For those of you who haven’t seen them yet – here are the covers for HERO.COM 4: CHAOS EFFECT and VILLAIN.NET 4: COLLISION COURSE – Available in Jan 2010! And the breaking news is that there will be HERO.COM 5 and VILLAIN.NET 5 coming in Jan 2011! In the meantime, don’t forget to check out [...]
Archive > July 2009
Gah!
My brother Jack just sent me a link to something rather disturbing: Two alternatives. Either this is one of the most brilliant art installations I’ve ever seen — or the news from outside the caves is even worse than we feared. Has the invasion begun, at last? ;p
Kong is King!!
I have been silent for far too long! Initially, it was because I decided to lick the moisture from the rocks down here in the caves and my tongue grew to about two metres in length and my fingers swelled so I couldn’t type. Then, the Monsters let me go to Monster Land… better known [...]
Bloody Brilliant
Over the weekend I devoured (or was devoured by?) this: Blood Water by Dean Vincent Carter is a brutal blast of bio-horror in the pulsing vein of classic shockers by James Herbert and Shaun Hutson. In (heh!) more ways than one as you’ll discover if you read it, it’s perfect for a rainy afternoon. I’ve [...]
Brilliant Dawn
Arriving at the final book in a series can be both exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time – a little bit like waiting to find out what’s in the soup each Friday lunchtime here in the monsters’ caves. Sometimes the final episode of a tale is nothing more than the tying up of loose [...]
LISTEN WITH MONSTER
A parcel from my agents arrived in the caves today. I have no idea how post manages to find us when rescuers don’t. I sometimes wonder whether our agents have realized that we’ve been twice as productive since getting incarcerated, so they’ve made a lucrative pact with our publishers and families to keep us down [...]
Shadow Portal
Another day, another great story cooked up by the young people of Northamptonshire. Today I visited the libraries in Thrapston, Rushden and Irthlingborough. I gave the first group the option of carrying on the story started by the young people in the group of libraries I visited on Monday, or starting a fresh one of [...]
Thinking in pictures or ‘Fantasy Sketches’
As an author and illustrator I’m often asked what comes first, the words or the picture. Well, in truth it’s a bit of both. I like to write lists, single words usually, that form the beginnings of a busy page of circled words connected with arrows and phrases, in an attempt to spark an interesting [...]
Monster Art Attack!
By way of the ever excellent Boing Boing, here are some moist, fresh tentacles for you…! This is King of the Sea Monsters, by Davey Wong. It’s part of Monster?, a current exhibition of fabulous monster artwork: click on the link to see the whole thing online! Now: How about making some monster art of [...]
HAPPY TO BE IN THIS CAVE!
It’s been a while since the monsters have let me write a bit of blog, because they’ve been making me write flat out to finish my current adventure. Slibberflob Wartpop stood over me and periodically pressed my nose to a spinning grindstone that he’d made with cave rock and the spindle off an old record [...]
