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Whimsical thought for Friday …are kids books the new version of working on a novel ?

I only ask because I know of four colleagues from the creative/communications industries who are all independently professing to be working on concepts/illustrations/stories for kids books and entertainment enterprises. Whatever happened to ‘working on the [great but unfinished] novel or screenplay ? Having had such a beast - working title Nashville Tartan -occupying sock drawer space for too many years, it ain’t easy to get the time to finish it. And for it to qualify as a novel, you’re talking about generating circa 200 pages of peerless prose. Question then; is the kids book a shorthand creative cop out , or simply evidence of an as yet unexploited, unsaturated market gap ?

Big, hectic week; new client strategy session; web content deadlines; internal brand reinvigoration launch - lots of food grabbed on the run (except for Wed lunch’s new biz celebration with Oyster Design chief Steve Cumming - nice red Steve!). Thank God for Daniel Kitson at the Melbourne Comedy Festival; bleedin’ brilliant! Part comedy, part philosophy lecture from a slob professor and part emotional mining exercise, Daniel candidly reveals his own character, saying more about each and every one of us in the process (except the bit about dropping number 2’s in doorways maybe!!). Kitson’s is a must see show if you’re looking for some comedyfest laughs.

READ THE COMMENTS TO THIS LINK: VERY, VERY FUNNY.
I generally come to praise Caesar (aka The Guardian), but not this time. Seems the Guardian has taken on a new teen blogger who just happens to have a well-connected Daddy
As me ole Aussie mate in Lahndan Simon Bronson says: “Nepotism, publicity for (TV show)Skins? Either way the comments are pretty amusing.”