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October 23, 2020
5 Scary Reads for the Halloween season
If you want to get into the mood for the Halloween season, nothing tops a scary read, or two. Whether your preferred scares are ghosts, vampires, re-animated corpses, demonic, or psychological, I have a book to suit. The Graveyard Book The Graveyard Book is aimed at a 12+ readership but, in my opinion, readers of …
September 25, 2020
Book 2 of the Haven Chronicles is on the way
I can officially announce that Burning Chair Publishing have offered me a publishing contract for the second book in my YA fantasy series. On 14th September, I happily emailed my signed publishing contract back to Burning Chair and began the process of editing my manuscript after receiving feedback from Pete and Si. So what’s the …
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August 3, 2020
A chat with my publisher
If I haven’t mentioned it enough already, my debut novel Haven Wakes was launched by the wonderful Burning Chair Publishing last year. They’re busy people with all their 2020 book launches, but I finally managed to catch up with Pete and Si for a chat and ask them to share their writerly/publish-y knowledge. Here’s what …
July 21, 2020
Summer 2020 Reading
It’s summer and time to get on with some holiday reading, so I thought I’d share what books I’ll be delving into for the next few weeks. 2020 Together This is an anthology of shorts, collated to raise money for the NHS Charities Together Covid-19 Appeal. It features a whole range of artwork, photography, poetry, …
July 1, 2020
Broken magic (or the one where it all went wrong)
On the last day of June, something awful happened. MailerLite broke. Let me explain. I use MailerLite to send out my author newsletter at the end of each month, but due to an infrastructure upgrade – “the most complex project in our history” – that has proved impossible. Fingers crossed everything will be fine and …
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June 25, 2020
June Catch Up
This time last year, I posted a blog about what was going on in my life: I’d just finished the developmental edit of my debut novel Haven Wakes and forwarded it to the guys at Burning Chair. My chatty muse had taken advantage of the fact that I’d finished my dev edit by throwing a …
May 11, 2020
Author Interview with M J Mallon
Today, I’d like to introduce you to M J Mallon, YA author, poet, photographer and book blogger. 1. When did you first call yourself a writer? I’d say I first called myself a writer when I started my blog six years ago. A lot has happened since then: I published my YA fantasy The Curse …
May 5, 2020
How to leave a reader review #BeKindToAnAuthor
Okay, hands up, I’m sure a lot of you already know how to leave a reader review. In fact some of my marvellous readers have done just that: A very good read especially for teenagers but as an adult I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of thrilling twists and turns and a story line that keeps …
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April 23, 2020
5 facts about the Magic System in the Haven Chronicles
“So it’s more like super-hero powers than wands and spells then?” “Super-hero. I like that,” said Hartley. “It’s actually a little of each.” Haven Wakes, and the other books in the Haven Chronicles series, are filled with magic. I knew from the outset that I didn’t want to copy what magic is assumed to be …
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March 26, 2020
Help for self-isolating readers
With all the worry over Coronavirus in 2020 and the massive upheaval of self isolation and social distancing, we can often forget to check in on each other. So first off, how are you? A lot of people in the UK, in fact around the world, have found themselves forced to stay at home and …
