One of the joys of Twitter, incidentally, is that it allows readers to contact me directly and these 140-character exchanges are as valuable to me as what the professional critics have to say. An original thriller, Magpie Murders was published last year and got some of the best reviews I've had. This began with two Sherlock Holmes continuation novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty, followed by my entry into the world of James Bond with Trigger Mortis. I have plenty of other children's books out there - I was delighted to discover my Power of Five series (Raven's Gate, Evil Star etc) on sale in a tiny bookshop in Elounda, Crete only a few days ago.īut as I grew older (and my original audience entered their twenties) I felt a need to move into adult writing. There were eleven more books in the series - the latest, Never Say Die, was published in 2017 - and they are now being developed for TV. The game changer for me was Stormbreaker, the first Alex Rider adventure, published in 2000. Perhaps it helped that I wasn't much good at anything else.Ĭut forward to the present and now I have over forty-five published novels to my name. I knew without any doubt that I would be an author. Every time I write a new book, I have the same sense of urgency that I had then. In fact I wrote my first book when I was ten, stuck in a miserable, north London boarding school where reading and telling stories were my only lifeline. It just shows how quickly times have moved. It's strange to think that when I wrote my first book, there was no Amazon - in fact there was no internet, no computers.
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