Britain has a strange relationship with America. It is like that of a man who married a woman, and then the woman divorced him way back in 1776, and now said woman – let’s call her Liberty – has gone on to better things. She has got rich, glamorous and […]
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SOME FUCKING WRITING TIPS
This is the first blog I’ve written since writing blogs for the respectable charity Booktrust. Booktrust gave me no rules for writing blogs, except that they said I couldn’t swear. So after six months of non-swearing I have been bursting to fucking swear. I really fucking have. I just need […]
Book club Skype Tour
Hello! I like book clubs. Are you in a book club? If you are and fancy reading The Humans then you may want to know I am doing a book club tour over June and July. All you need to do is to tell me who you are and we’ll […]
Some thoughts on THE HUMANS
My new novel, The Humans, is published this week. I thought I would tell you some things about it: This is the book I am most proud of. It was the first idea I ever had, but it took me eight books to get to this point. This story needed […]
Ten Writing Rules to Break
I hate rules. This gets me into trouble sometimes. When I was 16 it got me arrested. (I stole a Crunchie bar and some wet-look hair gel from Boots the chemist. Because my plan was to give the Crunchie bar to my best friend Jonathan I thought this made me […]