Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design

Red Axe Design. Book design & illustration. Author/illustrator ‘Welly Boot Broth’ and ‘Tumshie – The Forgotten Halloween Turnip Lantern’

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@SeafieldHT @ScotsH Thanks for highlighting Tumshie, and lovely to hear it inspired some Halloween learning 💜 #tumshie #teamtumshie

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@StephenJardine @BBCRadioScot Hi Stephen, loved hearing about the poor pumpkin harvest; & relieved to hear you remind listeners that we Scots aye carved turnips. I wrote & drew a children's book about it: ‘Tumshie’. Keep the flame burning, if only for the aroma of burnt neep 🥰

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

Thank you @scotlit for my copy of #NewWritingScotland42 which arrived today. Hot! 🔥

#redaxedesign #bookcoverdesign #scottishpublishing

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

Thanks once again to ASL @scotlit for inviting me to design the cover for this year's New Writing Scotland. A privilege and a pleasure as always. #Scottishpublishing

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@WildseedZen @VagabondVoices Many thanks Jerry. Your novel is really inspirational, and my cover is — shall we say — "not my usual". I'm very pleased it's been nominated 😊

[Lost Glasgow @LostGlasgow]

A big light has just gone out.

John Byrne: artist, writer, wit, auto-didact, Paisley buddy, slab boy, roller of fine roll-ups, music-lover, sharer of hairy dug stories, driest of wits, big wheezy laugher, kindest and sweetest of men, and always the best dressed guy in the room.

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

Thank you! I had such a fun day, and loved reading to the wee ones especially 🥰 #tumshie

[Rigside and Rural Communities Nursery @RigsideandRural]

On Halloween, the Rigside Preschoolers were invited over to the school for Story time with Mark Mechin, an author who wrote Tumshie, the forgotten Halloween turnip lantern! 🎃 Thank you for the invite! #transition #partnerships #buildingrelationships @RigsidePS

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@Jennife09761350 @the_bookfairies @BookfairiesScot @BookfairiesEdin @WaverleyBooks Thank you Jenny ❤️

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@Jennife09761350 @the_bookfairies @BookfairiesScot @BookfairiesEdin @WaverleyBooks Book Fairies spreading the word! Thanks so much #turniplantern

[Jennifer @Jennife09761350]

It’s Halloween and the Book Scaries are celebrating some spooky reads!

Who will be lucky enough to find this copy of #Tumshie by Mark Mechan in #Edinburgh?

#Ibelieveinbookfairies #bookfairiesedinburgh #bookfairiesscotland #TheBookScaries #Morningside

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

Thanks so much @CaileanSteed ...

[Cailean Steed 🏳️‍⚧️ @CaileanSteed]

The Boy (age 6 1/2) is loving this sweet wee read by @Tullothy, all about Scottish Hallowe’en traditions (including how flippin difficult it is to carve a turnip). Strongly recommend picking it up, along with his other book Welly Boot Broth!

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@MissSimpsonRPS @RigsidePS Teacher's tears 😅

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@laurafjones Hi Laura, sorry for adding to your DMs — but I’ve sent you some sample interiors.

I’ve over 20 years’ worth of experience in complex layouts and covers, in everything from translated poetry to coffee-table illustrated LF books. My covers folio is here: https://t.co/OxjAvXOtgn

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@chapelhallPS Amazing work! And it's so good to see name of #DudleyWatkins being taught and appreciated. He was an all time great.

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@laclarabow @cocteautriplets A semantic guddle. The Swede, pictured, is a "Swedish Turnip". My understanding anyway. Or just a turnip in Scotland. So calling it a Scottish Swede is technically correct (grown in Scotland presumably?) But it's a bit daft. Maybe the @LidlGB
Marketing team are all tumshies 🤔

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Decorations for the Ladybird Christmas tree, 1964
#FrankHampson

[Vagabond Voices @VagabondVoices]

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[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@PressTaproot @thedarkhorsemag @MairiMurphy1 @maryfordneal @GalleryBook22 Sorry to hear it Patrick. Hope all ok with you and yours. See you next time hopefully.

[Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design @Tullothy]

@VagabondVoices @Saltire_Society Thank you!

[Vagabond Voices @VagabondVoices]

Wowee! @Tullothy's phenomenal work on The Sweetness of Demons by Anne Pia has been recognised by the @Saltire_Society National Book Awards!

Our biggest congratulations to Mark, and to all the amazing covers his work sits alongside ♥️