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National Libraries Day

3 February 2012

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Tomorrow (Sat 4th February) is National Libraries Day, a day when people up and down the country are being urged to get down to their local library and be reminded of just how flippin’ brilliant it is. Because libraries are brilliant, and right now they really need your help, with countless branches being closed across [...]

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Cover Concept. And a Massive Spider.

7 January 2012

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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 [...]

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Evolution of The Beast

4 January 2012

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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 [...]

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Find me on Facebook

30 December 2011

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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 [...]

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7 Reasons to Read Invisible Fiends

29 December 2011

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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 [...]

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5 Facts About Curtis Jobling

28 November 2011

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Tomorrow sees the beginning of what is destined to be the greatest battle in the history of all mankind. A thousand years hence, citizens of what shall by then be known as “Baztopia” (currently “Earth”) will look back and say “ooh, that was quite exciting, wasn’t it?”, before returning to their blissful, joy-filled lives. Because [...]

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Book Cover Wars 2011

31 October 2011

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You may remember that last year, The Crowmaster was one of the finalists in the Book Cover Wars event held over at Mr Ripley’s Enchanted Books. I asked you to vote and you voted in your tens! Sadly, The Crowmaster was beaten by… someone else. I forget who. That pesky Shan, probably. Anyway, that was [...]

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Mr Mumbles comes to life

30 October 2011

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Utterly fab author, Gillian Philip, sent me a message on Twitter to say that her son, Jamie, was going to dress up as Mr Mumbles for Halloween. Jamie has been a fan of the Invisible Fiends series since he, his twin sister, Lucy, and the rest of their class came along to see me at [...]

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Scream Street: Shiver of the Phantom

22 October 2011

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The final book in me old mucker, Tommy Donbavand’s SCREAM STREET series has recently been published, and to mark the occasion Tommy has written an exclusive thirteen part story which is running over a whole load of blogs. When Tommy asked if I’d be happy to host a chapter of the story here I jumped [...]

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Meeting Neil Gaiman

28 August 2011

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Last night, I met a hero of mine. It was in a crypt below a church with the thunder of drums hanging heavy and ominous in the air. And a right cracking night it was, too. You might not have heard of Neil Gaiman. At least, you might not have heard of him if you’re [...]

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