The next set of HERO.COM and VILLAIN.NET books are starting to hit the shelves right now!! It’s always exciting to be let out of the cave (in between writing books 4 for January!) to see the fruits of your labour on the book shelves. Although the official release is July, the publishers have to ship [...]
Archive > June 2009
SIX OF US SET FREE NEXT SATURDAY!
WOO-HOO! The monsters are letting us out for ONE DAY ONLY to do a one off multi-author event at the brilliant AMAZING BOOKS FOR BOYS day in Abingdon on Saturday 20 June. Andy, Tommy, David, Sam, Joe and me (Ali) are all going to get to have an hour of fun on stage at the [...]
Japanese Monsters to get Special Underwater Flights of Stairs!
It’s true! My brother just sent me a link to a story about this dude: (S)he is a Japanese Giant Salamander. Here’s the link, which is to a post on Boing Boing with a video. Like my brother Jack says, “Slightly annoying video. Lovely beastie though!” Watch out for some heartbreaking night footage of a [...]
From the Minister for Monsters. Again.
Via TBM guest blogger, John Dougherty… Dear Mr Donbavand, Mr Hutchison, Ms Sparkes, Mr Melling, Mr Craig, Mr Robson, Mr Enthoven and Mr Briggs Thank you for your reply. I can appreciate that it must be difficult not to believe in monsters when several of them are holding you prisoner in a cave and feeding [...]
New Children’s Laureate
Congratulations to Anthony Browne on becoming the new children’s laureate. I’m looking forward to seeing how he continues the wonderful work of Michael Rosen (and whether he has a plan to get the eight of us out of here!) For more information on the role of the children’s laureate, visit the website here: http://www.childrenslaureate.org.uk
From the Minister for Monsters
Via TBM guest blogger, John Dougherty… Dear Mr Donbavand, Mr Hutchison, Ms Sparkes, Mr Melling, Mr Craig, Mr Robson, Mr Enthoven and Mr Briggs Thank you for your email to the Ministry of Monsters, describing how you and seven colleagues have been kidnapped and held prisoner by a gang of desperate monsters. Unfortunately we are [...]
Choices
Usually when I plot a story I try to reduce every decision to an either/or. If you’re writing a story or working out what should happen next in a story-plan and you think you’re stuck, you can always reduce your choices to two. Things become much simpler that way and can stoke some great imaginative [...]
Show Me the Monster!
When lovely Liz at blatantly brilliant blog My Favourite Books asked me to take part in her current Horror Blog Fest I was thrilled and chuffed and delighted. You can read wot I wrote here, but do click around: the Fest has included some of the finest writers of scary stories working today. They’ve certainly [...]
All of my ‘Itches’ have been scratched!
I think it safe to say that my fudge is going to a new home and I’m going to be buying Matt Price more books! As the French Open draws to its conclusion I think it fair to say that my choices of players in the fantasy tennis league were absolutely rubbish! It looks very [...]
Message from a concerned fellow author
From TBM guest blogger, John Dougherty… Dear captive authors Just came across the TBM website. Bad luck! It must be a bit miserable being trapped by monsters. Have you tried getting in touch with a Monster Investigator? The best I know of are Jack Slater, Monster Investigator and his partner Cherry Jackson, but if you [...]
