• The value of a good editor

    29 March 2021

    My editor, Zoe, returned her notes for the Volume 2 Archibald Lox books to me last Friday, and I'll be getting stuck into those over the next few weeks, as I work my way through the very final...

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  • Two years of Gaia

    28 March 2021

    It was my daughter Gaia's second birthday last week. We couldn't do much, since we're in lockdown, but we had a small party for her, and there were lots of presents to open, so she was a happy...

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  • A quartet of Mishka

    27 March 2021

    It's a quartet of Mishka on my blog today. Mishka is a fan of my books who produced these three lovely drawings, plus the short comic strip, based on my Cirque Du Freak characters. Enjoy!

     

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  • “I’d like to buy the world a Shan…”

    26 March 2021

    If you enjoyed my globally-flavoured posts this week, and found yourself wishing there was a page where you could check out the covers for every Darren Shan book ever published, from all the...

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  • United States of Archibald

    25 March 2021

    I'm going to wrap up my "Week of International Reviews" (well, in reality it's "Four days of International Reviews" but that doesn't scan so neatly!) with an American review for Archibald Lox And...

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  • Spanish review and covers

    24 March 2021

    I hadn't meant to turn this week's blog posts into some kind of an International Reviews Week theme, but that's the way it's worked out, so what the hell, let's go with it for at least one more...

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