Readers still looking to get their dragon on after TBM’s own Mark Robson’s majestic Dragon Orb series, look no further: Temeraire, by Naomi Novik, is ace. It is the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Will Laurence has his career path in the Navy mapped out, but his plans are resoundingly scuppered when a captured [...]
Archive > July 2010
A Postcard from Cosmo
I found this on my drawing board this morning! previous postcard / next postcard
Dust Devil (with olives)
Here’s a small house monster I caught lurking behind my tea cup, and a bit of a nasty start it gave me too. This is a lesson to us all to keep things ship-shape and spick and span, or at least not in direct contravention of statutory hygiene requirements. If you don’t, the bits form [...]
China In My Hands
Look at these babies… My author copies of the Chinese version of Scream Street popped through my letterbox this morning, and I’m absolutely delighted with them! They look and feel fantastic and – in a completely unexpected move – the publisher has split book 7, Invasion of the Normals, into two volumes! My plan to [...]
Contender for my favourite book ever…
Many thanks to my good friend, David ‘The Witch’ Robinson, for posting a link to this book on my Facebook page. I am ordering it immediately. Here’s the blurb from Amazon: It’s Shatner VS Shatners! William Shatner? William Shatner. WILLIAM SHATNER!!! It’s the first ShatnerCon with William Shatner as the guest of honor! But after [...]
Are Owls Monsters?
After viewing this video I’m not sure. Watch out for the transformation into ‘Evil Owl.’ Thanks to my mate Simon J for sending me the link. Sam Next: Are Cows Monsters?
The Score
This is Alan Moore. He’s the author of lots of my favourite stories (including Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Top Ten and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, to name just a few) and he’s also a bit of a hero to me. These – as they appear in The Extraordinary Works of [...]
Life outside books
When one of my favourite editors left the publisher I work for a few years ago and I decided to draw this picture as a parting gift. These two critters are Fidget and Quilly (and their pet kitten). Characters that we worked on together for a couple of years. Well, I decided to show them [...]
DON’T LOOK…
…if you’re an arachnophobe. Much screaming in the Sparkes corner of the caves today – not over spiders but a batch of lovely shineeee books containing chapter samples from my new S.W.I.T.C.H. series which arrived by monster post. The series – six parts to start with – doesn’t come out ’til next February and April [...]
