Tommy in grave peril (geddit?!)
Happy 2010 to website visitors and Scream Street fans alike! This year, we had a double celebration as my sister got married yesterday! In the picture below you can see (from left to right): my new brother in law Kev, my brother Bryan, my dad, me, and my sister Sue. It was a wonderful day […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I couldn’t quite stay away from work over the holiday period and – despite the festivities – found myself sitting at my desk, cracking on with the second draft of Scream Street 10: Rampage of the Goblins (to be published here in the UK this Halloween, October 2010). I finished last night and emailed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was going to write a post filled with writing tips, but then I found this video – which says just about everything I was planning to cover:
Hello to all my readers on the other side of the world! I hope you’re ready for some fiendish fun – for THREE new Scream Street titles are published in Australia and New Zealand by Walker Books Australia today! Scream Street 5: Skull of the Skeleton, Scream Street 6: Claw of the Werewolf and Scream […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was delighted to receive this news article earlier this afternoon from one of Scream Street‘s top reporters, James Smart. It’s a report on the appearance of Cleo’s mum in Scream Street 3: Heart of the Mummy. James has managed to uncover some disturbing truths about her sudden arrival. You can click on the article […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Those of us held captive at Trapped By Monsters have been here for a year now. Perhaps if I can find a way inside your computer, I may be able to get a message out…
I enjoyed a wonderful visit to St. Peter’s Primary School in Ashton-Under-Lyne yesterday – my first school event of 2010! Thank you to everyone there for being so welcoming and enthusiastic although I suspect they enjoyed the day just as much as I did. Here’s what the assistant head had to say: What a fangtastic […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The future is here! Forget your flying cars and robot secretaries – this week, I’ve been teaching in a school 270 miles away, via computer! Instead of driving from my home in Lancashire to Kent and back to run my creative writing classes, I’ve been linking up with year 8 pupils at Holmesdale Technology College […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Caroline Roche, the brilliant, tech savvy school librarian behind last week’s Skype sessions with Holmesdale Technology College has been blogging about the experience here: http://uulibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/skyping-with-tommy/ You can also see how the link-up looked from the other end (although this picture was taken on a different day to mine, hence the change of t-shirt!)
I’m at the end of a tiring, but brilliantly enjoyable week visiting schools in Preston, Poulton and Lancaster, then dashing down to speak at a Renaissance Learning seminar in Leicester (where I was thrilled to meet the author of the incredible Mokee Joe books, Peter J Murray and his wife, Kath). Thanks to everyone for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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