Remember the post I wrote a couple of months back about the poll that awesome independent booksellers The Big Green Bookshop have been running to determine people’s Top Fifty Favourite Books Of All Time? Well, the results are in. All this week on their blog the Big Green Booksellers will be counting down the chart [...]
Archive > November 2009
Shock! Horror! Competition!
OK, so no one really got going with my last effort for a caption competition, so I’ll scrap it and give you a couple of different options to work with. Here’s a bunch of authors and librarians at Pizza Express after the Oxon & Berks Regional Final of the Kid’s Lit Quiz. Can anyone think of [...]
Another rambling mess of a video
This one isn’t quite as rambling and nonsensical as the last one, simply because I had questions to answer so I knew what I was going to talk about. Still, my presenting style is about as far as you can get from ‘polished’, so the whole thing is still largely incoherent. In this one I [...]
JETHRO’S ACE OF HEARTS – Slice 10 of 13
JETHRO’S ACE OF HEARTS a thirteen-part story, EXCLUSIVE to Trapped By Monsters story (c) Sam Enthoven / illustrations (c) David Melling, 2009. All rights reserved. (Click here for previous slices: 1st ; 2nd ; 3rd ; 4th ; 5th ; 6th ; 7th ; 8th ; 9th) -Tenth Slice- ‘Common enough, I assure you,’ said [...]
Looking for your questions
I’m in the middle of planning out some future video blogs (although I use the word “planning” in its loosest possible sense) and I thought it’d be good to get some questions from readers of the blog which I could answer in the video. So, if there’s something you’ve always wanted to ask an author [...]
LIMITED EDITION NOW ON SALE
Woo-hoo! The Monsters have allowed me to set up a little cave industry, selling a very short run of my novel Miganium to Shapeshifter fans via my website. My designer, Phil Cole, taking instructions from me via MonsterWeb email, has revamped the whole site and put a PayPal bit in. I’ve already had some orders [...]
Tis the Season to be Joyous!
My love of the muppets is well documented. (Even though some of them are monsters!) One of my favourite characters is Beaker, the hapless, disaster-prone subject of so many muppet experiments. Just had to share this clip of Beaker expressing his musical side with a special rendition of ‘Ode to Joy’. Gotta love the muppets!
Sheffield Children’s Book Award
Ah, now then. I knew there was something. I’ll be in Sheffield on Tuesday 24th. Why? Well, Tree Goblins has been shortlisted in the Shorter Novels Category. Probably should have mentioned this earlier. Check out the shortlist at www.sheffieldchildrensbookawards.co.uk Wish me luck!
EEEEEEEEEEK.
And other excited noises. I’ve just seen Frozen In Time on Blue Peter. Blue Peter! If you want to see it, along with the other books shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2010 go HERE. You’ll need to whizz the thingy at the bottom along to about 13.40 minutes in. Don’t forget to whoop [...]
JETHRO’S ACE OF HEARTS – Slice 9 of 13
JETHRO’S ACE OF HEARTS a thirteen-part story, EXCLUSIVE to Trapped By Monsters story (c) Sam Enthoven / illustrations (c) David Melling, 2009. All rights reserved. (Click here for previous slices: 1st ; 2nd ; 3rd ; 4th ; 5th ; 6th ; 7th ; 8th) -Ninth Slice- ‘I mean, consider,’ continued Mr Theophilus, oblivious in [...]
