{"id":1074,"date":"2009-12-04T18:15:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2009-12-04T18:15:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:15:35","slug":"a-squid-and-some-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Squid And Some Pork&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;That, in case you&#8217;re wondering, is what I was told the unforgettable image on the cover of my new book CRAWLERS was made of. At yesterday&#8217;s <strong>Random House Children&#8217;s Books Christmas Party<\/strong> I got the chance to meet, thank and congratulate the person responsible, namely RHCBUK&#8217;s in-house design genius <strong>Rhys Willson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s clearly a man who loves his job. &#8216;If you want to do cuts or wounds,&#8217; he explained with relish, &#8216;then pork is the way to go, because it looks just like human flesh. As for the squid, I went down the fish-market, saw one I liked, and got the fishmonger to mash it up a bit for me with a mallet.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CRAWLERS has now <strong>received its first review<\/strong>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barryhutchison.com\/\"><strong>Barry Hutchison<\/strong><\/a>, author of the bracingly bloodcurdling and entirely awesome upcoming horror series <strong>INVISIBLE FIENDS<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\/2009\/12\/review-crawlers-by-sam-enthoven\/\">hit this link<\/a> &#8211; and imagine how I felt as I read that first paragraph&#8230;! ;p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;That, in case you&#8217;re wondering, is what I was told the unforgettable image on the cover of my new book CRAWLERS was made of. At yesterday&#8217;s Random House Children&#8217;s Books Christmas Party I got the chance to meet, thank and congratulate the person responsible, namely RHCBUK&#8217;s in-house design genius Rhys Willson. He&#8217;s clearly a man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}