I was back on the schools circuit again today – my first school event of the year! Lately I’ve been doing fewer school appearances – in theory so I can keep more days for writing. But where do those writing days go? MYSTERIOUS THEFT OF DAYS IS HAPPENING. The side-effect of doing fewer school visits [...]
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Read To A Million Kids!
How would you like to hear (and see) me read from Scream Street 9: Terror of the Nightwatchman? All you have to do is register for an exciting new project from Renaissance Learning called Read To A Million Kids and you can do just that. Plus, you have until 30th June to submit any question [...]
Drawing in Dublin
Well, I’ve just got back from my trip to Dublin where I was involved in an evening of Illustration at Easons bookshop. A big thankyou to Dave O’Callaghan for inviting me over and to Siobhan Tierney from Hachette for looking after me during my stay and for making sure I had a regular supply of [...]
David and Niamh Hit Dublin
TBM authors Niamh Sharkey and David Melling part of an Illustration Evening in Easons in Dublin, Ireland.
More great reads…
One of the great things about having given up flying to become a writer is that I now get to meet lots of other writers and they’re a super bunch of people. I recently did an event in London with this guy… Justin Somper and I had met some years before at the London Final [...]
MG Harris Interview
I recently had the pleasure of signing books alongside the beautiful MG Harris, author of the phenomenally exciting Joshua Files series. I’ll be reviewing the latest installment of her series Dark Parallel very soon. I’m a big fan of the books and would recommend them to anyone who likes fast paced action adventure stories. The [...]
Haunted Hotels!
Last month I was let out of the dank, miserable, armpit-scented caves to tour around the country promoting Furnace 5. It was brilliant to be able to breathe air that hadn’t been filtered through Barfdribble Undergunk’s digestive system, and to stretch my legs after so long cowering in the corner of my cell. But on [...]
Doodles from Trinity College
Some doodles from my doodle trip to Early Printed Books in Trinity College, Dublin.
The Award Winning Mr Mumbles
A few months ago I made a comment on the quality of Snurglefluff III’s cooking – a small piece of constructive criticism really, nothing more, but it was enough to get me hung up by my toenails in “The Dirty Room” over Christmas and New Year. A couple of days ago, though, I was cut [...]
KILLER OPENING LINES
Hey All I’m just about to start the Witchfinder 2: Gallows at Twilight World Tour (presently restricted to London, Cambridge, Lincolnshire and the Home Counties, but hopefully taking in the world at some point!). Anyhoo, as part of the WF2:GaTWT I’ve been putting together a new creative writing workshop for schools called HOW TO WRITE [...]
