• Arra Sails essay

    09 December 2024

    Arra Sails remains one of the most popular characters from my Cirque Du Freak books, even though she didn't have a lot of page time in the series. She actually was never planned to be as important...

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  • Terrified Troll update December 2024

    05 December 2024

    As many of you hopefully already know, I'm releasing my first ever picture book next year, with the artist Eva Byrne, called The Terrified Troll. It's initially coming out as a signed, limited...

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  • Genius or chancer?!?

    04 December 2024

    A Tweeter called FESTIE recently marvelled at what looks like a very subtle Easter Egg in Birth Of A Killer, the first book of my Saga Of Larten Crepsley series.

     

    Mention of a bedpan in the...

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  • Reunited with my bookmark

    15 November 2024

    The Shans moved back into our house this day last week, after having been out for almost two years following a fire. The place is currently full of boxes and crates, containing everything that was...

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  • Trinity Academy Halifax event

    14 November 2024

    A busy day on the virtual events front. Did one with a school in the UK this morning, and doing another with a school in the USA tonight. Effortlessly spanning the continents -- that's me!!!

     

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  • Demonata progress

    07 November 2024

    A little update on the Demonata TV adaptation.

     

    The team (Max and Ijaz) have been working hard on scripts for the last few months, and have now sent a bunch to me, for me to read through,...

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