• A final farewell to 2021!

    24 April 2022

    My daughter Gaia has a good ear for a tune -- one of her favourite songs at the moment, which she had me play to her in the car a short while ago when we were driving back from a playground, is...

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  • The Tall and the short of it!

    23 April 2022

    I'm sure you're all familiar with the phrase, "The long and the short of it." But I think it's time we tweaked that to... "The Tall and the short of it!!" Because today I'm featuring four piece of...

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  • Fancha Mart?!?

    22 April 2022

    I've added a LOT of fan art to my folder over the last few months (much of it by a busy, talented fan on Twitter called Noel), so I'm going for a double-hitter this weekend, with four pieces today,...

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  • Ginger Nuts of Halloween

    21 April 2022

    Ginger Nuts of Horror is a fabulous website for those whose tastes in fiction run a little bit... bloody!! Last Halloween they published an article about the lack of male lead characters in YA...

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  • The Times of Tunbridge Wells

    20 April 2022

    The was a nice mention for the upcoming Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival in the Times of Tunbridge Wells, providing its readers with a brief overview of what they could expect in the children's...

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  • T S Hathaway reviews - part 3

    19 April 2022

    A blogger called T.S. Hathaway recently reviewed all 12 books in my Saga Of Darren Shan / Cirque Du Freak series. I provided links for the first six a while back (some are also in the April issue...

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