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Posted by Anonymous on February 28, 2020

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The Phoenix Code

There's a reason why the noticeboard in my office has been looked like this for most of last year! Extra points if you know who the man in the black and white photo might be . . . And there's a reason why I went on holiday to Egypt last year (well, apart from the fact it's an amazing country and somewhere I've always wanted to go). On the Nile with my trusty co-conspirator Yes, 2013 was all about the first book of the my new series, Secrets of the Tomb s. It's called The Phoenix Code and it is set in The Valley of the Kings (that's where King Tutankhamun is buried, as well as numerous other New Kingdom pharaohs). The Phoenix Code won't be out until Summer 2014, but here is a sneak preview of the cover. Just look at that cool fiery phoenix! And those two kids running for their lives as if about to burst right out of the cover at you are Cleo McNeil and Ryan Flint, our intrepid main characters. If you liked the mystery and

Stories and Salamanders

Thank you to everyone at Willingham Primary School for making me so welcome at your school when I came to visit last week. I had a great day working with all three Y3/4 classes as well as with a lovely mixed-age group in the morning - where we got to work spinning tales of adventure and magic using my newly created Story Factory - modeled here by Scruffy. Scruffy comes along on all my school visits to dispense cuddles and perform as Drift's stunt double. Well done, everyone, for your brilliant imagination and enthusiasm. And a huge thank you to Willingham Parish Council whose generous donation to the library funded the visit, and to Cambridgeshire Libraries who organised the event - complete with a display of my books at Willingham Library - and especially to top librarian, Wendy Law, for making sure that everything ran smoothly on the day. The Mystery of the Black Salamander was the basis of the Y3/4 workshop - might just explain why I have a salamander on a stick in my po

A Tale of Over-Excitement and Clumsiness

I may have been a little over-excited last week. First I sent off the first draft of the second book in the Secrets of the Tombs series. Second, I got to go to Bristol for an author evening organised by the lovely people at Orion Children's Books. I was one of five authors there to tell the audience of wonderful booksellers a little bit about our new books coming out soon. The other authors were Marcus Sedgewick, Alan Gibbons, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald and Steve Backshall. As you can imagine, I was a tiny bit star-truck to be in such company. The goodie bag bursting with books . . .

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