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I can’t believe it’s 2013 already! How time flies!

Clichés aside, though, 2012 was definitely a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it one. I hardly feel like I’ve stopped for breath. It has been an amazing year, though, with so many exciting things, and I feel very lucky and very privileged to have experienced all the things I have done. Thanks to everyone who made 2012 so awesome!! I hope you guys all had a great one too.

And what does 2013 have in store? I’m hoping it will be another exciting one. The Fury will rage on both sides of the Atlantic, Furnace is reissued in the UK with brand new covers, I’ve got a US tour in the summer and maybe a trip to Brazil later in the year, our feature film Stagnant will – hopefully – get in front of the cameras, and there’s some more film news too that is all hush hush at the moment, but still massively exciting. Oh, and a new horror action series, but it may be 2014 before this one hits the shelves. So all in all it really will be a Happy New Fear!!

Oh, and there’s Far Cry 3 to play as well…

There are also my New Year’s resolutions, which traditionally have to be broken at some point in January. I make and break the same ones every year, so this year I’m going to try something different. My first resolution is NOT to get fit. And my second is NOT to become a squillionaire. So hopefully I’ll break these resolutions too.

Have you guys got any cool plans or resolutions for the year? Good luck with whatever they are. I hope you all have an amazing 2013 and get everything that you could ever possibly want!

January 1st. It’s just another day, of course, but I do think there’s something special about it. I like starting over, starting fresh. I like the feeling of optimism and excitement that the new year brings. It’s like an extra Christmas, as there are 365 beautiful shiny new days in front of you. Enjoy them, explore them, have fun with them. They’re your days.

Happy New Year everyone!!

Happy 2011 everybody! I hope it’s a fantastic year for all of you, and that you get everything you could ever desire!

I was planning to blog a roundup of 2010, but the year just went so bloody quickly that I never got the chance. Suffice to say it was an excellent year with some great writing, a new book, wonderful times with friends and family and the beginnings of some very exciting new projects. But out with the old and in with the new, as they say, and my sights are now firmly on the year ahead!

So what are my plans for 2011? Well, one thing that didn’t go so well last year was my attempt to write eight books… I wrote two. And a half. Yes, it was a little ambitious and maybe I shouldn’t have been quite so tipsy when I announced it. So this year I’m not going to rush to try and finish a certain number of books. Instead I’m going to divide the year up into projects. Twelve of them.

I’m not sure what they all are yet, but I’ve already begun work on a few. The first is my new YA horror novel, which is so new that it doesn’t even have a title yet. The second is probably the screenplay I’m working on for The Inventors. An Inventors film would be SO AMAZING and because there hasn’t been much interest I thought I’d just have a go at it myself. There’s also a short horror film I’d like to make, and of course the feature film Stagnant, which will hopefully finally begin shooting this year. There are a couple of much smaller projects that I’d like to work on as well, which I’ll tell you about if they ever happen! In all, these twelve projects will probably involve more work than the whole eight-books-one-year debacle, but planning it this way makes it seem like less hard work.

Another thing I’ll be doing more of this year is blogging! I’ve got a US blog tour starting on the 5th January and lasting all month, and I’ll be sure to link to all my posts from here. It’s going to be ace!

Anyway, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break, and here’s to a brilliant 2011!