Happy Halloween! The October 2010 edition of Scream Street‘s own podcast, The Screamcast, is now online – and it’s a special half-hour edition featuring special guest Barry Hutchison – fellow TBM captive and author of the spook-tacular Invisible Fiends series! Here’s Barry and I enjoying each other’s books at a recent joint event… You can [...]
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Cave author on shortlist….
Cave author Niamh Sharkey is shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards for On The Road with Mavis and Marge.
Competition Time!!!!
To celebrate the release of Furnace: Fugitives, the fourth and penultimate book in the Furnace series, I’m offering three Trapped By Monsters readers the chance to win all four books in the series so far, all signed! I’ll also throw in an exclusive Furnace poster (the one in the photo, it’s huge!) for each winner [...]
Competition time! (over at Scottish Book Trust)
I reviewed Hazel Allan’s fab, exciting and scary BREE McCREADY AND THE HALF-HEART LOCKET here a couple of weeks ago – well, the good news is the sequel is almost out! I can’t get my hands on a copy yet but I’ll be reviewing it when I do… and meantime you can enter a competition [...]
The Spookiest Opening Paragraph in Horror History!
Hi guys I was recently on a book tour thingamy in Ireland and, arriving at my hotel, was horrified to discover that I’d left my copy of Michael Grant’s HUNGER at home! Very annoying, as I was halfway through and enjoying the follow-up to GONE immensely (by the way, head over here for Barry’s take [...]
Doctor Who ebooks and a Monster Morpher!
It’s a Doctor Who-related double bill from me today, but then everyone loves a bit of Who, don’t they? First up, the lovely people at the BBC have made a selection of classic Doctor Who novels available to read online, or download to your ebook reader, should you possess such a gadget. Like I say, [...]
Scream Street: The Beginning
I’ve just found an old notebook that contained my first set of scribbles about the Scream Street series. Made around four years ago (October 2006), the notes show my early ideas for the characters and stories – most of which had changed a great deal by the time Walker Books acquired the series a year [...]
Stranger Than…
Hit our ‘Brilliant Books‘ tag and you’ll be confronted by an array of awesome reading. But one thing that struck me recently was that it’s almost all fiction. No big shock there I guess: we poor cave prisoners – I mean, OW, yes, all right, grateful guests – are all storytellers of one kind or [...]
At a guess…
It seems these days that when people describe books, they rarely say ‘Wow, this is totally original! I can’t think of anything to compare it to.’ Most of my favourite books of recent years remind me of something else that I’ve read or seen before. The Hunger Games reminded me of The Running Man. Gone [...]
Tommy Goes (Deeper) Into Hiding!
It should be a happy day. It really should. A brand new Scream Street book is published today – Scream Street 9: Terror of the Nightwatchman, with Scream Street 10: Rampage of the Goblins following shorty afterwards. So, I should be smiling. But I’m not. I’m scared, and I’ve found a darker than usual corner [...]
