The author copies of my latest book arrived at home the other day and, because I’ve been treating my personal monster jailer to lengthy tentacle massages lately (don’t ask!), I was allowed to nip back to my office and collect them. You can learn all about the book, Making a Drama Out of a Crisis, [...]
Archive > March 2009
Tommy’s Top Tips – Number 1: Literary Agents
Before I was trapped by the monsters, I was often asked for advice by new writers (as, I’m sure, were all my fellow captives). So, now I’ve got a bit of time on my hands, I’ve decided to post the occasional set of top tips in order to answer some of those queries. One of [...]
The Monsters Are On The Loose!
It looks like we authors are not the only ones at risk from the monsters! They could be spreading their wings (and tentacles) searching for fresh captives – in schools! Check out this wicked video from Lukas at Woolwich Polytechnic School as evidence… Get the Flash Player to see this content.
Finding your Cave!
No, this post is not going to tell you how you can get trapped by monsters as well – believe me, you don’t want to do that! This is a top writing tip: find your cave! One of the questions I’m most frequently asked by other would-be writers is: ’Do you have a study, and [...]
Cool School
I’ve been out in the fresh air for the past few days – running creative writing workshops at Emmaville Primary School in Ryton, Gateshead. I shall provide further details soon but, now I’ve been dragged back to the cave, I’m being made to clear up the remains of Joe’s sushi before I can go to [...]
Confession
Where’ve I been then? All this supposedly frantic activity for the week of World Book Day and yet I, Joe Craig, have remained strangely quiet. Have I been working too hard? Have I been pounding the roads travelling from school to bookshop to school? Was it the monstrous gag secured round my head by the [...]
Still Alive
Here’s GRANDVILLE, with another shot of some of the local wildlife in here: The caption is ‘The pit of “doublevores” (animals that eat at both ends) at the zoo.’ As anyone familiar with the character GLOAG SHARGLE from The Black Tattoo will know, it’s not the eating that tends to be the major problem with [...]
Quirky QEGS is Monster Success…
World Book Day dawned bright and sunny and I was temporarily blinded as the monsters shoved me out of a very long tunnel, into brilliant sunshine. As I staggered about, sniffing the air for discarded chocolate wrappers, several boys came up and told me I was in ‘KWEGS’. At first I thought this was some [...]
All time favourite children’s books
Over on my blog I’ve started a discussion about favourite childhood reads. I thought I’d bring the subject up here to see which books stick out as your favourites. I was always a big reader when I was young, although I actually skipped out a lot of children’s books and went straight into Terry Pratchett, [...]
