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The Darkest Corners
The concluding part of this darkly funny, horror series Darren Shan called... read more
The 13th Horseman
Drake is surprised to find three Horsemen of the Apocalypse playing snakes and... read more
Doc Mortis
The fourth thrilling book in this darkly funny horror series Darren Shan called... read more
Raggy Maggie
The second book in the award-winning Invisible Fiends series. Billy is the... read more
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Monthly Archives: April 2009
This will blow your mind.
Something has been bothering me for the past few months, ever since I saw what I can only describe as “a very surprising thing” on children’s television. It was something that made me question everything I have ever believed. It was something that forced me to realise that not only do I not have all the answers, but I don’t even know what all the questions are. It was something called Baby Looney Toons. I came across it quite by …
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12 Tips for Pro Writing – Part 3
In the last two blog posts we’ve looked at tips 1-8, so logically let us now conclude with tips 9-12. Then I can get back to writing any old guff about wasps or whatever on here, instead of trying to seem all clever an’ that. 9. Experience beats research The internet is great. In fact, I can honestly say that I would seriously struggle to readjust to a world without the internet. I’d probably go quite, quite mad with grief, …
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12 Tips for Pro Writing – Part 2
In the last post, we looked at four tips that could help you on your way to writing professionally. I should have mentioned at the beginning that when I saw “writing professionally” I mean becoming a published writer of fiction. A lot of the tips will apply to other forms of writing – articles, non-fiction, screenplays, etc – but wannabe novelists are who the article is really aimed at. Anyway, here are tips 5-8. 5. Comfortable is not always good …
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12 Tips for Pro Writing – Part 1
During a recent school visit, I was asked what you need to do to become a writer. Because we were about to run out of time, the only advice I was able to give was “practice”. But of course there’s more to becoming a professional writer than just writing a lot. I may not have had time to go into detail during the school visit, but I can afford to expand a bit more now that the threat of the …
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How to write a novel in 3 days
Step 1. Make sure it’s a novel aimed at 5-9 year olds, and as such is only 13,000 words long. Step 2. Write at an average pace of 4,333 words per day. Step 3. There is no step 3. That’s it. Simple, eh? Seriously, it is. I’ve just done it. Twice. Thanks to my lightning fast fingers I have managed to write two books for Egmont in a grand total of six days. There was a break in between while …
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More lovely praise for Invisible Fiends
Sam Enthoven, author of The Black Tattoo and TIM: Defender of Earth, read INVISIBLE FIENDS: MR MUMBLES recently and gave me some positively glowing feedback. Fair warmed the cockles o’ me heart, so it did. He rounded of his review with this, my second author quote for the series: “Young people who doubt that books can be every bit as fast and frightening as games or films are in for a most wonderfully nasty surprise.” Thanks, Sam. The tenner’s in …
Amagone
Apologies for the pun in the title of this post. It was rubbish, I know. Just a quick post to say that I am in the process of stripping away any and all links to Amazon from the site. I’ve already removed the links from the My Books page and will be going through all the posts over the next few days, stripping out the links from in there, too. I’ve also hidden the “Now Reading” widget thing until such …
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