The Filth Licker on Facebook! Share your akaname and yokai links…

Hooray! Takeshita Demons: The Filth Licker is published today in the UK!! Have you got your copy?   LIKE ME! LIKE ME! Any yokai or monster trivia you want to share? Any cool filth-licker links to pass on? Check out the Filth Licker on Facebook (http://on.fb.me/filthlicker) and add your questions and cool demon facts to [...]

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Interview with children’s book specialist Geraldine Brennan

I’m rejigging my website in the leadup to the release of Takeshita Demons. I’m deleting some bits and adding others, and one of the things I rediscovered was this interview conducted by children’s book specialist Geraldine Brennan shortly after I won the 2009 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award with Takeshita Demons. That was [...]

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How old is a piece of string?

START YOUR CLOCKS! Crunch time for Takeshita Demons is getting closer: just 36 days left! Apparently I have a final printed copy in the post…yee ha! How old is a piece of string? Like any procrastinating author, I like to Google the name of my book in the days leading up to its release. (Did [...]

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I have fabulous news!

I have fabulous news! And I’ve been buzzing all week because of it. Fabulous news #1: FORESTS AND FILTH LICKERS is finished!!! Well, the first draft is with a Very Special Group of Reviewers (one is reading it as I type). So far the feedback has been good and there’s not too many fatal errors [...]

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We bought a house!

YAY! Finally, we have bought a house. Now we just have to sell the apartment. And I’ve been writing, writing, writing.  Forests and Filth Lickers is going WELL WELL WELL! I’m at the point now where I’m daring to actually show people what I’ve written. And by people I mean the Small Group of Trusted [...]

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