{"id":1582,"date":"2014-02-26T12:33:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomastaylor-author.com\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2022-01-07T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T09:50:16","slug":"dan-shard-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/dan-shard-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan and the Shard of Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1739 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Si1-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dan and the Shard of Ice\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Si1-244x300.jpg 244w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Si1.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/>With the contract signed and the stars in alignment, I\u2019m delighted to announce that my trenchcoat-wearing teenage psychic detective, Dan, will be back for a third spook-busting instalment sometime next year. With his almost dependable invisible sidekick, Simon, Dan will be facing his greatest trial yet as he goes up against a poltergeist that has taken over London\u2019s mighty new skyscraper, the Shard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019d like to say that no fictional representations of expensive construction projects were damaged during the creation of this book, but that wouldn\u2019t be true. There are explosions. Lift shafts become death traps. Lightning and freak weather feature prominently. Of course, Dan takes all this in his stride. Well, almost\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of it all, there\u2019s a 400 hundred-year-old super-charged ghost to contend with. Not to mention a cheesy TV mystic and his film crew, flying kitchen knives and office hardware, a little girl with a terrible destiny, and something uncanny that lurks in the bins. Oh, and there\u2019s a helicopter too. And slugs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As ever, there will also be drawings, and I\u2019ll be sharing some of them here as I go. In the meantime, I\u2019d better send the first draft in to my editor, slugs and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the contract signed and the stars in alignment, I\u2019m delighted to announce that my trenchcoat-wearing teenage psychic detective, Dan, will be back for a third spook-busting instalment sometime next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-childrens-books","category-dan-and-the-dead"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dan and the Shard of Ice - Thomas Taylor - Author<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Book three 3 in the Dan and the Dead series by Thomas Taylor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dan and the Shard of Ice - Thomas Taylor - Author\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Book three 3 in the Dan and the Dead series by Thomas Taylor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/dan-shard-ice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Thomas Taylor - Author\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-26T12:33:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-07T09:50:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Si1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"413\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"507\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Thomas\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/\",\"name\":\"Thomas Taylor - Author\",\"description\":\"Eerie-on-Sea &amp; 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