Yes. It’s true. I was given a pass recently by the monsters for good behaviour (writing a nice monster into my next book – he’s a veloceraptor called Nipper!) for a couple of weeks in the sun with my family. We went to the Algarve in Portugal, but even there I could not escape the [...]
Archive > August 2010
Come Dine With Us…
A little bit of news for any Scream Street fans in the Emerald Isle… I’m going to be at the Mountains to Sea Book Festival in Dún Laoghaire next month and, as part of the fun, you can now book a place at the Monster Mountains to Sea Author Lunch. A barrel full of top [...]
25 Books Every Kid Must Read!
The Big Issue in Scotland recently asked a bunch of children’s authors (is ‘bunch’ the right collective noun for children’s authors? Maybe it should be a library of children’s authors? Or a chapter? Sorry, I digress…) The Big Issue in Scotland recently asked a chapter of children’s authors (myself included) to name some of the [...]
My first day’s parole
So in comes Maggotwump on Tuesday morning with my breakfast bowl of toenails (not bad; a little like Special K) and he’s wearing a kilt. (It’s wearing a kilt, I mean. I’m never entirely sure about Maggotwump.) ‘Today you go Embra Inter-int-imber- ah, Big Bok Festival. Sign boks.’ Reader, I kissed him. When I recovered [...]
Advice for Writers
Lately I’ve had a lot of messages (from kids & adults) asking for advice about writing. I have lots of serious advice. Much of it is on my website, which I must update now that it seems more people are interested. Advice about stories, about creativity, about the process… But there are also a few [...]
A Postcard from Cosmo
I found this on my drawing board this morning. previous postcard / next postcard
8 of a Kind(le)
Breaking news here in my corner of the cave – all 8 published Scream Street books are now available for Amazon’s Kindle e-reader! Yes, it’s official – Scream Street has gone digital! You can read all about the release for The Kindle in the publishing industry magazine, The Bookseller, here… http://bit.ly/d9rBqs …and download the books [...]
I escaped! (But not for long…)
OK, I’ve not been in the cave for long, but I’ve been quiet. Very quiet. Why? Well, I’ve been sneakin’ and peakin’ and pokin’ around… And I was lucky enough to find myself out of the cave for a moment. Don’t know how it happened. Can’t see it happening again; that escape route was not [...]
Ludicrous in Lincoln
As if the pictures weren’t horrifying enough, further evidence of the humiliations of Mark, Tommy, Ali and myself at May’s Trapped By Monsters event at Lincoln Book Festival has just emerged in the form of this video, by Julie Catterson. Thanks, Julie. You really shouldn’t have. ;D Sam PS: Mark has trained in Tae Kwon [...]
