Jiggy McCue

Michael Lawrence originally trained as a graphic designer and photographer, but subsequently became a television script reader, a press officer, an art and antiques dealer, a painter and sculptor, and several other things he would rather not talk about. His first book, a novel for children, was published in 1995. He is now the full time author of picture books and older fiction such as the popular Jiggy McCue stories and the Aldous Lexicon trilogy.

Jiggy McCue was an accident. I was supposed to be writing an educational book the day he and his pals ran into my life with blankets over their heads. I only meant to write one book about them even then, not an entire series. So how come I've written all these others?

Search me.

The latest - One For All and All For Lunch - is the eleventh. Yes, the eleventh. You'd think I'd got nothing better to do than write stories about these kids and their stupid problems, wouldn't you?

And it gets worse. I've already written a twelfth in the series! That's Rudie Dudie, a sort of sequel to Nudie Dudie, which will be published next year.

But worse even than a twelfth book is that I'm now writing a Jiggy spin-off series. I must be crazy. I can't tell you anything about that yet (my cruel editor threatens to saw the legs off my highchair if I do) except that it will be very different to all the other Jiggys.

Watch this space. (Though I wouldn't bother personally. There must be better things to do than watch spaces.)

Jiggy McCue Stories