on the Saturday, pick up a copy of the Etherington Brothers' new DFC Library book, Monkey Nuts. Get Lorenzo to draw in it!
Oct 17 (Sunday), Cheltenham
Cheltenham Literary Festival,
Aliens and Monsters! Queen's Hotel, 11:30-12:15, ages 4-7, £4.50/£3.60 for members
Sarah McIntyre loves monsters and aliens — they feature in many of her books such as Morris the Mankiest Monster and You Can’t Eat a Princess. Listen to stories, join in the action and make your own monster to take home! Come dressed as an alien or monster, too!
Make a Comic with Sarah McIntyre Queen's Hotel, 2-4pm, ages 7-11, £15
Bring your own pen and a lot of gusto for this action-packed comic book making workshop with Sarah McIntyre, the inventor of the Pickle Rye world, home to Lettuce the rabbit and Vern the sheep. Her artwork is laced with silliness and humour; no wonder she's one of the original Fleece Station artists, a collective whose grand title derives from their love of drawing... sheep!
Book your ticket here
**NEWS: I'm this year's featured BookIt! festival children's illustrator! So you'll see Vern and Lettuce everywhere you go there, hurrah!**
Oct 23 (Saturday), London
Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival
12-12.25pm, Bookseller Crow bookshop: Bogeys! Tentacles! Tiaras? Story and drawing fun with the illustrator of Morris the Mankiest Monster and You Can’t Eat a Princess!. For ages 4+
Oct 26 & 27 (Tues & Wed), Nottingham
Game City, live painting of one of the six market square games stations, next to spaces painted by Jon Burgerman, Barbara Lippe, Rex Crowle & 2 others. Festival continues until 30 Oct.
Oct 29 (half day), 30 & 31, London
MCM Expo, ExCel Centre - Fleece Station table
Nov 6, Oxford
Storymakers: Open conference with The Federation of Children's Book Groups: Presentation with writer/illustrator Layn Marlow on Hopping the Gap Between Words and Pictures. Other speakers include Philip Pullman & Mary Hoffman. website
Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, 9:15am - 3:45pm (Lunch included plus a tour of the University Press Museum 12:30 - 1:30, £35 for membrs, £40 for non-members.
Nov 13 & 14, Winchester
Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators
How to Sell your Book
Sat, 13 Nov, 11am-12noon, panel with Lucy Coats, Nina Douglas & Jon Mayhew: You got the agent. Then you got the book deal. Then the book came out. Then what? Suddenly it's not about craft or schmoozing agents and publishers anymore. You've scaled the mountain only to discover that there is yet another peak to climb. Our panel - which includes three authors Lucy Coats, Jon Mayhew and Sarah McIntyre as well as real life publicist Nina Douglas - dispenses down-home wisdom on how to sell your book in this brave new world where authors have to be their own publicists.
Social Networking: a blessing or a curse?
Sun, 14 Nov, 11:30am - 12:30pm, panel with Candy Gourlay & Keren David: To tweet or not to tweet? Is Facebook the death of networking as we know it? Are luddites really getting left behind or are they enjoying the kind of quality of life the 'networked' folk have surrendered in the name of social networking. A lively discussion cum debate about social networking - its blessings and its dark side.
Book tickets here
Nov 20 (Saturday), Leeds
Thought Bubble comics festival: Meet the creator of Vern and Lettuce in the DFC Library series. Design your own alien and make comics with Sarah McIntyre and local Leeds writer Gillian Rogerson, the duo behind Scholastic's interplanetary adventure story, You Can't Eat a Princess! Fun for all ages!
Nov 23 (Tuesday), Sheffield
Sheffield Children's Book Award Ceremony (Morris the Mankiest Monster shortlisted!)
Jan 28, 2011, Battersea, London
Newton Prep school visit
March 12, 2011 London
London Comics & Small Press Expo table with The Fleece Station, Goldsmith's University, New Cross
Mar 17, 2011 (Thurs), Oundle
Oundle Festival of Literature, 1:30 book event and signing