Spring is here... well, nearly...

I thought I'd show you a couple of plants that make a change from daffodils and tulips. They are both insectivorous plants - they grow in poor soil and get most of their nutrition from insects. The monster on the left is the biggest pitcher plant in the world, and I used it as one of the jinx box's disguises in Jinx on the Divide. The plant below is the biggest flower in the world, and it smells even worse than a sinistrom. It's called Rafflesia. I took both of these photographs when I was in Borneo in 2004.

Unauthorised Links

Two messages were posted on my previous entry here, both of which had links pasted in. As I do not know either of the authors of these, I have deleted them without opening them in case they were carrying viruses. If you want a link from my site, please e-mail me personally through the contact page on the main website, explaining your reasons.

Author visits

I'm sometimes asked if I do author visits to schools, book groups, festivals and library events, and the answer is - yes. I live in the south-east of England, and I'm willing to travel anywhere in that region. But I also have friends I like to visit in different parts of the country, and so other areas are possible too. For details of what I do, visit the Scattered Authors Website.

http://www.scatteredauthors.org/index.htm

My latest book

Fury, my new book, will be published by Barrington Stoke on 22nd March. It's about a girl who lets the Furies of Ancient Greece escape into our world through a crack in an old pot... There's a link to it on Amazon. co.uk below. This is a stand-alone book, rather than the beginning of a series.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fury-Elizabeth-Kay/dp/1842995693/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195830746&sr=1-31

Best wishes for the new year

I hope 2008 is a good year for you all - I have a new book coming out in March, called Fury. It's published by Barrington Stoke, and I'll post more details closer to the time.

New writing classes I'm teaching this term - at the Leatherhead Institute, Surrey, starting at 7.30pm on 14th January - telephone 01634 298600, and at The Malden Centre, Surrey, starting at 1.00pm on 17th January, telephone 020 8336 7770.

Happy Christmas Everyone!

I would like to wish all my readers the season's greetings.

Spam, spam, spam...

Due to platefuls of spam lately, it's possible that e-mails you have sent me have been identified as Junk by my computer. In the absence of a good fire-breather mail system, please try again, and give your e-mail a heading that makes it clear you know something about one of the books. Anything that looks as though you're trying to sell me something will be dumped unread...