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Another day, another new website to tell you all about. Pestilence – one of the Horseman of the Apocalype and a major player in my upcoming novel THE 13TH HORSEMAN – has started keeping a diary, which I’m publishing online without his knowledge or consent. I’ll continue to publish his diary entries right up until [...]

As any writer who does events in schools will tell you, one of the most common questions we get asked is “Where do your ideas come from?”. There are as many answers to that question as there are writers in the world, but I thought I’d share the story of where my most recent idea [...]

I’ve been clearing out an old external hard drive tonight as I attempt to get myself organised for the new year ahead. While doing so I came across this rough cover design for the first Invisible Fiends book, Mr Mumbles. The art, as ever, is by the brilliant Jonny Duddle. Which cover do you think [...]

Tomorrow (5th of January) is the official publication day for the penultimate Invisible Fiends book The Beast. I’ve decided against doing blog tours of any of that stuff for this book and will instead be posting a lot of content here on the blog that you’ll hopefully find interesting. I’m going to start by talking [...]

It’s a real quickie this one, but I wanted to let you all know that I’ve written a review of the Marvel Ultimate Graphic Novel Collection over on my other website, The Phantom Zone. The review is of the first book to be released in the series, The Amazing Spider-Man: Coming Home, and you can [...]

Darren over at the fantastic BookZone4Boys has written the first review of the lastest INVISIBLE FIENDS book, THE BEAST. Darren has been a huge supporter of the series since it started, and this review is no exception. “This is definitely one of my favourite series of books for the 9+ age group of the past [...]

In a recent survey on Twitter a lot of my followers said they’d like me to post more writing advice here on the blog. The following blog post, then, is aimed primarily at those readers who are interested in becoming authors themselves, but a lot of it can be applied to anyone so don’t go [...]

Now obviously you know I’ve got a blog, or how else would you be reading this? But did you know you can also find me on Facebook? Oh aye, I’m dead up to date with technology an’ that. If you enjoy my books then hurry up and become an official fan over on the Facebook [...]

One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2012 is to learn to be more assertive when it comes to promoting my books. I’ve always been wary of coming over as pushy, but what the Hell, I don’t write the things so no-one can read them. I’m not even going to wait for New Year to [...]

Well, Christmas has been and gone and I’m hoping that Santa was nice to you all. He was very nice to me and brought me a Kindle ebook reader, even though – whisper it – I’m not really a very big fan of ebooks. I much prefer the feel smell and taste of a real [...]