Here’s a pic of me doing my stuff during yesterday’s brilliant visit to Amersham School, in Buckinghamshire: See that display in the background? Take a closer look…! Aren’t these spectacular?? This fantastic display of TIM and BLACK TAT art was created especially for my visit by students in Amersham’s Year 8. Their work is going [...]
Category > Author Events!
Heroes vs Villains!
Andy Briggs and Mark Walden (author of the HIVE series) will be battling it out on stage in the Oxford Festival this Sunday!!! (5th April!) Come along for the Battle Royale and to vote for your favourite side… and to meet the authors while you can!! TICKETS ON SALE NOW!! – 2pm!! Price £3.50!! Click [...]
Screaming Spires
I managed to get a few days out of the cave to visit both Abingdon and Oxford… A HUGE thank you to Mark Thornton and everyone at Mostly Books in Abingdon for a tremendous event yesterday. I took my box of Scream Street relics down south for the audience to experience, and did my best [...]
Sweet and Sour Grapes in a Smug Sauce
As expected, I didn’t win the Enfield Children’s Book Award this morning. The monsters did! In a cruel joke, they let me out for the award ceremony, then sent one of their own to collect the award and laugh in my face. The monster they sent was a chilling beast disguised as a sweet an [...]
A Black Tie Affair
One of the Monsters in here has just handed me a very fancy, slime coated invitation… to an award ceremony! And I think if I do a little dance for the gatekeeper monsters I might be allowed out to attend. Turns out that my first Jimmy Coates book is up for the Enfield Children’s Book [...]
Cool School
I’ve been out in the fresh air for the past few days – running creative writing workshops at Emmaville Primary School in Ryton, Gateshead. I shall provide further details soon but, now I’ve been dragged back to the cave, I’m being made to clear up the remains of Joe’s sushi before I can go to [...]
The Papplewick Escape…
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel! However, it really was a train. Once the monsters had pushed me aside from the track (where I witnessed one of the beasts get hit by the locomotive and turned into instant slimy porridge) we emerged near the pristine lawns of Papplewick School in Ascot. Evening [...]
Are Zebras Monsters?
I was escorted out of the cave at dawn yesterday with a leather bag over my head. After several hours of disorientating movement, it was finally removed and I was horrified to see two things. First, the leather bag was in fact the scrotal pouch of the monster escorting me. The smell is still burning [...]
THEY’RE LETTING ME OUT THIS WEEKEND!
Can’t believe it! I get a pass to escape from my mildewy, maggot infested corner of the caves on Saturday – to further promote my latest novel, Frozen In Time. And amazingly, the monsters even have contacts with the Portsmouth News, who ran an article about what I am going to do at the Portsmouth [...]
Sneaky Deals?
So there I was, bucket of dribble and a mop (punishment for a bad drawing apparently), when this ‘thing’ oozes past me and what comes fluttering out of its gelatinous pocket but this leaflet. So, Tommy, I’m thinking – how did you manage to get a ‘pass’ out of here – you been cutting a [...]
