TBM authors Niamh Sharkey and David Melling part of an Illustration Evening in Easons in Dublin, Ireland.
Archive > May 2011
Gateway To Amazing
On Saturday UK national newspaper The Guardian published this fantastic article, in which a host of awesome authors picked out some of their very favourite SF. Personal highlights for me included Stephen Baxter writing about the thoroughly astonishing Hothouse by Brian Aldiss, Liz Jensen writing about Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, China Mieville [...]
Wordies Episode 4
After a busy week in Morecambe, I dashed up to Scotland last night to take part in the Booked! Festival in West Dumbartonshire. My appearance here is rather unusual as, instead of performing by myself, I get to take part in two joint aevents with fellow monster captive, Invisible Fiends author, Barry Hutchison. More details [...]
Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy
When I think of Tarzan, my mind automatically goes back to this series with Ron Ely that I loved as a boy: However, if this is your image of Tarzan: the cultured gentleman who has returned to the jungle to escape civilization, then you will need to set it aside to read Tarzan: The Greystoke [...]
TARZAN IS HEADING YOUR WAY!
I had a great day yesterday at the Maidstone Book Awards where I gave my first ever Tarzan presentation and sold the very first book – ever, anywhere in the world! In fact, it was the first time I had even seen the book. That changed this morning when a rather nice packaged arrived at [...]
How To Promote Your Books Online – Part 1
Admit it. Go on… Just to yourself. You know you should be doing more to promote your books online. Everybody’s talking about the benefits of it these days and, deep down, you’ve got that nagging feeling that you could be doing more. The problem is, no-one tells you how to promote yourself on the Internet. [...]
HOW DO YOU DO IT?!
I’m always being asked how I do it. And I ought to know. I mean… I’ve done it around 30 times by now so I really should have worked it out. How DO I write stories? When I’m asked this during a school visit I often feel a bit awkward because I know that children [...]
Ooh, me aching fingers
It feels like forever since I’ve posted on here. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to, mind, it’s just that I’ve been saddled with a bit of a hefty workload over the past couple of months. This has meant that I had to forget about everything that didn’t involve writing or promoting my books. I [...]
