In the interests of self-promotion and in the interests of promoting awareness of what is basically just a good idea, I'd like to tell everyone about authonomy. It's a platform/online community for authors to air and share their works, developed by Harper Collins, allowing authors to upload all or part of a given book and any registered members to read and review them, offering helpful comments and criticisms and/or recommending them to friends. And as an added bonus, Harper Collins will actually consider the top five reads at the end of each month. So naturally it serves me to announce that I've posted a third of one of my novels on the site, but more than that, as I mentioned, I just happen to think it's a neat idea. And I recommend my author friends to go upload some work of theirs and give it a whirl, and recommend my reader friends to go check it out and see what's on offer. And if anybody happens to read my modest sample of sci-fi comedy, (the link to which should work once you've registered at the site, but if not search for the works of one 4dprefect) well, so much the better! Hopefully, I'll be uploading more of my work there as time goes on. Watch this space - and, er, that one as well.

Also, for those who enjoyed Fright Night: The Shrieking Stones (published by Puffin and written by yours truly under the unassuming pen name of Steve Rogers), the second book in the series, Fright Night: The Howling Castle, is now available. Well worth a read if you have kids and, some would say, even if you haven’t.

Further news as and when there’s, er, further news.

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