Welcome to the Waldo the Worm Blog!

Here you will find info on all things Waldo, like events, new things to buy, Where’s Waldo? and the progress of Waldo 2!
In fact, that’s a good place to start, the as yet untitled Waldo the Worm 2.

It’s been in the making since about September last year. I came up with a brief outline of what the story was going to be about. Then I planned out roughly how many pages it would have and what would happen on each of those pages and what the characters would be doing. Around this time Waldo 1 was unleashed on the public and the Promotion Juggernaut left Disco Towers armed with all manner of merchandise. I didn’t get another look in on Waldo 2 until Christmas.

I was hoping over Christmas I would be able to write all the words and rhymes that make up the story, but I spent the most of my two week holiday doing nothing and deservedly so. 2009 had been a busy year.

Throughout January and February I was writing the actual story, coming up with rhymes that didn’t sound silly and sticking them together to make the book. I find this part the trickiest, it’s hard to write a story that rhymes, using short simple sentences and that can appeal to children. I managed to finish the first draft by early March and sent it off to my good friend Shirley Ives for a proof read, it will probably get tweaked right up until its ready to go to the printers!

I’m currently working on the design, I want it to look more interesting than the last book, with more detail and things going on in the background. I’m on page 2 at the min, so its taking a wee while! I’ve had to design 3 new characters for this one!! I’m not giving anything away at present, but one of them is an alien!

In terms of when its ready I really don’t know, I was hoping it would be ready for Christmas, but given current workload and what not, I cant see it being ready until about January. It doesn’t seem like a good idea to launch a book then, so I was thinking of taking my time and launching it ready for the following academic year; September 2010, that might disappoint a few people, but you wouldn’t want me to rush it, would you?

In the meantime why not visit the shop and buy something to tide you (and me) over, whoooppppiie!

Dave