Heyho, Guest blogger Laura here once more to share some monsterlicious news. For those of you who like monsters, movies and comics (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?) this is the stuff for you! You may recall my rather swift last post which mentioned my mental busyness on ‘super fun top secret project’ ???? No? [...]
Archive > July 2011
Spin City
The Book Spinner – aka Michael from Erdington Library in Birmingham – takes Scream Street 1: Fang of the Vampire for a spin!
Blood Gushing Nubs
It’s time to announce the winner of the Spinechills / Crawlers Competition, the horror writing contest that’s been running this past month or so based on the vile, mind-controlling creatures from my book CRAWLERS. Picking a winner was a nightmare. My congratulations and best wishes to runners-up Ajay, Veronica and Ecner for their bloodcurdling and [...]
The Thin Line: guest blogger Bryony Pearce on the blurring of real and fantasy monsters
When I was nine my mother had to be called into school. I was telling the other children ghost stories in the playground, and parents were complaining! Fascinated by ghosts from a young age, I particularly loved ‘true’ stories. I read book after book about ghostly encounters and legends. The idea gripped me and I [...]
King Gobbledegook
Now I’m very critical when it comes to pretty much anything I produce. There is always something I wish I had done better. Always. But sometimes I get close to where I was heading (in my mind), when I began the work. This illustration shows King Gobbledegook from the book The Tale of Jack Frost. Here [...]
The Way Through The Woods
It has long been observed that the phrase ‘cellar door’ is the most beautiful in the English language, perhaps because of its poetic sound and/or because of some romantic notion behind the meaning – the mystery of what lies beyond, the possibility of escape, of adventure, of release, of leaving the mundane world behind. Literary admirers of [...]
Drift / Grip
“Adults always say ‘That can’t happen’ or ‘that’s impossible’ …But we know that anything can happen. That’s why we’ve managed to survive.” -Sho, from vol. 3 of The Drifting Classroom, by Kazuo Umezu After a furious row with his mother before heading off late to his school in Tokyo, Sho Takamatsu’s morning already isn’t going [...]
Crazy Golf
Here’s another sample chapter from Boredom Busters for the Kindle – along with news that I’ve dropped the price to just 99p! — CRAZY GOLF Take your clubs and hit the green as you create obstacles for an indoor crazy golf course. Fore! Club Culture A golfer isn’t a golfer without a CLUB to [...]
Don’t judge a book by its cover (take a look inside as well).
I was leafing through an old sketchbook the other day and came across this sketch of Magpie, one of the characters from my picture book The Ghost Library. For some reason it triggered a comment made to me by a parent as I sat in a bookshop signing copies of the book at an event. [...]
Eat The Meatles
Look out – it’s a brand new Scream Street short story… — Eat the Meatles By Tommy Donbavand The ogre on duty at the stage door cracked his tattooed knuckles and ran a thick finger down the list of bands on his clipboard. The collection of zombies on the other side of the barrier waited [...]
