Today is the first day of Arsenic for Tea’s month as Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month. For all of February, the front page of Waterstones.com looks like this:

Which is pretty knock-out amazing, if you ask me.

I’ve written a blog for Waterstones about why I write mystery novels for children, and another for Girls Heart Books thanking Waterstones booksellers for getting behind the books – I seriously am so grateful to them for how enthusiastic they’ve been.

Today I went out in Cambridge to get my first proper sightings of the book in the wild, and see if I could see any displays – and I certainly did. I was expecting some tables, maybe a wall display . . . and then what I saw was THIS:

I mean. Really. That is the most BEAUTIFUL THING I have ever seen.

Inside was pretty amazing too – several tables, lots of advertisements for my launch next weekend (3pm, Cambridge Waterstones Children’s department!) and even a lovely wall display next to some Harry Potter books(!).

Then (once I had recovered from all that) I went over to Heffers, where the book is also beautifully featured on LOTS of tables. And on a 3 for 2 offer, no less!

The lovely Heffers booksellers even let me sign some copies – so, Cambridge people, get over there for your signed books NOW!

All in all, an incredibly exciting and successful book-hunting afternoon. I (and my boyfriend, helpful documenter of all of the above) definitely deserved a Fitzbillies bunbreak at the end of it.