profile picture

49982339

About Me

I write the Jimmy Coates series - action thrillers published by HarperCollins in the UK and the USA, in the same genre as the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, Cherub by Robert Muchamore, Young Bond etc.

Except that Jimmy Coates is a little different to the standard spy characters in those other books. It's a bit more like The Bourne Identity, but for 8 to 13 year olds.

In the UK: Jimmy Coates: Killer, Jimmy Coates: Target, Jimmy Coates: Revenge and Jimmy Coates: Sabotage are out now. That's the order they go in, but you can read them in any order.

In the US: 'Jimmy Coates: Assassin?' is available now in paperback. 'Jimmy Coates: Target' is out in hardback.

For more about the books and the characters, exclusive competitions, inside information and sneak previews, check out www.myspace.com/jimmycoates
--------

Find out more about me at my site:

www.joecraig.co.uk.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

For Joe Craig's Mailing List, with exclusive access to hidden pages on his website, all the latest news, updates, and competitions with really small prizes.

Browse Inside this book Get this for your site

My Blog

Jimmy Coates: Myspace

You're going to notice a few changes on my page in the next few days. That's because everything is going JIMMY COATES. I'm celebrating the launch of the new Jimmy Coates myspace page: www.myspace.com/...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:54:00 GMT

Finest City in the Midlands - maybe

Birmingham. Ever been? I'm talking about the place in the middle of Britain, by the way - not any of the other Birminghams that you guys might have hidden away in other parts of the World. (For exampl...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:23:00 GMT

My Hero

I'm a simple boy, with simple pleasures. All I ask is that every once in a while somebody blows me away with a moment of inspiration. Or four and a half minutes of it. Like this: Oscar Peterson, geniu...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:56:00 GMT

Me author - HEAR ME ROAR

Wanna hear what I sound like when I put on my poshest voice and act all 'BBC'? Of course you do. And the BBC knows it too, so they made a little programme about me. Check it out. Click here, then clic...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:32:00 GMT

Let there be mess

It's dark down here in my dark den of darkness. I thnk all the Jimmy Coates books from now on are going to end up with even more scenes at night, or set on very dark days. I've just started writing th...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:42:00 GMT

Brought to you in glorious Smell-o-vision

I used to love the Sherlock Holmes stories - no wait, what am I saying? I still love them. But I used to read them more regularly than I do now, and then I got into the many different movie versi...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:54:00 GMT

One Tuck, One No-Tuck

Right at this very moment, there are hundreds of very talented authors consuming gallons of champagne at a top secret location in central London. There are canopes wavering only briefly between waiter...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:22:00 GMT

Who are you?

I've just seen how many hits I've been getting on this  blog - it's about twenty times more than I get on my regular blog, and I don't even post anything on this one. So this is a bit of an exper...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:16:00 GMT

Take your Revenge

Jimmy Coates: Revenge has just hit the shelves here in the UK. It's the third book in the Jimmy Coates series, and I've tried to make sure it's even more packed with action and twists than the first t...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:12:00 GMT

Jimmy Coates: Assassin? - US Paperback

I've just been stacking up a few piles of the hardback US edition of my first book, so it reminded me to tell you all that the paperback is now available all over the US. It should be in your local bo...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:07:00 GMT