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An Experiment

So, I've just come across this odd thing called 'Thunderclap'. And what is it? It's a newly launched website that allows you to mobilise a social media 'flash mob'. If you click through to this page...you'll see three RED BUTTONS. These three buttons represent three different ways you can support me; a tweet, a Facebook status or a Tumblr post. Thunderclap, coordinates these and synchronizes them to all happen at the exact same moment, creating a trend 'spike'. As an experiment in utilising

REMADE: FIRST GLIMPSE!

So, ladies and gents...here's the cover!!!! What do you folks think? I really like it. Maybe a touch too gruesome for younger readers. But then...on the other hand, maybe the cover should flag up that this ISNT a cuddly-wuddly story? I dunno. I'm hoping to give a few people nightmares...maybe even put a few people off their dinners, so, yeah....let's go with this. By the way, the more observant of you will have noticed a new tab on my website for the ReMADE series. For now there's just the cover

World Book Week: Touring Do's/Don'ts

  As it's world book week I'm off on my travels again visiting schools and talking to students. Which I love doing by the way. (Let's face it...it's the only time I'm let out of my padded cell).   Having heard of a few moans and groans on the social ether I thought I might compile a list of do's/don'ts for authors visiting schools. Not so much a code of conduct....more a list of guidelines.   Authors:   DO try and arrive not reeking of Redbull and - if you smoke...I used to - of fags. I know the

So, that APP I mentioned a couple of times?

Well now...it's available, right now, on iTunes and Google Play!   What's it all about, I hear you ask? Simples....remember those famous old last stand war movies we all love? ZULU, GETTYSBURG, 300, ALAMO, Battle of The Bulge...imagine playing those last stands for yourself; controlling your men, building the defences, healing your men between waves of enemy, fixing the barricades. Imagine that, now...imagine it was ZOMBIES doing the attacking!   ZOMBIE LAST STANDS!!!!!!   With the first

My 50th: A Medieval Banquet

Wow...that was fun. Actually at first I wasn't keen to celebrate my 50th, I mean...what's to celebrate? Another year older, another year closer to death. But my partner, D, suggested, to make it more fun for me that we should go fancy dress. So, being a keen Game Of Thrones fan, I decided I wanted to be KING FOR THE DAY so I could get dressed up and posh and wear a Ned Stark wig. So then, just family and close friends invited, a small scale, a cozy venue, some hired medieval musicians a banquet

I'm ba-a-a-ack

Well jeeez, it's been a busy, busy time for me. Sorry I haven't been around here much, it really has been a case of too much work and too little time. The final edits have been completed for my new series of novels (ReMade). I finally finished the app I've been working on over the last year. I've moved house....and I'm now staring down the barrel of my 50th birthday party. Here's the deal. My partner has decided that I'm not going to be allowed to skulk away and ignore this birthday

ELLIE QUIN: GIRL REBORN

So, ladies and gents, the fifth volume in the LEGEND OF ELLIE QUIN will be available to download from Amazon in the next week!   I know it's been a helluva long wait for fans of the series, particularly after that cliffhanger at the end of book 4! So...I'm really sorry about that. Things have been pretty hectic what with working on REMADE, the new series to be published by MacMillan next year, some film script work and the APP I'm currently finishing off. (Hopefully available on the Apple app

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!

Big news today. My new teen series ReMADE was announced at the Bologna Book festival!   http://www.thebookseller.com/news/sca...   ReMADE   It's one of the reasons I've been SOOOOO damned quiet on this website for so long. I've been working on it in top secret. Why so secret? Because,truth be told, the world moves quickly these days and *ideas* have to be kept in a dark place where no one can see them until you're ready to unleash them on the world, or...surprise,

THE NEW ELLIE QUIN BOOK!

Well now, I'm nearly halfway through the first draft of the FIFTH Ellie Quin book! For those of you who are TimeRiders fans and don't know very much about this series...how can I describe it?   Well, it's about a girl in the far, far future who thinks she's the most boring person in the universe. She lives on a remote dusty planet in a remote oxygen farm with her family. What Ellie doesn't know is that encoded into her DNA is something that will transform ALL of Human Space. Pretty soon she

I'M NOT DEAD....JUST BEEN BLOODY BUSY!!!

I'm BAAAACKKKK!!!!   Sorry for being off the radar for so long!! It's been a darned hectic Christmas. First of all, I bought a house over the Christmas season (I know...stupid). It was madness getting that sorted with lawyers and estate agents vanishing to spend time with their families. Grrrrr.....idiots!   No. kiddding. Anyway, all sorted now. I'm in...stuff is moved in.   Also, I've been grabbing every waking minute (between moving,eating, sleeping) writing the next ELLIE QUIN book. Which so