It feels like forever since I’ve posted on here.

It’s not that I haven’t wanted to, mind, it’s just that I’ve been saddled with a bit of a hefty workload over the past couple of months. This has meant that I had to forget about everything that didn’t involve writing or promoting my books. I haven’t eaten or slept since late February and, frankly, I am bursting for the toilet.

Since the beginning of March, I have written 176,000 words on eight different books. Two of these were completely my own work for my publisher, HarperCollins. The other six were books I write for different publishers, none of which are published under my own name. I can’t tell you much about any of them at the moment, although it’s safe to say that at least a couple of them were Ben 10 books, which I’ve been writing for a couple of years now.

I can tell you a bit about my own books, though. The first one I had to write was the fifth book in my INVISIBLE FIENDS series. It’s called THE BEAST, and it comes out in March 2012, with the final book in the series being published in August of that year.

I’m always excited about the FIENDS books, but I’m even more excited about my new book, which comes out in February 2012. I just finished writing it last week, but it was mentioned in a HarperCollins promotional catalogue a month or so before that. The only problem was, that I hadn’t really told them much about the story at that point, so they had to piece the blurb below together based on little things I had mentioned in passing. As such, it’s not exactly an accurate reflection of the story, but it does at least give a nod in the plot’s direction.

“Brilliant new novel” eh? “From a major talent” you say? Oh, those guys…

You can read a very short extract from THE 13TH HORSEMAN on this page of my own website. It’s nothing like my INVISIBLE FIENDS series, so it’ll be interesting to hear what people think when it comes out.

So, that’s why I’ve been away, in a nutshell. It’s great to be so busy, but it’s also going to be nice to relax for a while before getting stuck into my next book – a follow-up to HORSEMAN – in a couple of weeks.

Oh, one thing I did manage to get done was to read PLAGUE, the latest book in Michael Grant’s GONE series. I’ll post a review of it here shortly.

Aaaah, it’s good to be back.

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