Anastacia Carp's ordinary life at Claremont High gets spun a complete 360 by the arrival of Toot, the hot hieroglyph-slammin' freshman who puts the "man" back in "romance". Anastacia is blown away by how Toot is at least 50% hotter than the love interests in any of the other novels you're considering reading today, and has at least twice as many abs. But it seems Toot is hiding a darker secret. Is his ability to summon pyramids somehow linked to the pharaohs of ancient Egypt? And is he behind all the mummies rising around the school? Yes, but Anastacia doesn't know that yet; that's the plot.
Alex has led a largely comfortable but unremarkable life in North London, and more recently Oxford. His main hobbies as a kid were reading and sulking.
When he's not writing, he's performing with his improvised comedy troupe, Hivemind Improv. And when he is writing, he's procrastinating.
The first idea for The God Machine came when he was 19, shortly after falling off a horse. Or possibly shortly before - the exact chronology is lost to history. So is the horse's name, in case you were wondering.