The Books That Made Me Write – Part 12
How Whizzer and Chips Fed My Love of Storytelling Through Silliness, Slapstick and Pure Chaos Before the novels, before the…
April 3, 2026
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Category: Book Writing
Space Ranger Fred and the Great Galactic Bake Off Is Out Now in Hardback
And School Visits Are Open for 2026 I’m very pleased to be able to share two bits of news that…
December 18, 2025
The Books That Made Me Write – Part 11
The Three Investigators: My First American Adventure I was about twelve or thirteen years old when I stumbled into the…
December 9, 2025
The Erosion of Deep Literacy: Children’s Reading Habits, Cognitive Shifts, and the Future of Thought in the Algorithmic Age
In today’s world children have more access to stories and information than at any point in history, yet their ability…
December 9, 2025
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The Books That Made Me Write – Part 10 – Watership Down
How Watership Down Taught Me That Storytelling Isn’t Just About Rabbits Some books settle in the imagination and never leave.…
November 21, 2025
From ERP to Space-Ships: How My Marketing Past Shapes My Children’s Fiction
If you told my younger self, the one standing in a boardroom explaining ERP and CRM systems to a group…
November 16, 2025
The Books That Made Me Write – Part 8
How Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow Introduced Me to the Grit, Glory and Comradeship of Historical Fiction There are…
November 4, 2025
Why Publishing a Book with a Typo Isn’t the End of the World
When you pour your heart, time, and soul into a book, you want it to be perfect. Every word chosen…
November 2, 2025
The Books That Made Me Write – Part 7
How David Eddings Taught Me That Grown-Up Fantasy Could Still Feel Like Home It’s strange how certain books find their…
October 22, 2025
Books That Made Me Write – Part 6
The Books That Made Me Write – Part 6 How The Big Joke Game by Scott Corbett Taught Me That…
September 30, 2025
