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And another character cards giveaway!

I said I’d run another giveaway, so here it is. It’s for the same character cards as last time - do I need to put up a picture? Okay. This what they look like, just in case you’ve forgotten. There are five cards, so not all the characters in the book are there. What do...

Character cards giveaway

Less than two weeks until ‘Path of Beasts’ is published in Australia, and three weeks until it comes out in the USA, and I’ve just received some really cute character cards from my Australian publishers, Allen & Unwin. So I thought I might give some of them away. Here’s what they look like. There’s a...

Path of Beasts audio – listen to an extract

The wonderful Claudia Black has done the audio for Book 3 in the Keepers trilogy: Path of Beasts. You can listen to the first few pages here. Click on ‘select a format/audiobook’ and then on ‘Listen to an excerpt’.

School visits, real and virtual

Path of Beasts comes out in Australia on October 1st and in the US on October 9th. Later in October, I’m going to Sydney and Brisbane to visit some schools. I don’t yet know which ones – the publisher is organising it. But what I wanted to say was this – if I can’t get...

Character cards for Book 3

Remember the gorgeous character cards that Random House made for Museum of Thieves? You can see a fairly bad picture of them here. I’ve just heard that Allen & Unwin, my Australian publishers, are going to do something similar for Path of Beasts. They’ll mainly be available in New Zealand, but I should have a...

The Reading Hour

Do I read a lot? Ha, that’s like asking me if I breathe a lot. Yes, yes, yes! Try dragging me away from a book to do something unnecessary, like eating or sleeping, and you’ll see what I mean. If you’re visiting my website, I suspect that you probably read quite a bit too. But...

Museum of Thieves – the Brazilian Portuguese edition

I love getting parcels, and this morning I got one containing two copies of Museum of Thieves - or rather, Museu de Ladroes. This is the Brazilian Portuguese edition, published in Brazil earlier this year – it’s the first time I’ve seen it. Don’t you love ‘Os Defensores’? Sounds far more dramatic than The Keepers....

Second ‘Path of Beasts’ giveaway – and a new pic of Goldie

This was a quick hand-dive into the hat at the end of a morning’s writing. And the winner of the second (and last for now) copy of Path of Beasts is … Pushy! Congratulations, Pushy, and commiserations to everyone else. That’s the trouble with giveaways – there can be so few winners. As a consolation...

And the winner of the Path of Beasts giveaway is …

I’ve sitting here all morning, dying to dip my hand into the hat and pick out a name so I could see who was going to win this! But I’ve been patient, working away on the edit of Frozen (which is now called Ice Breaker) instead. However the time has come at last. Line up...

Path of Beasts giveaway!

Goldie Roth is about to discover that there are things far worse than punishment chains … It’s a mere two and a half months before Path of Beasts hits the shops and, to celebrate, I’m giving away an advance readers copy (ARC) from Random House in the USA. For those of you who aren’t sure...