• Darren and Steve - an arc

    03 September 2022

    In Cirque Du Freak, I always saw Darren and Steve as two sides of the same coin. While neither is based directly on myself, there are strong elements of me in both characters, and I basically used...

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  • Yet more signed books!

    02 September 2022

    You guys have been enjoying it every time I post photos of books that I've signed for fans in the past, and lots more have been shared with me since my last post, so here are another four that I...

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  • Shanville Monthly, September 2022

    01 September 2022

    The start of September marks the start of autumn time in my part of the world -- the kids are back to school, the days are shortening, there's a nip in the air (though at the moment I'm still able...

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  • ANOTHER typo?!?

    31 August 2022

    I should have known better, in my post of August 26th, when I talked about fixing a typo that a fan had spotted, than to conclude it with the folllowing line:

     

    "by this time tomorrow the book...

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  • Tattoo Tuesday - Morgan’s Bec

    30 August 2022

    Guess who's back in the limelight for another TATTOO TUESDAY post?!? Yep, it's MORGAN, who's been slowly but surely filling up one of his legs with tattoos taken from the UK hardback editions of my...

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  • Underappreciated fantasy movies

    29 August 2022

    Earlier this year, the site COLLIDER ran an article entitled 10 Under-Appreciated Fantasy Movies Worth A Second Look. One of them was a freaky little flick from 2009... :-)

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