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‘Susan Shocks’ my new book for children. Get it now for £2.30 ($3)

Seven brand new stories for children. Strange things are happening in the seaside town in which Susan lives. The seagulls have grown tired of begging for food from humans and have taken control of the promenade. Most of the grown-ups have run away screaming in terror. Eight-year-old Susan is not running away. She enlists the help of mysterious odd job man Mister Sixty in order to save the town…

See cover of new book

My new book is due out soon and you can get a preview of the front cover by going to jonkenna.com   (Don’t forget to subscribe when you get there!)

Orange is the New Blue

To see the orange alternative to the new blue cover for Ghost Road go to  jonkenna.com   I was really pleased with the new ‘blue’ cover particularly the ‘you are here… forever’ tag line and the road sign title but now I’m looking at this orange alternative and I’m torn! It has no tag line or logo or anything but I like the simpler, almost retro style. I don’t know why it matters so much because…

Will you let him in?

“He comes to my room at night…” In 2014 ‘Mr. Mad’ was published. Imagine a box. Imagine putting all the darker aspects of yourself, all the things you would rather no-one knew about you, into that box and imagine closing the lid. Feel better? Doctor Georgina Barnes is a respected psychiatric consultant on a busy hospital ward. She knows exactly how to convince people that she is confident,…

‘I initially wrote these as separate stories for children age 8-13 but found that, even though most of the stories can be read independently, there was a definite plot progression which meant that they were best read in a particular order. So it may be that the stories end up being called chapters or maybe I’ll just have a list of titles. Anyway, here’s the stories/chapters/titles in the correct…

Doing your own illustrations; is it as dangerous as performing your own brain surgery?

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New Cat is No Scruff

We have someone new in the house. Sheila the cat  is now a permanent resident. When she originally came to us she was called Scruff but you’ve never seen a cat who is less of a scruff; she’s actually smooth and silky. So she’s now called Sheila. When I was a kid I had a dog so I’m not experienced with cats. I love animals but I’d never choose to have a pet (I was outvoted in this case). Dogs and…

Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’; The Return

I shot this video in the town where I live a few weeks ago.  The birds are back… and this time it’s personal.

I took these shots in North Wales last week. I like how the water looks like snow.

Seagulls at New Brighton, Liverpool

“You shouldn’t have said that, Geoff.” I took these photographs recently at New Brighton, Liverpool, England.

For years, everyone’s been saying how great Breaking Bad is. I never fancied it. Drugs dealers, hit men, terminal illness…? Narr not for me. Then someone lent me the first season on dvd. Like everyone else, almost instantly, I was a hopeless addict. And it’s all Vince Gilligan’s fault. Actually it’s not. Brilliant though the initial idea of the ultra-square teacher and his former pupil cooking…

Inkitt’s latest Horror writing contest “End Game” is now open for submissions! Inkitt is a free writing platform that aims to help writers achieve their fullest potential. On July 13th the site launched a new Horror writing contest, Endgame. Submit your scariest and most menacing original horror stories! Petrify readers with tales that will trap and drown them in your world of helpless terror,…