• Evra drawings

    12 February 2022

    22 years after he was first unleashed on an unsuspecting world in Cirque Du Freak, the snakeboy Evra Von continues to be an extremely popular character among budding artists. Here are four of the...

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  • Culturess - TV adaptations

    10 February 2022

    There was an interesting article on the Culturess web site a while back, entitled Book Series Could Benefit More From Television Adaptations (as opposed to movie adaptations). The thrust of the...

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  • Creative curricula

    09 February 2022

    When Cirque Du Freak was first published in the UK, my publishers were very worried that lots of teachers and librarians would rise up in a furious wave to condemn it -- although Goosebumps and...

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  • A brace of Spanish reviews

    08 February 2022

    Although my books for some reason never sold especially well in their Spanish translations (my publishers only published the first nine books in my Cirque Du Freak series, in three trilogy...

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  • February competition

    07 February 2022

    To celebrate the release of Volume 5 of the Cirque Du Freak manga omnibus this month (which collects books 9 and 10 of the series), I'm running a competition with SIX signed, dated copies of VOLUME...

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  • Random family snaps

    06 February 2022

    I normally try to find a linking theme when I post Shan clan photos on a Sunday, but this week I just picked four random shots from my folder -- partly because I have quite a few random snaps that...

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