Hey guys! A couple of weeks ago I achieved the impossible – I escaped from the caves!!! I won’t bore you with the intricacies of my escape plan – all I’ll say is it included a dark ritual that required 3 fingers from a writer’s hand. I’d like to thank Jon, Barry, and Sam for [...]
Archive > August 2010
Clumsies cover preview
I thought you might like to see the cover for the next Clumsies book, the Clumsies make a mess of the BIG show! So here it is. I have my name in lights, finally. This book will be published in January 2011, which sounds a long time away but isn’t really. Sadly, we can’t get [...]
Write Your Own Scary Stories Part Two!
Welcome to Part Two of my workshop on how to write your own scary stories! In Part One I talked about ways of finding ideas for a story by looking at your own worst fears – if you write about something that you are afraid of then it will seem genuinely terrifying to a reader! [...]
Scream Street 2.0
Great news for UK Scream Street fans – the official Scream Street website has undergone something of a face lift! With spooky new graphics, a new downloads section and more updates planned (Scream Street bookplates, anyone?), there’s a creepy new corner of the web to explore! Check out the new-look site here: http://www.screamstreet.co.uk Tommy
Enemies of the Writer – Part 1
In this occasional series I shall look at the main obstacles the writer faces when attempting to transfer words from the brainbox, down the arm, into the hand – or talon if you’re an owl – and thence via pen, crayon or keyboard (computer, not piano) onto paper for the reading of. Here is the [...]
SUMMER HOLIDAYS
What did you do on your summer holiday? Something exciting, I bet? Or maybe relaxing. Time to put your feet up and relax… That’s what I wanted to do. Really. I thought I’d treat myself to a nice drive around America. What could go wrong with that? My first stop was the beach, ready for [...]
ALI GOES BLUE… ONE MORE TIME…
Yes, that’s me. As a Pontin’s Bluecoat, 25 years ago. And spookily, this weekend I’m off to Pontin’s Pakefield camp, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, again – a quarter of a century later. And all because of Frozen In Time. It’s funny how being an author suddenly brings up stuff from your past. After FIT won the [...]
A Postcard from Cosmo
I found this on my drawing board this morning. previous postcard / next postcard
The Humans Are Coming…
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I’m a MASSIVE fan of Doctor Who – and not just the TV series; I’m also into the audio adventures, comic strips and, of course, the novels. And Doctor Who novels don’t come much better than David LLewellyn’s Night of the Humans. Landing on a hunk of [...]
A clutch of festivals
The last few weeks, it’s fair to say, have been quite hectic. As well as a rather stressful cave move, which saw me shifting my few remaining belongings along several miles of dark, cramped tunnels until I reached my new cell, I appeared at two different book festivals on the same weekend. Provided you count [...]
