Please check out this wonderful new project, started by the talented author Keris Stainton, which aims to raise money to help victims of the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Authors For Japan is auctioning off signed books, manuscript critiques, character opportunities and much, much more – all donated by some of your favourite authors. My [...]
Archive > March 2011
Book Blitz
I’ve had a bit of a reading frenzy in the past few weeks. I started with Zero Moment, third in the Joshua Files by M.G. Harris and will shortly be reviewing the forthcoming title, Dark Parallel. Having recently been to compete in the British Tae Kwon Do Championships in Telford (I didn’t win anything – [...]
Wordies Episode 3
Have you ever wondered what mistakes new writers make in approaching agents or publishers? Or what is the greatest opening line of a novel? Or why the topic of elf costumes would reduce two fully grown men into fits of giggles? Then Wordies is for you! Wordies is a new podcast for writers and by [...]
Free and no catches!
I’ve been sneaking past the monsters when they snooze and doing some school events! Sometimes pupils ask if I get writer’s block. This is when the writer can’t think of ideas or write the story. I suppose it’s like being stuck on a question in class. I don’t really get writer’s block but sometimes I [...]
Horrifyingly Creative Kids
I’m still trying to recover from two school events in Newcastle last week. Why? Well, it’s simple: the ideas the groups came up with, their enthusiasm and humour, their general all round brilliance, astonished me. One girl, Emily, stood out in particular. “I’ve kind of written a book” she said. “Would you mind reading my [...]
Questions, Questions, Questios!
A couple of interviews I’ve done recently. I hope they’re of interest. Here’s the first one, which is about The Devil’s Triangle: The second is just a general chat about writing and how I became an author:
ICE CREAM NIGHTMARE
A monstrous TBM welcome to today’s Guest Blogger, illustrator Phil Harvey, who, for your shuddersome delectation, presents the following: “It’s a one page comic strip about an ICE CREAM NIGHTMARE. The whole strip was off the top of my head really. I have attached a ‘making of’ after the final version.” “I have been trying [...]
Before and After
Nearly finished The Totally Terrifying Three artwork – here’s another before and after piece. The last few weeks have been manic and, just like this character is doing, I’ve watched another deadline zip by this last week. Sigh. Still, it’ll all be forgotten when this little tinker finally makes it onto the bookshelves a few [...]
Viking part 2!
This is a couple of days late in arriving, but World Book Day has taken over and is eating all the monsters (and time) in the world. So here’s the second instalment of the Viking comic, and our trusty hero is returning from the hunt.
