Colin Parsons

Author of fantasy fiction for children and young adults. His books include the Wizards' Kingdom series and The Curious World books.
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Event Schedule

  • 07/03/2019 09:00
       St.Mary's Catholic Primary School Crewe CW2 8AD
  • 12/03/2019 09:00
       Newall Green Primary School Manchester M23 2YH
  • 15/03/2019 09:00
       Broad Heath Community Primary School Coventry CV6 5TL
  • 18/03/2019 09:00
       Athelstan Primary School Sheffield S13 8HH
  • 19/03/2019 09:00
       Radford Primary School Nottingham NG7 3FL
  • 27/03/2019 09:00
       Pennine Way Primary School Carlisle CA1 3SN
  • 18/05/2019 10:00
       Pontypridd Children's Book Fest 2019
  • 02/06/2019 10:00
       LAZZMATAZZ Literary Festival Llandovery 2019
  • 05/06/2019 09:00
       Long Meadow School Milton Keynes
  • 06/06/2019 09:00
       Mayfield Primary School Cambridge CB4 3HN

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Colin R Parsons


ThunderPoint Publishing

on February 08th, 2019 at  10:10 am

The Man with the Black Shoebox and other Strange Stories, is my first YA book and will be published by ThunderPoint Publishing in 2020.


ThunderPoint

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Shortlisted for the Cover Design Awards 2018

on December 30th, 2018 at  6:22 pm

I am so pleased to announce that my book GHOSTED was shortlisted for the Cover Design Awards 2018. My son Ryan did the fantastic cover design.

Cover Design Awards

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Christmas is here...

on November 14th, 2018 at  2:46 pm

Fun & Festive Stories

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The day we met Jasper Fforde - RBF2018

on September 02nd, 2018 at  11:23 pm

Jasper Matt Colin

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Grand Opening...

on July 05th, 2018 at  7:24 pm

I had the honour of opening the 'Story Shed' at the Oasis Academy Warndon Worcester on Thursday July 5th 2018.

Oasis Opening

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Merthyr Tydfil High School...

on July 01st, 2018 at  8:34 am

I don't only have fun running talks and workshops in primary schools. This is Pen-Y-Dre High School in Merthyr Tydfil for Year 7,8 & 9. Great feedback from pupils too.

High school talk

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Readers Comments:

Wizards' Kingdom... 'My dad is a writer, but I don't read his books. I read Wizards' Kingdom and couldn't stop reading it and I thought it was great. It has loads of adventure and loads of fighting and I thought it was brilliant!' Ryan Ellory, son of R J. Ellory (Author of 'A Quiet Belief in Angel's' and 'A Simple Act of Violence.' Published by Orion.)

I really had to think about this review before writing it. There is so much right with Crank Tech One but there is also a lot that is wrong. But overall my experience reading the book was positive. The best thing to say about Crank Tech Run is that it was a fun read. The book is quirky, the story a bit different, it had some fun twists to the story and overall I read it with a smile on my face. I’ve read a lot of “robot” stories and seen a number of “robot” movies and this story was fairly original and not a rehash of plots I had seen before.

However, the writing is very uneven. There are points where I was impressed with a well written section, and then cringing at the writing in another section. Many times the story progressed forward brilliantly – but at other points it relied on hokey contrivances. If the entire book were written up to the standards of its best segments, it would be a five star sci-fi classic. The poor parts had the effect of pulling me out of the story, which is never good.

I am going with four stars because the plot was original, and there were several shining moments in the book.

L Sweet 4 stars October 12 2015

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