My second novel – Do Not Feed The Troll! – is a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards. I’m especially proud of this because, unlike others, these awards are judged by the target audience

The gallery for Do not feed the Troll! is now available. Which means you can browse and download all the images used in the book. If you re-use them or pass them around (you’re allowed to) make sure you do so under the CC:By-SA licence they are covered under. If you have any drawings you […]

I am sitting on a campsite as I write this. We’ve been here for four days and it has rained a large proportion of that time. Welcome to the glorious British summertime. The tent has held up pretty well and we’ve been warm at night. Never the less tempers have frayed as the weather has […]

As you will probably know my second book (and the second in the Roboteers series): Do not feed the Troll! was published on 4th August 2014. A second book is always a little bit like the eponymous second album. You spend so long on the first, meticulously pour over the details and then launch it. […]

So Do not feed the Troll! is now available and can be purchased as both paperback and kindle on Amazon as well as a free eBook to download in various formats under Creative Commons. Yes that’s the full book and yes it’s free. If you want to know why I do this, have a look […]

It is with great pleasure and some relief that I am finally able to say Do not feed the Troll! is to be available in the next few days. I have sent it to the publishers and released it for publishing. I am now waiting for it appear on Amazon and other bookstores. In the […]

At the end of May I promised to release my next book Do not feed the troll by the end of June. The sharp eyed among you will have noticed it is now closer to the end of July and there is still no book release. The main reason for this is that my illustrators […]

Announcing a brand new children’s book series under Creative Commons – the Roboteers! Readers of my first book, Sugar the Robot and the race to save the Earth, will know that the Roboteers is the club that Tim and Priya make up to share their interest in robots and robotics. Now the Roboteers are coming […]

This is just a quick progress update on where we are with my next book “Do not feed the troll” – with a special announcement to boot! About the story In case you’re not aware, this new novel is about 10 year old Martin and his family who move house and find a creature, who […]

I thought it might be useful to post an update on where I am with my next book – Do Not Feed The Troll. The text has mostly been written and I am currently editing it. Sometimes this will involve rewriting a paragraph and sometimes it’s just correcting grammar and spelling mistakes. At the same […]