Spent Saturday with my brother, Declan, who was moving to a new flat, and then with my uncle Derek and his boys. A nice, relaxed day. On Sunday I went to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-final — Spurs...

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...

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...

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...

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...