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One week until the competition finishes. If you want to win a new laptop, you'll have to get good at flying your dragon quickly! Try the game on my website and see if you can master it. Register any score with your name and email address and you will be entered into the draw for one of 20 books. Finish the game and enter the draw for the laptop. It's not easy, but there are some who have done it.

Don't worry - your email address will only be used once to tell you whether you have won or not. Th… Continue

I loved this little video clip. It struck a chord with me. I am that baffled monk. Any new technology has to be explained to me again and again ... preferably in English, though!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

By chance I discovered the gruesome answer to this question whilst on holiday in Porto Santo recently. As I can't work out how to post pictures here, I'll direct you to the blog on my website to see the shocking truth ...

http://www.markrobsonauthor.com/2008/08/21/where-did-all-the-hobbits-go/

Not only did I manage to finish the first draft of the third in my new Dragon Orb series today, but the online game, which has been produced to help promote the new series went live. Both hugely exciting things. The game still needs a few tweaks ... as will the book, of course, ... and some sound adding ... no, not to the book,(!) but it does look quite smart. As it happens I'm useless at computer games, so I find the thing totally impossible and haven't got past the first level, but I'm sure th… Continue