Tie-in Tuesday: Public Lending Right loans - 2013/2014

I'm now in my eighth year of doing this, so here's the list of my top ten most library-loaned books for July 2013 - June 2014 (with last year's placings in brackets):

1. (3) The Night Before Twistmas (Sep 12)
2. (1) Monstrous Missions (Feb 12)
3. (7) Zack Binspin (Mar 13)
4. (2) The Horror of Howling Hill (Mar 08)
5. (-) The Great Moshling Egg (Dec 13)
6. (5) Moshi Music Stars (Jan 13)
7. (4) Crisis on Coruscant (Jan 10)
8. (6) Stormslayer (Sep 09)
9. (-) Moshi Monsters: Moshipedia (Nov 13)
10. (9) Night of the Necromancer (Apr 10)

This last year has been my most successful year Public Lending Rights-wise. Thank the Lord for tie-in titles, that's what I say. (Only one of my tie-in books didn't appear in my top ten this year, and that was the 2010 Official Doctor Who Annual which I ended up writing most of.)

My Fighting Fantasy titles continue to prove popular, even though some of them were written years ago. Once again, Stormslayer is my most borrowed FF gamebook. (There are nine titles on the following list, because several of the books appear in more than one edition.)

1. (1) Stormslayer (Sep 09)
2. (2) Night of the Necromancer (Apr 10)
3. (6) Bloodbones (Sep 06)
4. (4) Curse of the Mummy (Oct 95)
5. (3) Howl of the Werewolf (Sep 07)
6. (5) Spellbreaker (Jun 93)
7. (6) Bloodbones (Sep 06)
8. (4) Curse of the Mummy (Oct 95)
9. (3) Howl of the Werewolf (Sep 07)

My Pax Britannia books are also good loaners, with the newest title Time's Arrow moving into pole position this year.

1. (2) Time's Arrow (Nov 12)
2. (1) Human Nature (Dec 08)
3. (7) Blood Royal (Jun 10)
4. (4) Leviathan Rising (Mar 08)
5. (8) Unnatural History (Feb 07)
6. (5) Anno Frankenstein (May 11)
7. (3) Evolution Expects (May 09)
8. (9) The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus (Nov 10)
9. (6) Dark Side (Oct 10)

Tie-in Tuesday: 'Twas the Night Before Twistmas

‘Twas the night before Twistmas, and throughout Monstro City

Not a Moshling was stirring, not a Birdie or Beastie...

Christmas 2013 really seems to be the season of Twistmas. The Night Before Twistmas is still proving very popular, as is my novelisation of the Moshi Monsters Movie, The Great Moshling Egg, and the Moshipedia (which was ranked at #320 in Books on Amazon at the weekend).

And next Christmas looks like it might be the season of Twistmas too, as I have another Twistmas-themed book already scheduled for release. ;-)

Tie-in Tuesday: The Night Before Twistmas

I've never received so many reviews for one book (37 at the time of writing) and 24 of them 5 star reviews!

Don't forget, two more of my Moshi Monster titles are available for sale now - Moshi Monsters: Music Stars and Moshi Monsters C.L.O.N.C Sticker Activity book.

Tie-in Tuesday: Moshi Monsters - The Night Before Twistmas

My Moshi Monsters book The Night Before Twistmas has been getting some love on Amazon* (and elsewhere) of late**. Here's what people have been saying about it:

"Funny and well written..."

"A funny spin on a classic..."

"I would say any Moshi fan will love and enjoy reading it."

"All monsters getting ready for Twistmas read it!"

If you've not done your Christmas shopping yet, remember to add The Night Before Twistmas to your Christmas list.



* The highest ranking I've seen for the book thus far is '207 in Books' and '#66 in Children's Books' which I think is quite high.

** In some cases from parents who have clearing already started, or maybe even completed, their Christmas shopping!

Tie-in Tuesday: The Night Before Twistmas

If you've yet to purchase The Night Before Twistmas for the Moshi Monsters fan in your life, have you considered getting it on the iPad? If that sounds like your sort of thing, follow this link.

Tie-in Tuesday: Well whaddya know?

My daughter came home from school today with the Puffin Book Club magazine. And what did my wife find on page 10?

Tie-in Tuesday: Moshi Monsters

Several of the Moshi Monsters books I've written are now up on Amazon and even have covers.

So check out the C.L.O.N.C. Sticker Activity Book, Moshi Music Stars and The Night Before Twistmas (which goes on sale in only a few days time)!

  

Moshi Monsters: The Night Before Twistmas

It's here! My first Moshi Monsters publication and (as my wife put it) my first Ladybird book!

You can pick up your copy of The Night Before Twistmas here.

Tie-in Tuesday: Moshi Monsters - The Night Before Twistmas

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee isn't even over yet and summer might just about be on its way, so what better time can there be to talk about Christmas?

Some of you have clocked this already, but over the last six months, amongst my other projects, I've been writing Moshi Monsters books. For those of you not in the know (in other words you probably don't have small children) Moshi Monsters are kind of a cross between Tamagotchi and Club Penguin. Clear now? Good.

Anyway, the first of the titles I've been working on to see print is an adaptation of Clement Clarke Moore's A Visit From St Nicholas. You know the one, it starts with the line "'Twas the night before Christmas."

Well my Moshi Monster take on this is out this September and, funnily enough, you can pre-order it here.

And to get you in that Moshi Twistmas mood, you can download the Moshi Twistmas song here.