I'm finally on the mend after Epic Flu, but I've had a hard time getting straight back to work and my concentration's been all over the place. All I really want to do is curl up with a hot drink while someone reads me stories. ...So Philip Reeve obliged me, since he was just about to turn in an edited version of his upcoming book, RAILHEAD , and was hoping to catch glitches by giving it a read-through. I was more than happy to 'help'! Gosh, it's a stonking good story. If you don't know about RAILHEAD , you can read a little bit about it over on Philip's blog . I'm not illustrating this one, it's more along the lines of Philip's Mortal Engines stories, but with a completely new amazing world and totally new tech. It comes out next year, early autumn, I think.