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Facebook CONTEST!

CONTEST KLAXON!! I need a new Facebook banner! I am rubbish at design! My husband designed the one above, which is the one I’m using now. It’s ACE. But I need a new one! And it struck me that many of you are VERY talented. And pretty. And nice. So let’s make a deal! Anyone [...]

Night School TV ad

Recently, I asked the wonderful people at Trailermade Films to put together a TV ad for the Night School books. They took bits and pieces of the book trailers, added some cool music and turned it all into a BRILLIANT 30-second TV ad. It will run on the Sky Arts channel over the next couple of [...]

A reverse POV for Christmas

A bunch of you (*Waves at Eveletta*) have been lobbying for a long time for me to write a reverse POV scene from Sylvain’s perspective. But I’ve never done it until now. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to write it but I’m very glad I did. He’s a fascinating, conflicted, complex [...]

Night School characters in the flesh

A few days ago I asked you what Night School characters looked like in your heads. The response was awesome. And really interesting, too! Loads of you see Sylvain as blonde or dark blonde. Most of you see Carter as fair skinned, and Allie as a red-head. Lots of you suggested actors who looked a [...]

Night School Characters: How do they look?

This thing happened recently, and I’m going to share it with you. We put up the UK book trailer for Night School Fracture a few months ago, as you know. Most people liked it. Readers from the UK and Spain, also France, said essentially “That’s exactly how I see the characters.”   There was a [...]

Resistance UK cover REVEALED

At last! The UK cover for Night School 4 is ready to be seen. I absolutely love it. The stark, black-and-white background, the flame of hair. It’s one of my favourite covers so far. Night School 4 will be published in JUNE 2014. I know an earlier version of this cover was leaked a few [...]

Authors for Philippines

We’ve all seen the tragic images on the news after the recent typhoon struck the Philippines. Seeing things like that can make you feel helpless – you want to help, but how can you? Authors feel exactly the same. So we’ve come up with a way to raise money to help people left homeless and [...]

Killing your darlings

I never killed anyone I really loved until the long, cold winter I spent writing my second novel. I had killed before, of course. In Night School I killed one person. A girl. A minor character. Someone who wasn’t terribly nice to my main character. Or terribly interesting. It was upsetting as crimes always are but, let’s [...]

Interview about writing

I’ve been interviewed by the lovely Victoria Walters about writing. It was such a fun interview, I thought I’d share it with you. We talked more about the technique of writing than the books themselves, and how I got published. I don’t talk about this very often, so this one’s for the aspiring writers out [...]

CJ’s Answers

  For the last two weeks you’ve been asking me questions, here on my website, on Facebook and on Twitter. Most of that time I’ve been on the road, touring the UK to support Night School Fracture, so I filmed my answers all over the place – in Gloucestershire, Monmouth, and Dorset. In my car, [...]