• Summer and November snaps

    05 March 2023

    I'm just back from a lovely day-trip to my local beach in Ballybunion with the family. While we mainly go there during the summer months, we do try to nip back at least once in the winter time, on...

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  • Zero time - part 3

    04 March 2023

    I've featured quite a few black and white drawings by a fan called ZERO in earlier fan art Saturday posts, and here are four more, all relating to The Vampire's Assistant, book 2 of my Saga Of...

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  • Running low on memes

    03 March 2023

    It's been a while since I featured any MEMES in a post, so let's get that fixed right here, right now!!

    These were all shared with me by Tweeters. The first is by FESTIVALOFTHEUNDEAD, the second...

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  • World Book Day 2023

    02 March 2023

    Happy World Book Day, everyone!! I don't think it will come as any surprise if I mention that books are important to me EVERY day, but it's nice that they get this annual public boost, and I know...

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  • March of the Shanville Monthly

    01 March 2023

    The March issue of my online monthly newsletter has been posted to the web. I reveal a few tantalising details about what will hopefully be my next book release... there's a Hungarian Archibald Lox...

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  • Tattoo Tuesday - Trish

    28 February 2023

    Tattoo Tuesday is back!! And it's a double whammy, courtesy of TRISH, who liked my "Even in death may you be triumphant" quote so much that she had it tattooed TWICE, on one patch of flesh just as...

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