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My books
are aimed at the 9 to 16 age group but I have found
I am read by millions of people in the 30 to 60 age
group. They are also a good old fashioned yarns of
high adventure and thrills that have been said are
like RL Stevenson meets Tolkien - the Times said
they were 'Hotter than Potter...'
How I got
published was a miracle in itself, being a forty
year old Vicar into cricket and jazz music I decided
one day to write a book and eight months later sold
my precious 1200cc motorcycle to do it and self
published Shadowmancer. It became a sell out success
and I was snapped up by Faber and then by Penguin
Putnam in the USA with six figure deals and had to
fight off Roman Polanski who wanted the film rights
- finally selling them to Universal Pictures - both
books will be made into movies within the next 24
months.
I have
recently appeared on most of the major American TV
and Radio shows as well as having features in all of
the broadsheets such as the LA and New York Times,
The Guardian, and Sunday Times etc as well as Johnny
Walker and Ned Sherrin in early 2004. I also
occasionally write for the Times and Telegraph and
review books for the Guardian.
So that is
the story so far. My new book Tersias was released
in September by Faber and BBC Audio, it is about a
blind boy who can see into the future. Shadowmancer
is also released as a Manga comic worldwide in the
same month - the first author to be immortalised as
a comic book figure - it even looks like me!
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