While busily working away on Hero.com 4, under the purple gaze of my Guard Monster, I was able to go on the computer. After brushing away the various bits of monster slime (left by Mark when he was eating some gruel over the keyboard) I was shocked to see the monsters had been surfing the [...]
Archive > May 2009
‘There’s something big out there…’
Two quick things to keep you ticking over… First up, I have the honour to present The Amazing Blog for Boys. This is a brand new site created by Mostly Books to promote their upcoming Amazing Books for Boys event — an event at which, in addition to talks by Robert Muchamore and Chris Bradford, [...]
Hours
I was up at 6am this morning. One of the monsters nibbled on my ear lobe and I was suddenly wide awake. This doesn’t usually happen. I’m a sleep-til-eleven but work-til-2am kind of writer. And I have no explanation as to why I wasn’t immediately sleepy again after I woke up so early today. I [...]
THREE CHEERS!
Sometimes promo events just go really well. It’s the combination of a great audience, who are attentive and excited in equal measure, a prepared author (once he or she has escaped from the dark dank monster caves), and a well organized maestro to put it all together. And today I got lucky, the planets were [...]
The sweet smell of (writing) success
I’ve been stuck in my corner of the cave for most of the week, working away on INVISIBLE FIENDS book 3. While writing a description of a brand new character, I found myself struggling to really get him clearly defined in my mind. Obviously, that’s a problem. If I, as the writer, can’t clearly visualise [...]
This could be useful …
Would you like to be able to draw cool cartoon monsters like this werewolf above? To be honest, drawing is something I’ve always been useless at. This website – How to Draw Cartoons, though, gives you a step by step guide on how to draw some of your favourite creatures. It offers tips on easy, [...]
Tales of The Black Carriage – Sanctuary, by Dean Vincent Carter
EXCLUSIVE TO TBM! A brand new story especially written for this site by DEAN VINCENT CARTER, author of The Hand of the Devil, Hunting Season and the forthcoming Blood Water. Remember the “olde worlde shiny black coach pulled by four horses“ from About Trapped By Monsters? Now read on…! TALES OF THE BLACK CARRIAGE – [...]
ESCAPE TO BIRMINGHAM..?
SHHHH! I am putting this one out in code. I’ve squeezed author tears out of all my co-captives (Baz gave me by far the most!) and doused this message in them, creating an anti-monster cloaking device. It’s patchy, but so far they don’t seem to have picked up on what I’m about to reveal. The [...]
Monster News on Global Warming!
The polar bears have begun taking their revenge for our abuse of the environment. It seems they’re angry that we’re causing their ice cap to melt. Very angry! If you want to see more pictures like this, take a look here: Freaking News!
A Monster’s Favourite?
Looks like this bad boy has been reading one of our books. Question is, which one of us is it? And how did he (or she), get this dragon interested in the first place? Hmm…
