Oh! I forgot to mention that the first two books of my new series, Monster Boy, were published on the third of this month by Orchard Book, whith whom I have an awful lot of books published.

Monster Boy is half monster half human and has a way with monsters, so he is the number one agent for the Ministry of Monsters – It’s a lot of fun.

There are eight books in the series. The hardbacks are coming out two a month and the paper backs will come out next year.

It’s been a lot of work over the last year. The artwork is all done on Adobe Flash. I worked out a style with Flash when I wrote Ricky Rocket. Since then I’ve got cleverer at the software, but have made it harder on myself too.

My next two series will be drawn by hand on paper – Hooray! You can drive yourself crazy staring at a screen all day – give me paper.

My next two series? Yes, I’m just starting out on an eight book series called Axel Storm and today I heard that Orchard have agreed to acquire another eight book series set in ancient Greece, so my holiday was a research trip too!

Now I’d better try and find a bit of time to bring my website up to date and get some Monster Boys stuff on there.