I hope that everyone reading this had a very fine Christmas, and that your presents were just what you wanted. Did you receive Book Tokens, by any chance? Are you looking for suggestions on what to get with them? Well, it happens that just off the top of my head I can think of seven [...]
Archive > December 2009
Twas the Night Before Christmas…
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the cave Not an author was stirring, for none were that brave. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that the Santa-Claws soon would be there. The monsters were nestled all snug in their pits, All hairy, or slimy or covered in zits. [...]
HO! HO! HO!
Reindeer Goblins! They’re out there…ready…waiting… Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Christmas Kraken
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for one of my absolute favourite monsters, THE KRAKEN. Reprising the classic look from Ray Harryhausen’s original film, the Kraken appears for a whole gleeful climactic eighteen seconds in the current trailer(2) for the soon-to-be-released remake of Clash of the Titans. To my enormous delight, the Kraken was [...]
Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles teaser trailer
I had a seemingly endless number of technical problems while trying to get this thing shot and edited, and the finished video is nothing like I had intended. It was really just cobbled together from the few bits of footage on the video that hadn’t been corrupted by the faulty tape heads. Anyway, this is [...]
And Another Thing…
It’s taken me a while to get to as – well, I’m trapped in a cave by slavering monsters – but I’ve finally managed to sit down and read And Another Thing… – the sixth installment of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series, written by Eoin Colfer. Now, I suspected I might enjoy [...]
Excitement and Anticipation
When I first started out as an author, I made the decision to self publish my first book. I did so before really exploring the traditional publishing route properly. If I had persevered, my first series might have eventually been published by a major publisher … but I doubt it. The story in The Forging [...]
Christmas Story: the Anti-Claus
As it’s almost Christmas again – I thought I’d dig out a Scream Street short story I wrote this time last year: The Anti-Claus. Hope you enjoy it… — The Anti-Claus by Tommy Donbavand Luke Watson stood in Scream Street’s square and gazed up at the giant Christmas tree in its centre. Lengths of steaming [...]
HarperCollins want your shorts
By “shorts” I mean “short stories”. Sorry if I caused any confusion there. I found the following on the BookArmy site and thought maybe it would be of interest to some of you. HarperCollins and Act on C02 are running a writing competition. They would like you to re-write a short story or fairytale to [...]
