• Love? Nay! Valentine? Yay!!

    09 April 2010
    Flew over to London on Thursday and saw Love Never Dies at the theatre. It’s the sequel to Phantom of the Opera, and alas it was as redundant as I imagined it would be. A slow, poorly structured...
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  • Hard day’s thinking

    06 April 2010

    Spent today playing around with ideas for the later books of my new series. I’ve already written the first five, so you’d think I’d have a good idea of where to go next!! But although I know...

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  • Hard day’s thinking

    06 April 2010
    Spent today playing around with ideas for the later books of my new series. I’ve already written the first five, so you’d think I’d have a good idea of where to go next!! But although I know where...
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  • A different approach

    05 April 2010
    I did a re-edit of the first book of what will hopefully be my next long series after The Saga of Larten Crepsley. Even though I haven’t revealed what the series will be about (and won’t for quite...
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  • Step carefully

    04 April 2010
    A fan called Lily sent me the following question today: When you were sending stuff out to agents (like a query), how did you go about saying you wanted to have a series? I’ve heard several people...
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  • To film or not to film?

    02 April 2010

    I read an interesting letter from a 70 year old film and book fan in the San Francisco Chronicle today (isn’t the internet incredible?!?). He wrote: Author Pat Conroy (“Prince of Tides”) once...

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