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I apologise for the length of this post, but it seems like a useful resource for children’s writers like myself. This is my experience of using the internet for marketing children’s books. *This piece is aimed at writers of younger children’s books (for 4-12 yr olds), rather than YA titles. A lot of adult internet [...]

This year’s festival is partnering with a few schools, with the intention of creating a book of monsters. Each child will make up their own monster, and a select few will be published in the book. BUT!! We need lots of colour monsters to fill the cover. And as that will need to be made [...]

There’s a rich tradition of children’s stories set in and about our capital city, and it’s no wonder really, as London has it all. In Operation Robot Storm I’ve shocked the city by casting it into a new ice age, which meant I got to draw all the famous monuments covered in ice. Frankly, the [...]

Yesterday was the official publication day of Operation Robot Storm, and to celebrate, I spent most of it colouring in some of the comic sections. I rarely colour in work, as most of it is line drawing, so it was excellent fun. It also reminded me of just how many other questions are raised when [...]

We’re nearing the launch date for part two of Garen Ewing’s brilliant Rainbow Orchid series, and I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview last week. It looks amazing, as I knew it would. And most wonderful of all, we realised we’d both drawn almost exactly the same maps describing our characters journey. Like [...]

It doesn’t get much better than this.

So then, it’s just a few weeks now until the yetis hit the shelves. As many of you will know, up until now I’ve only really had one story published - the Mousehunter trilogy. Of course, it’s three books, but that’s really only one story and one bunch of characters. It’s the strangest feeling knowing I [...]

It’s taken a lot of work, and I still want to tweak it, but here’s the trailer to the first Mythical 9th Division book. The one with yetis in.