• 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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  • ThriftBooks

    04 February 2022

    A very happy Shanster in the USA got in touch with me recently to say they had picked up an entire set of my Cirque Du Freak books at a bargain price on ThriftBooks, and suggested I bring the site...

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  • Bay House LRC

    03 February 2022

    I was stunned when the staff of Bay House Learning Resource Centre in the UK posted a photo of a sculpture of a transforming Grubbs Grady, based on the hardback cover of the British edition of Wolf...

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