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Tallying the Books 3: The Pippin trilogy

I’m a fantasy writer — of course if I write picture books, they’re going to form a trilogy! Not really. But that’s how it turned out. I wrote the three ‘Pippin and Mabel’ books inspired by my dog Pippin, who … Continue reading

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The Birth of the Caravan Road: Ramblings on the Caravan Road 1

Hwaet! I’m starting a series of eight or so blog posts (which may appear somewhat erratically). This here is the first of them. Each is going to take a question of the sort that people seem to want to ask … Continue reading

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Mr Wicked’s Leap Day Adventure

So, Leap Day … I’m all for leaping, especially if the humans let me run free, free, free … which they don’t very often because I’m an EvilWickedHusky and also full of German Shepherd brains, which means I think about … Continue reading

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A couple of brief and entertaining interviews

I’ve done a couple of short interviews recently for Marshal Zeringue’s blogs. For the first, I applied the ‘page 69’ test to The Leopard. You can see what I discovered, approaching page 69 as a reader who hadn’t read the … Continue reading

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The Adventures of Mister Wicked: The mysterious affair of the dog who woofed in the night

’Twas the night after Boxing Day, and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Or so the humans, blissfully asleep, would have thought, if they had been awake to think. Someone, however, could not … Continue reading

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