A page from my current sketchbook showing some familiar characters I like doodling at the moment. You may recognise some of the ‘themes’ from recent posts over the past couple of weeks.
Archive > June 2011
Villains by Justin Somper
As a special additional date to his hugely successful blog tour, Vampirates author, Justin Somper, has battled his way deep into the caves to share his thoughts on bad guys with us. Immortal War is the fang-tastic finale to the Vampirates series so, if you haven’t already, sink your teeth into a copy today! — [...]
Strange noises and yellow balls!
In a short while television will be dominated by the grunt-fest that is Wimbledon. Short skirts, grunting ladies, monsters in disguise… and some that are not! Anyway, I thought I’d set up a mini-league fantasy tennis team for those who are interested. It’s free, it’s a bit of fun and it might add a bit [...]
‘Zonely Love
I’d heard that Interzone was one of the best places to find great new Science Fiction and Fantasy short story writing in the UK, but until just lately I never got around to checking out the magazine properly. This is the current issue… …and it’s terrific! In particular, Suzanne Palmer’s The Ceiling is Sky and [...]
A Monster Bedtime Read!
One of the few good things about life in the caves is the internet connection. It does allow me to spend time Skyping with my kids and they especially like bedtime stories. It is a bit worrying that it is often stories about monsters that are most often requested, especially given my predicament for the [...]
A milky dunking
Way back in November, top author, Jamie Rix, wrote a guest post for the blog. He wrote another one a couple of months later, but it got lost in one of Snurgle’s fat folds, and has only recently been discovered. We’ve also started hearing some groaning and whimpering from another part of the cave, which [...]
A Great Blog!
There are only a handful of blogs that I follow on a regular basis but if I had to pick my favourite it would probably this one here: mattiasa.blogspot.com/ The Swedish illustrator Mattias Adolfsson, blogs pretty much everyday, often using a moleskin to make these incredible drawings. As an illustrator you are often asked where [...]
HOW MANY BOOKS CAN YOU JUGGLE?
The Circus Stars Summer Reading Challenge has just kicked off with a fab new website – and some fab new videos from assorted children’s authors (including me!) to encourage you to get down to your local library and sign up. You can’t miss it! Check it out… HERE!
First Class – Four Grins
After being sniffy about the photoshopped poster in my last post, I’m back to tell you X-Men First Class is bloomin’ brilliant! I went the other night with a few friends and came out grinning. If I was running a star system here for my occasional ramblings about movies, books, TV stuff etc, I’d probably [...]
Scarily Pretty, Huh?
I’m a big, BIG fan of properly painted posters, especially for scary movies! I’ve got an original framed print of the ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ poster hanging in my study and, often when I’m supposed to be writing, I find myself staring into the depths of it. I just love the smoky-bronze, sepia-tinged glory of the [...]
