Writer (noun). An organism that turns caffeine into books.

Hi. I write fiction for adults, children, and everyone in between. I'm a shameless genre-whore.

And yes, I do love coffee.

Vote on one of my chapters? That's a followin.

Comment on one of my chapters? You better believe that's a followin.

THE SLEEPERS: Upper middle grade adventure sci-fi fantasy humour mystery and a partridge in a pear tree.

THE DEVIL'S BONES is the sequel to Sleepers.

HOTEL AMBROSE: Weird urban fantasy set in the 1980s.

TALES: Short stories.

Some books I've enjoyed, in no particular order:

True Grit - Charles Portis
The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
Elizabeth Is Missing - Emma Healey
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Bridge To Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
The Outsiders - SE Hinton
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Devils of Loudon - Aldous Huxley
The Long Walk - Stephen King
Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Papillon - Henri Charriere
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Magician - Raymond Feist
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

and everything by...

Jonathan Stroud
Nelson Demille
Roald Dahl
Susanna Clarke
Robert Cormier
Ursula Le Guin
James A Michener
HP Lovecraft
John Steinbeck
Jack Vance
MR James
JK Rowling
Paul Jennings
W Somerset Maugham
Clark Ashton Smith
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • JoinedMay 30, 2015


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mchawkinsauthor mchawkinsauthor Apr 14, 2024 01:57AM
Began a new novel this morning.No it's not Sleepers Volume III, sorry.Knocked out 11 pages on the typewriter (yes I use a typewriter) in a couple of hours, and am excited to get back to it tomorrow...
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The Sleepers | The Cave of Wonders: Book 1 by mchawkinsauthor
The Sleepers | The Cave of Wonders: Book 1
Twelve-year-old Carmen has a secret: she can talk to her cat Grim. But the powerful Brotherhood has banned pets, and the penalty is death. Ward is the most wanted boy in the world. The only thing standing between h...
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The Devil's Bones | The Cave of Wonders: Book 2 by mchawkinsauthor
The Devil's Bones | The Cave of Wonders: Book 2
Something powerful is drawing Ward back to Devil's Island. Something he thought he had forgotten. He must evade vicious lighthouse keeper George Jaggles in order to rescue it, but Jaggles will soon be the least of...
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Hotel Ambrose by mchawkinsauthor
Hotel Ambrose
Two runaway children steal a baby and attempt to raise it themselves in the world's most haunted hotel. To Ben and Sophie the abandoned hotel seems like the perfect place to hide. No adult will ever find them ther...
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