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 [...]
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Anyone for a game of hangman with a difference?
My eleven year old daughter took great delight in showing me this at the weekend and I wasn’t sure whether to be horrified, or amused. If you want to pass a few gruesome minutes, why not try to take a little ragdoll man and swing him through a series of caves like spiderman? Try not [...]
Get Your Crawl On
This… …is the new unabridged audio version of my book CRAWLERS. I’m delighted with it, and to celebrate its launch there’s a there’s a giveaway / competition going on right now at Spine Chills, the bloodcurdling blog of the supremely sinister Holly ‘Heart of’ Harkness. For the chance to win one of these fine items, [...]
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 [...]
Pssst!
Remember The Sixth Gun, the awesome cowboys-and-monsters comic I recommended back in Feb? Well now you can download the first issue as a PDF to try for free, here. Volume 1 was ace, and I’m counting the days ’til Volume 2 comes out next month. Here’s a quick video trailer for the series to whet [...]
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 [...]
Blood of the Witch
The postman was very kind to me today – he delivered my copy of the US audiobook version of Scream Street 2: Blood of the Witch, created by Brilliance Audio for Candlewick Press and read by MacLeod Andrews. Listen to an exclusive excerpt here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Dreadful Desktops!
What does your computer desktop wallpaper say about you? Well, it could say: “I read the coolest, creepiest books out there!” Check out the brand new Scream Street 11: Hunger of the Yeti desktop wallpapers for your PC here: http://bit.ly/dWtxUJ Simply choose the size that’s right for your screen, right click and save the file [...]
