Scream Street 2: Blood of the Witch gets a great review at the TV Hits website:

You can read the review by clicking here: http://www.tvhits.co.uk/book_reviews.php
Tommy
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I had a great day at Boldon Primary School today - running creative writing workshops, causing chaos with my Scream Street activities and spending the entire afternoon doing drama with pupils from years 4, 5 and 6.
From what I understand, the school will shortly find out whether it is to remain open or have to [...]

For all Scream Street fans in the UK, there’s a chance to win a set of SS books in the latest edition of Jetix magazine - plus you can read the latest, exclusive Scream Street short story, Clear And Present Danger…

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That’s ‘Liver’ rhyming with ‘Fiver’ in the title, and not the rubbery internal organ…
I’ve spent a fantastic couple of days in Liverpool at the Shipping Lines Literary Festival, part of the city’s celebration as European Capital of Culture, 2008.  I got to run some fang-tastic creative writing workshops at the refurbished Bluecoat centre, cause chaos [...]

Yes, this is my 200th post on this blog (I started last November, so that’s not bad work for a year!)
To celebrate, I’m proud to reveal the covers for the forthcoming Scream Street books:
Scream Street 5: Skull of the Skeleton…

and Scream Street 6: Claw of the Werewolf…

They’ll be published on 4th May 2009, and are [...]

Happy Halloween!  Today was just the right day to officially launch the Scream Street series with a range of spooky activities at Seven Stories, the centre for children’s books in Newcastle.
I ran a creepy creative writing workshop, read from the SS books, played some werewolf vs vampire activities and, of course, signed copies of the [...]

While waiting for a train at King’s Cross station in London last night, I popped into WHSmith and spotted Scream Street 1: Fang of the Vampire…

…at number 18 in the children’s book chart!
I smiled all the way home.
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Thanks to everyone at St John Ambulance for a great day at the Petrifying Party today!  The event took place at St John’s church in London, where we played some gruesome games in the garden…

I read spooky stories in the creepy crypt…

And signed Scream Street books for my revolting readers!  (This is Awful Alex having [...]

Dah-dah-dah-da-da-dah, dah-dah-da-dah!
The sentence above is supposed to be the opening line of At The Sign of the Swingin’ Cymbals buy Brian Fahey (you can hear what it was supposed to sound like here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5BpQ_1RnolU)  The tune was oft used by Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman in his Radio 1 Top 40 show - and that’s a very [...]

A great day today, speaking at the Gateshead Raising Achievement event at Seven Stories.  The theme of my talk was how I inspire children - and especially boys - to read.  So, I took along my Scream Street relics, read a section from SS2: Blood of the Witch, ran a mini-workshop and even performed a [...]