I managed to escape the caves recently, and spent a wonderful day at Gladstone’s Library in Flintshire, working with a group of primary school teachers on techniques to help boys get into writing. In addition to being a sumptuous setting for an enjoyable day of workshops, I was also lucky enough to spend the night [...]
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Story Spark at The Ark!
One of the really great fun things to do as an author is events. You get to meet your readers and have lots of fun! But I have to admit yesterday the nerves had got me. My last event of 2010 was a session that I really fretted over, StorySpark at The Ark in Dublin. I think [...]
Get On The Bus
Last week I was incredibly honoured to take part in the 15th Anniversary celebrations of the National Literacy Trust’s National Young Reader Programme. And what a brilliant day it was… I boarded a no. 15 Routemaster bus at the London Dungeon along with the wonderful folk from the National Literacy Trust, some of my friends [...]
Monster On My Trail
Monster have been keeping a close eye on me in the last week while I travelled about. I skipped over to Kerry for some events in the Irish Children’s Book Festival, I hopped back to London for Haydon School’s Book Day and tonight I’ll be jumping (on a train) to get to Gloucestershire, where two [...]
Prepare To Be Scared
Edited together by the man himself, we present this harrowing Halloween video from the Spooktacular Scarefest of Thurs 23rd October – featuring Joseph Delaney, Sam Enthoven, Tommy Donbavand, Jon Mayhew and the TERRIFYING TIGHTS of Mr David Gatward!
Drawing Blood (Again)!
Last week I mentioned I’ll be spending a little time this weekend with Chris Mould (yes, that’s him in the picture – self portrait I may add). He’s the rather clever author and illustrator of, among his many impressive titles, the quite wonderful Something Wickedly Weird series. I’ll be joining him at Dean Clough in Halifax in [...]
Monstered!
The Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival on Saturday was awesome. Here’s a pic of Alexander Gordon Smith at our Chainsaw Gang Best of Horror Panel, introducing a personal friend of his – the disembodied head of one of the Wheezers from his fantastic Furnace books (click here for my review of those on TBM). Rather [...]
Drawing Blood!
As part of the build up (and beyond come to think of it), to The Halifax Ghost Story Festival (more on this soon), I am very lucky to find myself hung on the walls in Dean Clough Galleries in Halifax. Now, of course, I don’t actually mean that I am hung. No! It’s my drawings [...]
Doodling
Niamh Sharkey doodles with PJ Lynch, Tommy Donbavand. Has open studio event as part of Culture Night.
The Bride Of Donbavand
I’ve been missing from the caves for a while, but I do have what I think is a reasonable excuse… I got married! Yes, the monsters let me out so that I could tie the knot with Kirsty (although check out Deathspoon the Destroyer disguised as a little girl at our feet, there to make [...]
