Here’s a follow-up message I received in response to my previous post. Jacob from Coventry wrote: Hey Sam, just wanted to say thanks, I have decided to write a book upon seeing that. I know it won’t be anything special but when I finish it I would love for you to read it. Thanks Sam, [...]
Archive > March 2010
How To Get Published (and a SPIDERCAT)
Ali from Illinois just asked me a question: How exactly do I go about publishing a book? I wrote [Ali's project - secret!] and I want to get it published, but I don’t know exactly how to do that. I was wondering if you could tell me how I go about the process. Here’s what [...]
Hugless Douglas
I’ve already spoken a few times about how I go about getting ideas, and about which comes first, the words or pictures. So I hope I’m not treading on old ground by sharing with you a recent short article I wrote for the lovely people at Red House, and their monthly magazine. It was linked [...]
Free Digital Monster Comic!
I’ve just received word, via the cave’s decrepit acoustic speaking tubes, that KONG: KING OF SKULL ISLAND, the comic I wrote (well, wrote the later issues) is free to download on Sony’s new digital comic platform for the PSP! Check it out here! The rest of Kong will be coming in the next few weeks [...]
Ted Hughes FTW!
Some news from outside the caves that made me happy this week: the memory of Ted Hughes and his amazing writing is going to be honoured by a permanent memorial in Poets’ Corner in London’s Westminster Abbey. Three of my very favourite books in the whole world were written by Ted Hughes – namely his [...]
Coming Soon: A Story Never Told Before!
Stand by for a brand new collaborative story to be created spontaneously and episodically by all eight TBM authors. Over the coming weeks – or until the wheels fall off – we will be TAKING TURNS to write… THIS: THE UNSPEAKABLE HORROR! may (or may not) contain: A grater! A pair of broken spectacles! A [...]
A Taste of Freedom!
Last Sunday, I was dragged from my cave in the dark, wee hours and bundled into the back of a van which – for some reason – was filled with boxes of books. Little did I know I would be spending the next week being paraded around schools in Inverclyde and East Dunbartonshire on what [...]
Win a signed copy of VILLAIN.NET
It’s officially “Evil Week” on Villain.net. To celebrate, the Council of Evil are giving away signed copies of VILLAIN.NET 1: COUNCIL OF EVIL. All you have to do is design your own supervillain, give him/her/it a cool name and some wonderfully sinister powers then email it here! The competition runs until Sunday 4th April and [...]
No Prizes …
… for guessing what happened at the end of this event! Ali, Andy and I thought to make a break for it. We all raced out to Stratford upon Avon and hid amongst a host of librarians, teachers and other authors, but to no avail. Noodlepoop the Furious tracked us down by posing as the [...]
Collection Perfection
Lately I’ve been reading short story anthologies – collections of stories by different writers. Here are two I’ve particularly enjoyed. The Apex Book of World SF, edited by Lavie Tidhar, is a real treat. In the UK, where I’m from, we’re used to getting our science fiction pretty much exclusively from English-speaking countries – but [...]
