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Interview in Paris with Bayard Éditions Jeunesse

Video from the live facebook session

April blog

At the moment, I am just completing the third book in the Brother Wulf Series. The second one is out […]

February Blog

BLOG: February 2021 During my attempts to get published I was rejected about 96 times. Since the publication of ‘The […]

Videos

Seventh Son film trailer

November blog

Recently, one thing that has occupied my time has been making short films for use in schools. One of them […]

Favourite character answers

Here are all the responses to the favourite character competition. I really enjoyed reading them and as I said found […]

Q & A in print

The Lamia Witch

The Lamia Witch 9/3/2019 Brenda Gountis sent me this poem. Inspired by “The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane” (Spooks […]

10 questions with Joseph Delaney

Nicola from BBC Radio Lancashire ( she has interviewed me a couple of times ) has launched a book club […]

July Blog Writing ‘Wulf Two’

I have just finished another draft of ‘Wulf Two’ and it has gone off to my editor. Once again, it […]

If you want to be a writer, keep a notebook. You need to jot down every idea for a story that comes into your head. Don’t think to censor your ideas either! The idea is new and you are too close to it to judge its value. Ten years later it may strike you in a totally different way. I estimate that out of every thirty ideas I jotted down into my notebooks, twenty-nine proved to be worthless. The thirtieth had the potential to be developed into a novel or short story. The bad news was that quite often I found out that somebody had written something similar already!