Author Archive
Friday, January 28th, 2011
Free to Fall or Fly
Time for a check on the state of the sinister masterplan as it stands this Jan 2011… Phases One and Two are proceeding nicely. Both The Black Tattoo and Tim, Defender of the Earth are still out there finding readers. THANK YOU to everyone who has left lovely messages in the books’ websites’ Guestbooks lately […]
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Gentleman of LETTERS!
Just before Christmas I received a parcel containing masses of wonderful letters from students at the last school I visited, Bushey Meads. Some of these letters contained questions for me. Here those questions are below, with my best attempts at answers. ;D From Chloe K.: What inspired you to be an author? What inspired me […]
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Choose Your Favourite Favourite
You might be aware that I always like to have a favourite word. I’ve been putting these on Twitter (and the various other places where the feed from that appears) since – gulp – April 2009, and recently a couple of people have asked to see a full list of all my favourite words so […]
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
A Very Happy Festive Wossname To All Readers!
If anyone gives/gave you Crawlers for Christmas a) I’m amazed b) I’m delighted and c) the person who gave it to you is awesome. You can tell them I said so. 😀 Coming Soon! By (some!) Popular Demand! A complete list of my Twittered favourite words so far – plus the chance to vote for […]
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Loitering Snow Goons
Found these two shady characters (above, below) lurking on my balcony on Saturday night. When I approached the first to try to make some friendly conversation he became quite aggressive. Here he is (below) telling me in no uncertain terms to get out of his face and go back indoors!
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Music for Monsters
It’s the time of year for roundups, when pundits fill space in blogs and papers by making lists of things. In my case, as it’s been about a year since the last time I did it, I thought I’d pass along some music recommendations. If my neighbours have ever wondered this year just what that […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
Bloody Christmas
The Chainsaw Gang‘s shadowy mastermind Sarwat Chadda has struck again. Myself, Alex Bell, Alexander Gordon Smith, William Hussey, Steve Feasey, Jon Mayhew, Sarah Silverwood, Stephen Deas and David Gatward have all been nastily assimilated into a terrifying, all-consuming, unholy mutant gene-splice of Blog Tour and… Christmas Carol? Yes: as I type these words it’s just […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Starring…
At my visit to Bushey Meads School yesterday not just one but two of the young people I spoke to asked to have their first names used in my next book. I did my best to warn them that their names might go to characters who, say, eat children but, strangely, that didn’t seem to […]
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
Advance, Clanking Janissaries!
Yesterday I visited Northgate High School with a squadron of shiny killer robots. Here I am giving the order to attack: Only joking. My thanks to everyone I met and spoke to at the school for the warmth of their welcome and – particularly – an excellent lunch. It was a brilliant visit. I didn’t […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
Harbinger of Boom
I love visiting The City of London School. There are so many famous London landmarks nearby that I’ve DESTROYED in my stories! Most of the young people I talked to today have actually been on school trips to the Barbican, just like the characters in Crawlers… I hope they like what I’ve done with the […]
