I spoke to some bright young things at a school in Stubbington yesterday and we got to talking about poems at one point. What can you do to polish up your poetry, we pondered? Now, I don’t claim to be a poet, but I do dabble a bit. One thing that has made me love [...]
Archive > January 2010
The Archaeology of a Writer’s Computer
One of the lovely things about being a writer is that readers often send you stories they’ve written. I get all sorts – long, short, absurd, realistic, dark, hilarious, nonsensical, brilliant, not-s0-brilliant, emailed documents, hand-written parchments… it’s all going on. And sometimes it’s hard to know how to respond, so it’s good to have a reminder [...]
Dent de Sabre
Anyone for French? I love the covers that my French publishers are putting on the Dragon Orb books. Here’s the latest that’s due to launch in March. What do you think?
Let’s get reeeady to Mummmble!
There is now just over one week until my first ‘proper’ book – Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles – is officially published. It’s possible you may start to see it in bookshops before then, though, and if you do it’d be fab if you could let me know. It’s a very exciting feeling having your first [...]
Monster Propaganda!
To my horror, I’ve just uncovered incontrovertible evidence that the monsters are currently engaged in a stealthy public relations drive. All over the world’s media the psychological warfare has begun. Seeds of doubt are already being planted in hapless human minds. The old certainties about monsters are being eroded and undermined, leaving humanity utterly vulnerable [...]
Hype The Skype
I’ve been trying something new this week – and it’s been great! Instead of driving from my dark, damp cave to Kent and back (270 miles each way) to run my creative writing classes, I’ve been linking up with year 8 pupils at Holmesdale Technology College over the Internet each day. Using Skype (a free [...]
The Fantastic Percy Jackson!
If you’ve not yet read a Percy Jackson book yet, then get yourselves to the library, or your nearest bookshop without delay and get one immediately! I think it’s one of the best series out there at the moment and was very excited to discover that the first book of the series Percy Jackson and [...]
The Magnificent Mr Carey
One of the highlights of 2009 for me was discovering the work of Mike Carey. I first got into his writing through the Felix Castor novels, a series of wonderfully bleak and atmospheric supernatural mysteries involving a hardbitten exorcist and his adventures in the darkest corners of London. But my growing addiction to Carey’s particular [...]
One Year On…
We’ve been here for a year now. Perhaps if I can find a way inside your computer, I may be able to get a message out…
