FIND OUT by watching EGGHEADS on BBC2 at 6pm tomorrow (Fri 6 Jan). Will Ali Sparkes (front left) bring shame upon authorkind if she gets the Literature round? I couldn’t possibly tell you (they’ll send the Eggheads attack dogs if I do) but it’ll all be out there tomorrow teatime…
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One of my heroes
I saw the first reports on Twitter last night as I was finishing up the day’s writing: Russell Hoban has died. There have already been some fine things written about him. Here’s an obit in UK paper The Guardian. This one from his editor David Lloyd, is my favourite. Though his creativity remained as strong [...]
WORDY FUN FOR CHRISTMAS
Christmas. You know how it is. Mandatory family fun. Squabbling over who had the last strawberry creme out of the Quality Street tin, charades, damp Twiglets. Monopoly, cheese football fights, Twister… Why not do something wordily fun this Christmas? WORD & QUESTION!!! This picture was inspired by a very early poem concocted as a result [...]
Ta-Da!
At last! I’ve finally got around to starting my own blog: www.davidmelling.co.uk/blog Which means as well as posting stuff like this mad eye-balled idiot here on Trapped By Monsters… I might post stuff like this little chap… [...]
WOLF!
It has to be said I’m a slow reader…and my reading pile is waaay to high. So it’s taken me a while to get to WOLF by Tommy Donbavand. I’m happy to report that as we share the same dim, damp and depressing conditions here in the cave I get first dibs on any signed [...]
THE TOTALLY TERRIFYING THREE!
Look out for my STONKING new picture book and tell your CHUMS to SKIDADDLE down to your local bookshop and get one! (Well, there’s three words I’m not sure I’ve ever used before – strange I should do so now – can you guess what they are?
I’ve been busy!
If you’ve wondering why I’ve been quiet recently, it’s been on account of this: I’ve been locked in my cave editing like crazy and I’m pleased to say that I think I’ve created my best story yet. If you like action, thrills, spills and surprises, this story has them all. It’s gone along paths that [...]
