Signing here, signing there …

Had fun in Guildford Waterstones on Saturday, signing with Sam Enthoven, pictured left. We had such a good time that we thought we might do it again sometime soon … maybe in the summer holidays. More on that soon. Sam is a fine chap who tells a fine tale. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my read through The Black Tattoo. It’s a tale of secret societies, demons, high-flying kung fu, vomiting bats and gruesome battles between fearsome monsters. Indeed, battling monsters seem to be a feature of Sam’s writing, as his new book, Tim: Defender of the Earth appears to be a tribute to the great monster stories that litter our literary history - King Kong, Godzilla etc. Tim is a 12 year old Tyrannosaur with attitude! He’s been created in secret, deep beneath London, as part of an experimental programme. Unfortunately he’s also expensive - so expensive that the British Government decide to scrap the project in favour of something else. Tim (Tyrannosaur Improved Model) has other ideas. Like an idiot I left in a hurry to try to catch the first in the new Dr Who series and I forgot to ask Sam to sign me a copy of Tim - an error I intend to correct very shortly.

My next signing event is on the first Saturday of May in Cheltenham WH Smith store - a frequent haunt for me, it seems. I look forwards to catching up with some regulars there.

I’m currently going through the first edit of Dragon Orb - Shadow. Mercifully, my Editor likes the story and has only suggested superficial changes that are fairly easy to implement. I should be sending the corrected manuscript back by the middle of the week. Hurrah! Longfang next …