Monthly Archives: January 2010

Spotted a very familiar face staring out at me from a shelf in my local WH Smith today… Say what you like about old Mr Mumbles – he might be a murdering imaginary psychopath, but he sure keeps good company. I’m a huge fan of both Steve Feasey’s Changeling series and Hunger, the sequel to the brilliant Gone, by Michael Grant, so seeing my book sitting next to those two on the shelf was a very nice moment indeed. The …

Amazon have now got the first book in the Invisible Fiends series, Mr Mumbles, available to buy! It’s no longer in pre-order status, meaning if you order yours now you’ll probably receive it before the official launch day of 4th Feb. You’d better hurry though, there are only a handful of copies left. Scoot along to this page to order yours now.

Copies of Mr Mumbles should soon be appearing on bookshelves up and down this fine nation of ours. If anyone spots one, be sure to let me know. If you fancy emailing a digital photo of the book on the shelf, that would be excellent!

Just got back from Kilchuimen Primary School in the Highlands, where I spent the day running story-writing workshops and helping them generate ideas for a short story anthology the whole school is putting together. It was a great day, with lots of fantastic ideas whizzing around, and I can’t wait to read the finished stories. The school visit today is just one of a whole heap of events I have coming up over the next few weeks. I’m visiting two …

Yesterday saw me begin the first in a long series of upcoming events as I begin promoting INVISIBLE FIENDS around the country. Easing me in gently was a meeting with members of the Cowie Library Chatterbooks group, near Stirling. The group were brilliantly enthusiastic, asking lots of questions, and coming up with some great ideas for characters of their own. After the event they got me to sign some of the Ben 10 books they had brought with them, and …

A belated Happy New Year to everyone reading this. I’m not quite sure how it happened, but between Christmas, New Year and then my Birthday (January 6th, people, where were the pressies?!) I haven’t found time to update the blog. It wasn’t all just down to revelry and merriment, though. I had quite a bit of actual work to catch up with too, and so between that and the daily nine-hour Rock Band sessions I just could not get to …