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Have you ever said to yourself, “Man, I’d really love to buy the first three books of the Spy School series, but there’s no cool box to hold them all?”
Well, your prayers have been answered!  As of today, you can get beautiful brand-new copies of Spy School, Spy Camp and Evil Spy School in an [...]

So far, Barnes & Noble has done exclusive editions of three of my books: Evil Spy School, Spaced Out and Big Game.  If you’ve been lucky enough to get one of these, you’ve seen that they have lots of great stuff, like secret artwork on the inside of the cover, extra maps and lots of [...]

Hey folks –
A lot of you may have noticed that there haven’t been any new t-shirts available on this site for, oh… five years or so.  That’s because I never had the time to design any more.
(I suppose it’s possible that you never realized that there were t-shirts available on this site at all.  Well, [...]

Hey readers –
Just like last year, I’m going to take a break fro social media so I can hit some book deadlines and spend a little more time with my kids now that they’re not in school.
So, I won’t be responding to questions on my blog… or emails.. or Twitter… or Facebook for a while. [...]

Every summer, Barnes & Noble has a great reading program for kids — and this year’s was just announced.  In honor of the 2016 Olympics (I think), this summer’s event will be a reading triathlon.
Only, while a real triathlon involves swimming, cycling and running, this triathlon basically just involves reading books.  And then taking two [...]

HEADS UP: There is some cool new info about FunJungle 4 — including the name of the book — in the blog post below.
A few weeks ago, I got to meet some of the great unsung heroes on earth: the people who deal with wildlife crimes for the World Wildlife Fund.
I know what you’re thinking. [...]

A lot of you have asked me if there’s any way I can write you into a book, and I always have to give you the same answer: No.
Because if I wrote everyone into my books who asked me to write them into the books, then the books would be nothing more than lists of [...]

Remember how, last year, Barnes & Noble printed exclusive editions of Evil Spy School and Big Game, with lots of great extra bonus material, and they were really awesome?
Well, there’s now an equally-awesome exclusive edition of Spaced Out!
First of all, check out the special cover.  Oooh!  Shiny!

Even better, if you take the cover off, there’s [...]

Here’s that big update on Spy School #4 I’ve been promising for a while.
To start with, here’s the cover (once again, done by the immensely talented Lucy Cummins):

As you have probably deduced, this one involves a mission at a ski resort.  Why a ski resort?  because when I was growing up, it seemed that every [...]

I get this question more than any other (except ‘When is your next Spy School/FunJungle/Moon Base Alpha novel coming out?’) and it’s one of the most complicated questions to answer.  So I’m going to do my best to answer it right now.
Sort of.  It’s very hard to say where ideas come from.  They just kind [...]