{"id":1460,"date":"2013-07-08T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T09:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomastaylor-author.com\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2022-01-13T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:26:09","slug":"mysterium-the-black-dragon-by-julian-sedgwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/mysterium-the-black-dragon-by-julian-sedgwick\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterium \u2013 The Black Dragon by Julian Sedgwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1901 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51LCpAM70DL._SY445_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51LCpAM70DL._SY445_.jpg 290w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51LCpAM70DL._SY445_-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>I was pleased to be able to attend the book launch of my good friend Julian Sedwick\u2019s debut children\u2019s novel on Friday, and a jolly fab evening it was too. The children\u2019s department of Heffers in Cambridge is a great place to launch a book (I should know;-), and the shop was packed with well-wishers, old friends and one very deserving author. Julian made a great speech and signed lots of books, while the circus atmosphere was enhanced by his son, Will, who zoomed about on a unicycle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had planned to make a sketch or two, but what with the wine and the chat and everything, it didn\u2019t happen. On the train journey home, I did have a go at a memory drawing of Julian\u2019s speech\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1902 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Julian-Sedgwick-by-Thomas-Taylor-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Julian-Sedgwick-by-Thomas-Taylor-300x208.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Julian-Sedgwick-by-Thomas-Taylor-1024x711.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Julian-Sedgwick-by-Thomas-Taylor-768x533.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Julian-Sedgwick-by-Thomas-Taylor.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> \u2026but that can\u2019t be right, surely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway, The Black Dragon \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themysterium.net\/\">Book One in the Mysterium Trilogy<\/a> \u2013 is a fine adventure story for 9-12 and up, and a perfect summer holiday read. Why not find out about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Black-Dragon-Mysterium-Julian-Sedgwick\/dp\/1444913700\/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1373275547&amp;sr=8-7&amp;keywords=mysterium\">Amazon<\/a> before ordering a copy through your local bookshop? Or on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hive.co.uk\/book\/the-black-dragon\/17274584\/\">Hive.co.uk<\/a>? Or call <a href=\"http:\/\/bookshop.blackwell.co.uk\/jsp\/editorial\/browse\/Children\/heffers\/index.jsp\">Heffers<\/a> where I believe there are some signed copies?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congratulations, Julian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to be able to attend the book launch of my good friend Julian Sedwick\u2019s debut children\u2019s novel on Friday, and a jolly fab evening it was too&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-childrens-books","category-novel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mysterium \u2013 The Black Dragon by Julian Sedgwick - Thomas Taylor - Author<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mysterium \u2013 The Black Dragon by Julian Sedgwick - Thomas Taylor - Author\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was pleased to be able to attend the book launch of my good friend Julian Sedwick\u2019s debut children\u2019s novel on Friday, and a jolly fab evening it was too....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/mysterium-the-black-dragon-by-julian-sedgwick\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Thomas Taylor - Author\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-08T09:50:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-13T11:26:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51LCpAM70DL._SY445_.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"290\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"445\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Thomas\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/\",\"name\":\"Thomas Taylor - Author\",\"description\":\"Eerie-on-Sea &amp; 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