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A Christmas Kraal

S teve Cole, author of multiple children’s and Young Adult books, was faced with one of the more interesting challenges of his career when he was asked plus Jac to come up with a whole Doct anthology of Tenth Doctor Christmas tales. “At first “ I wasn’t sure whether they were asking me to submit one short story for a collection,” he recalls, “but it slowly f dawned on me that they th were asking for ten…”

Since this was a seasonal Old Sai release, Steve needed to Chris come up with ten outlines (to for Ten Days of Christmas S in a single day. “That’s a great focuser to the mind, when you haven’t got any time and you have to drive your imagination through that se azbantium wall! They all it s had to have Christmas links to the Kr them; other than that, I could do what I wanted, although it made sense to have some with TV companions, some without.”

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