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Last month in my newsletter , I broke the news of my exciting special offer for new (and many existing)Ìý supporters - the chance to receive one unique paper proof page from the edit cycle of my novel The Last Days Of Jack Sparks - complete with my original red-pen edits!

Each of these pages is a one-of-a-kind item and will be a really cool thing to fold in half and tuck inside your copy of the novel.

This week, as you can see from the above pic, the window of oppor...

If you livestream on YouTube, or aspire to do so, I thought you might also want to know about Streamyard, the brilliant cloud app that I've been using for my YouTube livestreams. I am loving it!

You can pin live chats onscreen, bring in guests, share your screen, among the many features available - and the free version works perfectly well, with most features available right from the moment you install it. The only real trade-off i...

If you livestream on YouTube, or aspire to do so, I thought you might also want to know about Streamyard, the brilliant cloud app that I've been using for my YouTube livestreams. I am loving it!

You can pin live chats onscreen, bring in guests, share your screen, among the many features available - and the free version works perfectly well, with most features available right from the moment you install it. The only real trade-off i...

Happy Halloween! I've just unveiled my most ambitious YouTube video yet.

​This 24-minute video-diary documentary sets out to show you:
​How it feels during the launch week of your novelMethods an author can use to promote their novel, without yelling "Buy my book!" all the timeWhat it's like to be a guest at the MCM Comic Con
Take a look, hit Like if you like it, and please share to any aspiring authors you know!

Hello! Here are some things I've learned about how the YouTube algorithm works, during my first year as a creator there.

Perhaps the most important thing to remember is that YouTube is the second biggest search engine in the world. Creators should approach it accordingly.

The more niche a video, the better the algorithm likes it, so it can show your videos to people likely to be interested. YouTube will like you more if each video is about one thing and one thing only, because...

So we're a mere two weeks away from the end of the year.

The end of the decade, actually.

And this whole decade thing is making people judge themselves even more harshly than they normally might. How much have they really achieved over the course of 12 months? Did they manage to carry out even 10% of their plans? God, maybe they're nothing more than USELESS, LAZY CHARLATANS.

I'm as prone to this kind of thinking as anyone else. And so I'd like to make you feel better, the same way...

Where is my mind?
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See, I don’t know about you, but I feel like I used to be able to focus on one thing for hours on end, without my thoughts snaking off to other stuff.

Okay, maybe not hours on end, but at least for ten goddamn minutes.

One preoccupation shared by my novels Ghoster and The Last Days Of Jack Sparks is this: what has the internet done to our brains? I love the online world and yet I also fear its power. I fear its ability to warp, reshape or...

Like so many potentially intimidating things in life, judgement is inevitable. We cast our own nano-second judgements on other people, all day, every day, regardless of whether we’re on Tinder, reading Twitter (oh dear God, the Twitter court room, where people are either Good or Evil) or walking down the street. For better or for worse, it’s what we humans do. Meerkats almost certainly don’t mentally rate the attractiveness or intelligence of other meerkats out of 10 on first si...

Sylvester McCoy fans rejoice, at today's news that Season 26 - the final series of classic Doctor Who - will be the next to join the BBC's deluxe Blu-ray series Doctor Who: The Collection, just in time for Christmas on December 23.

Season 26 features the stories Battlefield, Ghost Light, The Curse Of Fenric and Survival.

This seven-disc box set will feature hours of special features previously released on DVD, plus of course lots of new content, as we've come to expect from Doctor Who: The Coll...

Despite being a supporting character in my novelÌýThe Last Days Of Jack Sparks, Sherilyn Chastain seems to have a struck a chord with readers. She certainly did with me, and I enjoyed writing her very much.This will be a spoiler-free piece, by the way, in case you’ve â€� gasp â€� yet to read the novel.

An Australian-French combat magician with a foul mouth and a possible sex addiction, Sherilyn was created to serve the story in three ways:

1) I needed someone to question Jack’s dogged...