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Spring has sprung

The adders are busy on the common. Yesterday evening I was lucky enough to see two of them being extremely friendly, something I haven't witnessed before. We also have a pair of great tits nesting the garden, and what looks like a few thousand tadpoles in the pond! Spring has been very late here in Surrey, but at last there are flowers on the strawberries and blossom on the apple trees. Lots of baby figs on the fig tree, too!

Creating Imaginary Creatures

I've got a new post on Do Authors Dream of Electric Books? It's about fantasy creatures, and how we amalgamate them them from different animals that we already know, as we can't imagine what we haven't experienced.

New blog post on electric Authors

Check out my post on 17th March about re-illustrating books for the Kindle on http://authorselectric.blogspot.co.uk/

New Pinterest page

I now have a Pinterest page, which is pinned with my own illustrations, as well as book covers, photographs, and my father's paintings. http://pinterest.com/kfaddle/

There are a few website problems at the moment - if you w...

There are a few website problems at the moment - if you want to contact me, please do it through comments here. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!

Three new Kindle versions of books - with new illustratio...

Three new Kindle versions of books - with new illustrations. I'll post one from each book below.

It's my day!

I'm doing the guest spot on this blog today - it's all about how I use my travels in what I write.
Do Authors Dream of Electric Books?

Clever parakeet!

 The new invaders around here are ring-necked parakeets, which are highly intelligent. They're self-confident birds, but they do realise that they're no match for a squirrel, which is a lot heavier. There's one way to keep the squirrel at the foot of the bird-table though, and make sure it doesn't climb up and turf you off. Feed it! This parakeet spent twenty minutes dropping seed onto the ground, then cocking its head on one side to check that the squirrel was too busy eating it to consider shinning up the metal pole. In this way, the bird managed an uninterrupted breakfast...

Kindle version of The Divide

There is now a Kindle version of The Divide, with new illustrations and a new cover done by me. The other books will follow.
Link to Amazon site

New Book

I have a new book for adults out today, called Beware of Men with Moustaches.


It's only available as a download, either to a Kindle, an iPad or a computer.

Link to Amazon UK page