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I’m proud to announce that Wind is currently the iTunes Book of the Month, and available for free for a limited time only. Grab your copy while you can!

  People often talk about how young I was when I started out with the “author” thing, but in fact I started out much earlier than they think! Not only was I making my own picture books as a kid, but I took the trouble to come up with imaginary publishers for them. Clearly, I… {read more}

Recently, my father unearthed this picture of me with my agent, signing my first publishing contract back in 2004. I was only 18 at the time, and I remember how excited and happy I was – you can see it easily enough in this picture! 🙂

  When we were editing The Shadow’s Heart, the editor asked me why Kearney “Red” Redguard and Kraego, son of Skandar, were in the book since neither of them did very much. My answer? “They’re there because they’re the protagonists of the next trilogy”. And now I can finally reveal that I have just signed… {read more}

Here is the cover of my new book, Wind, which is coming out on the 1st of May through the Voyager Impulse e-book publishing program. It will be available on all the major platforms, never fear – plus as you can see it has a really awesome cover! Wendland is a land of dragons, and… {read more}

When I was a kid I came up with a term which no doubt has an equivalent somewhere in academia. That term is “selective compassion”. Here’s a theoretical example of it in action. Me: Here’s a picture of me with a rat I just killed. People: Ew, rats are disgusting – I hope she washed… {read more}

Hi everybody. I haven’t died, I promise – these days I’ve bowed to the inevitable and mostly post news, etc. on Facebook. You can find me here. I’ve also been posting more short stories on Wattpad, most of them set in the world of the griffin books. I even recorded one and put it on… {read more}

You just lost everything and everyone you cared about If you haven’t been imprisoned/tortured/maimed… brace yourself You’re going to wind up doing something terrible, either willingly or unwillingly You’ll probably be subjected to mind control at some point You will get PTSD You may also go insane. If you’re lucky it’ll be temporary You will… {read more}