l finally got round to writing Leg-6 of the Euro Book Trek photo blog. Hope you enjoy a look in my favourite Venice bookshop it floods regularly. Substack link:-
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Cambridge and Ely were brilliant for bookshops and libraries. I’ll now continue my book trek I n France 😀🇫🇷
#SaltandSeeds #grokkist #EuroBookTrek #speculativefiction #sustainability #solarpunk

Started my Euro Book Trek! Driving 4000 miles from Hull - down the UK dropping bookmarks, chatting to bookshops & libraries. Hiding signed copies in France, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany and Belgium, supported by my publisher Grokkist Press
#SaltandSeeds #grokkist #EuroBookTrek #solarpunk

My little novel Salt & Seeds, is now published by Grokkist Press!
To celebrate, I’m going on a Solarpunk Book Trek; 34 days, 4,000 miles, 6 countries, visiting bookshops.

Find a copy: books2read.com/saltandseeds?ref=grokk.ist.
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Another quick sketch of another character, this is Ash on her coastal research boat The Wild Margin. She’ll be going in my new book Salt & Seeds, being published by Grokkist Press New Zealand 24th June. I’ll recreate this in Procreate, ready for the book. #charectersketch #salt&seeds #grokkistpress

Haven’t sketched for years! But I’ve started developing my book characters by drawing them. Here’s Bramley. Called him Bram as his fang stick out (Bram Stoker), but Bramley is a kinder name for him. Could’ve fixed it, but it gave me more to write about 🙂 His book’s called Salt & Seeds.
#saltandseeds

Delighted to be joining a panel at Space Tech Assembly:
Here’s their announcement: 
 ⭐​ Alan Raw FRSA FSI is on the last panel of the day, discussing barriers to earth observation – and ways to tackle them.
#GalacticESG #WeArePanGalactic #Space #SpaceTech #EarthObservation

Happy Periastron Day!
Our lovely planet is closest to our Sun today. Have a great solar storm free orbit Spaceship Earth🖖🏼
#perihelion #PeriastronDay #space
Photo by NASA

Have you ever wondered how seeing Earth from space might change your view and future resolutions? Astronauts talk about a profound shift in perspective when they first view our planet floating in the cosmic void. Happy New Year!

Of course any landmark old or new interacts with the sun in some way, here’s my photo of a local modern favourite, the Humber Bridge. Not designed to mark the sun’s moves at all, but they do look great together.
Happy Solstice!
#solstice #celestial #humberbridge #spaceshipearth